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Afghanistan After The
American, British forces leave, experts are suggesting that the Taliban won't be able to wrest back control, i wonder...
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We can only hope and pray that everything pans out for the better. Because if it doesn't, the loss of every soldier to have died out there will have been in vain.
14:06 Mon 27th Jan 2014
Emmie, I'm not defending the Taliban, but the fact is they were a popular movement because they were prepared to take on the warlords and the gangsters particularly in the countryside
Much as we in the west would like them to embrace our concepts of freedom, equality and democracy that is, unfortunately, a long, long way off and no amount of military intervention is going to change that
Much as we in the west would like them to embrace our concepts of freedom, equality and democracy that is, unfortunately, a long, long way off and no amount of military intervention is going to change that
emmie...you are right, of course...my apologies. I was getting my uncivilised, uneducated and stupid people and places mixed up. But are the Taliban and Al-Qaeda not singing from the same hymnbook ( or whatever Islam used instead) ?
You have made some very good points about the way women were treated and continue to be treated by these religious extremists. I can remember an edition of Question Time a few years ago, when some chap from the UN was on and he said that hardly any children were immunised against the usual childhood diseases in Afghanistan, but within a few months of the West going into the country, nearly all had been. Clean water, education and access to modern medicine are the very least that the Afghani people should be demanding from their rulers, whoever they are.
You have made some very good points about the way women were treated and continue to be treated by these religious extremists. I can remember an edition of Question Time a few years ago, when some chap from the UN was on and he said that hardly any children were immunised against the usual childhood diseases in Afghanistan, but within a few months of the West going into the country, nearly all had been. Clean water, education and access to modern medicine are the very least that the Afghani people should be demanding from their rulers, whoever they are.
The irony in that, AOG, is that, if Muslims were all as extreme as the Taleban, there would only be male doctors to examine the women since no woman would be allowed the education to become one.
Are there not 'ordinary' British women who prefer to be examined, at least intimately, by a female doctor ? It may be that , using the NHS , it's 'male or nothing' but assuming they had free choice ? It wouldn't strike me as an eccentric wish, whatever the patient's religion.
Are there not 'ordinary' British women who prefer to be examined, at least intimately, by a female doctor ? It may be that , using the NHS , it's 'male or nothing' but assuming they had free choice ? It wouldn't strike me as an eccentric wish, whatever the patient's religion.
Incidentally, just how far behind us , in Britain, are some Muslims ? Our first woman doctor was in 1865, Girton College opened as the initial college to admit women for degrees in 1869, moving to Cambridge in 1973; married women's property belonged to their husbands until 1882; the first woman barrister wasn't until 1923, and so on. Not all that far behind in some respects, it seems.
unlike us, many of these countries are going backwards, we at least have equality, gay rights, sexual freedom, choice of own partners, education for all, not just for boys, men. Seeing so many women in the capital who wear the burqua, and often as not veiled, i do wonder how these women fare in our society.