I am sorry but to me it is just hypocracy. To introduce a law that bans women from education and then circumvent that law by using you rmoney to send your daughter outside the country simply suggests hypocracy. If it is a law you agree with (which he must have, as he helped to introduce it) then why did he not abide by this law?
But then you have to ask why did they ban women's education dont you? what if the situation in pakistan was appropriate?
I take your point that it may look like hypocrisy but in actuality it might have been a point of practicality rather principle. I dont think you can judge his position without actually knowing how things were around him.
let me restate my position:
1. I'm not convinced that taliban banned women's education as there are anecdotal reports to the contrary.
2. "education" in a country like afghanistan is likely to be largely based on mosques / shiekhs (what is known as "kottab" or writers). Was that banned as well? I doubt it ...
3. Accepting it was banned, then why? it maybe that they did not have enough school places, the right segregation environment, roads security (what do you think the safety situation would have been like in a country that produce 80% of the world's poppy?), the correct syllabus ... etc. and yes, there is such a thing as harmful education.
I'm not saying they were right. They had a balance to make as there is absolutely nothing in Islam to ban women's from education. Governments do this all the time.
So do you feel any need to black out the windows of your home to stop prying eyes? Is there any evidence at all that the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) made his wives or the Muslm women live this way?
I know that the chamber of his wife (Aisha RAA) had a curtain to the door leading to the mosque.
Muslim women have a mindset where modesty becomes just natural. This rather reminds me of a time when my dad wants to open a window in our home and my mother objects because "she wants to feel comfortable". Now that taliban is out of power, do you think afghani women has thrown away their cloths? ... I doubt it.
So who in your book is an authority on what is Islamic?
Quran/Sunnah and ruligs of respectable scholars are ... politicians DEFINITLY not. I dont think that any one can say they were not muslims. They had their mistakes but were they muslims ? absolutely yes.
Nothing justifies dropping bombs on people, I am in no way attempting to defend the west or their actions. I am simply trying to understand where people stand on the issues of the taliban and theor oppressive treatment of women.
People will naturally root for the underdog especially within their own faith. I guess we will agree that the taliban have already paid quite heavily for any mistakes they made and in a grossly dispropotionate manner. I think that the taliban treatment of women is rather similar to the WMD issue -just a smoke screen for a different agenda-, except that people were more prepared to believe it.
I accept it was a war torn country and they had many issues to deal with however you also do not mention the hospital situation. Was it lack of resources that made them allow women to only visit one of the hospitals in Kabul (the one with no running water or medical equipment)? What do you believe is their reasoning behind not allowing women medical treatment unless they have the permission of their husband or father?
Numerous hospitals in Kabul had good doctors and medical equipment. Can you provide any evidence that it is better for a woman to die than to be in the same building with strange men or be treated be a male doctor if no female doctor is available?
Of course that leaves us with a problem, if women are banned from education then in a few short years there would be absolutely no female doctors, so who would treat sick women?
Dear sister I'm hearing all this for the first time. If you have a very negative view about the taliban then I dont really blame you if you believe in all this except I'd urge you to check your sources. All the points you made are sound.
Taliban -seen as the enemy- will never be presented in a balanced way in the current environment. Imagine the type of propaganda the red indians got during the time of colonisation of north America. I'd compare the current situation to that time. Say anything about the taliban and people will believe it as they are known to be inhuman aliens with necklaces of women's ears on their chests and their mouths have ugly brown teeth with dried children's blood on it ... every one knows that ... :angryred:
Cant remember who said that truth is the first victim of war ... always true I suppose. I invite you to read the words of Mr Quilliam, a British muslim convert in the 19th century.
An American explodes a bomb in the crowded streets of Constantinople and slays innocent women and children and , because he calls himself a Christian he is extolled in England as a hero and as a patriot! An Afghan fights for his fatherland in the Khyber Pass, and because he is a Muslim he is denounced as a traitor and a rebel, and his land is to be raided and his wives and children slain. Such is the British Christian logic at the end of the 19th Century in the diamond jubilee year of the reign of the Queen Empress.
Nothing changes !! :angryred:
http://www.mcb.org.uk/features/features.php?ann_id=139
