Blog #11

Women in the Middle East have been taken advantage of for many years and equality doesn’t seem to be in sight any time soon. Twenty-year-old Mah Gul was beheaded by her mother in law and also a relative to her mother in law because of her refusal to prostitute herself. Police later reported that the woman’s throat was slashed and her head was not fully cut off. This incident happened in southwest Afghanistan near the Iranian border. Mah’s husband is a baker and had to go away for work. While her husband was away for work his mother forced her to sell her body to help make more money. In this region it is known for women to be raped, killed and forced into marriage in childhood, they are denied from obtaining an education and denied their sexual and reproductive rights. Many women, after being forced into marriage, are then forced into prostitution by their families and even their husbands. In this case Mah’s husband had nothing to do with her killing or force into prostitution. The constant inequality for women has become worse over the years under the Taliban. Many women want to get an education and go to school but the society they live in makes it hard for them to do so. The women get terrorized as they walk to school and there are laws that prevent women from publicly being seen without a male escort. If they are seen without a male escort they are publicly beat, so men tend not to escort them to school to keep them from getting an education.

 

cnns.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/18/afghan-woman-beheads-daughter-in-law-for-refusing-prostitution-police-say/?iref=obnetwork