Re: Women Tents
To cover everything for women is very much Islamic, okay the Burqa might be an Afghan invention but it serves the same purpose as that which the Muslim women wore during the time of the Prophet (i.e. chadar), when they encountered unrelated men on the street they would draw their chadar over their faces as to not be seen by them.
It’s hard for an outsider to understand, I’m not an Afghan but my people share many values and norms with them and I don’t know of any woman who is unhappy about covering up, it’s a natural thing for them as it’s been practiced for centuries, women tell me without the burqa/chadar they feel unnatural, they say it feels naked and vulnerable.
In Islamic society interaction between post pubescent unrelated members of the opposite genders is only allowed in cases of necessity. In Afghanistan women and men both have their own societies, just as women are barred from male life men are barred from female life, men have their own social and recreation and women their own and the only people of the opposite gender they interact with are family.
Like a brother said as long as “the veil” was being observed the Taliban didn’t have any problems with women having careers, primary emphasis was put on bringing up her kids and family life but there was nothing wrong with honourable jobs if she could manage all her responsibilities, there was women in the police force, female farmers (helping in the fields) female doctors and nurses, female staff at girls schools, lady clerics for female only congregations. Our media with the help of Afghanistanis who are none ethnic-Afghans (as they hated the Taliban for political reasons) or Afghans of a lose moral character will tell you different, they’ll over magnify their negative points and cover up the positive ones, I’m not saying the Taliban were faultless surely they must have made mistakes, being humans it’s inevitable but their different sense of justice and the mistakes they made were misinterpreted and morphed.
I’m sure given the chance the Taliban would have provided even more opportunities for women to excel but because the very infrastructure of their country was in shambles due centuries of war, droughts and foreign sanctions, even the men (traditional breadwinners) had a very hard time trying to get a job let alone the women, or education all these critics going on about how Afghan girls weren’t allowed to go to school, that’s bullcrap, the girls weren’t denied education anymore than the boys, due to reason I’ve already mentioned there weren’t very many schools even for the boys, education is very important but at the time their country had more immediate needs, a lot improved during the rule of the Taliban and if our countries had given them a chance they could have done a lot more, now that they’re gone nobody not America nor the gay Afghanistani army can enforce law and order, drug trade is booming again, women are being driven into selling their bodies, homosexuality i.e. old men grooming prepubescent boys for sex is on the rise, innocent people are being persecuted in Afghanistan by members of the Northern Allegiance, the ethnic Afghans were disarmed by America so now they’ve got nothing to defend themselves, their women are being raped, men killed and nobody hears a thing about any of that.
But ah well I suppose it’s just easier to go with flow and accept everything the media throws at us than to bother to find out the truth for ourselves.