If You Were A Puritanical Member Of The Taliban...

[sandyRoe]

... would you sooner see NGOs and charity groups pack their traps and leave Afghanistan rather than see women working for them?
They might think the hunger and illness which could follow is a small price to pay to protect the virtue of Afghan womanhood.

[andy-hughes]

I'm not, so I can't imagine the thought processes of someone who is.

[douglas9401]

I can't look at it from the very distant past as they do but at some point I'd have to stop banging my head on a pile of rubble and just walk away.

There is obviously no middle ground.

[andy-hughes]

douglas - // I can't look at it from the very distant past as they do but at some point I'd have to stop banging my head on a pile of rubble and just walk away.

There is obviously no middle ground. //

I think trying to put yourself into the mindset of anyone anywhere, is virtually impossible, but to attempt it with someone whose upbringing and attitudes are so fundamentally (!) different from mine, would be beyond my very best efforts at understanding.

[youngmafbog]

Yes I would. Rightly or wrongly its the way of thinking there.

I'm not convinced the West is that brilliant sometimes so perhaps we need to leave them alone and not interfere no matter how abhorrent it may appear to us?

[sandyRoe]

Yes, I fear virtuous starvation and infants dying of childhood diseases would seem, to some of them, a small price to pay to protect the core if their religion.

[naomi24]

Of course. No question about it.

[fender62]

goes to show life is cheap to them, ie women lives, bit like telling a stoneage man this fluid will save your family...

[Peter Pedant]

If you were a Puritan member of Parliament....
god I thought this was AB !
no it is me on a bad sight day

Taliban, I dont think they care much except for their interpretation of the day for the Quran.

The video of the Iranian pouring yog over the leddy.
She WAS wearing a chador but not one he liked !

[davebro]

damn savages...

[royfromaus]

Islam = misogyny

And yet we seem determined to embrace it in every possible way.

[andy-hughes]

Speak for yourself Roy, I'm not 'determined to embrace it' in the slightest, thank you.