Kenya Satchell
April 15, 2009
11:35 P.M.
Three hundred Afghan women endured stones, jeers and threats to march through Kabul today demanding a measure of equal rights. The women were chased and insulted as “whores” by a mob of men and women three times as large. The women were protesting a new law, applying only to Shiites that obliges women to sleep with their husbands on demand and bars them from leaving the home without their husbands’ permission. Polls show that men and women alike in Afghanistan mostly don’t believe in equal rights, but women are a bit more likely to support gender equality than men. People in the cities are far more sympathetic to equal rights, but the women living in the countryside would have never been able to leave their homes. People are impressed by the courage of these women, but some worry about the possible backlash.
I wrote about these Shiite women and this awful law in my last blog. I was rather disturbed to see that women were throwing stones along with the men! That must be rather disturbing to have one group of women who don’t want to change, and another group of women who would potentially get stoned to death for equality. I’m sure this makes it hard to get a change in government because the card of “women are satisfied with our laws” can be played due to the women that are content with allowing men to treat them as less than rather than equal to. I guess you can’t expect everyone in the world to catch up with the new millennium, but to be stoned is a bit much!
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/three-cheers-for-afghan-women/
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I also wrote about this article last week, and I was happy to see that there has been some action from women themselves in Afghanistan, especially in the face of danger to their lives. I think the response to the law is extremely critical in terms of its overall acceptance, and both the people of Afghanistan and the international community must object to it for anything to change.
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