Friday, April 3, 2009

Taliban publicly lashes a woman in Pakistan; women's rights take a hit in Afghanistan

Part of me does not want to post this, because part of what makes this so horrible is the public element of it, meant to humiliate this woman.

Part of me wants to post this, because I feel like we should know, be reminded, and maybe see it with our own eyes to reinforce it. This is the part that wins today.



From Deadpan Thoughts via Global Voices

In other disheartening news for women's rights, New-Yok based Egyptian journalist and blogger Mona Eltahawy has a post decribing her disappointment with the Afghan president having signed a new law in February that will apparently legalize rape within marriage and bar women from leaving their homes without their husbands' permission.

Of course Islam as a religion is beautiful and respectful of women; it is extremists and perverters of the religion who feed into the idea that it is otherwise.

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