3/2/2013
12:25
In Afghanistan, a mother bravely campaigns for president
This
article was a about a mother by the name of Fawzia Koofi who campaigns for
president in Afghanistan. The article talks about how the woman has two
children who are 10 and 12 and telling them that she may not making it back
home and that they should continue with school and live independently. The Taliban been trying to kill Fawzia Koofi
before she left for her trip she was told that there was a bomb under her car
but she went anyway and came home safely. Koofi has been on many trips in which the Taliban
has tried to kill her. She recalls an instance when she went to another country
and the Taliban started shooting at her car with her sister and her daughters
in the car. Her security fired back and they were able to escape alive. Fawzia Koofi talks about how has a child she
should have been dead. When she was born her mother found out that she was a girl
and the doctors wrapped her in a blanket and put her outside in the heat and
felt that nature would take its course.
Finally someone brought the baby in and the mother fell in love with her
and had that bond up until the Taliban killed her mother and father. The
article then goes in to more details about how she has had a hard life and the
many things that she has faced growing up. Despise all the things that has
happen to Fawzia Koofi she continues to fight forth to become president.
When reading
the article I began to think immediately about patriarchy and how men are seen
as superior in this country. I feel that
this was a story of how Fawzia Koofi has defied all odds and despise all the
things that she went through she continues to press forward. Even though she
has lost a lot of the people that she was close to she still continues to fight
for what she believes in. I feel that the important thing to take away from
this is that women in other countries experience much harsher sexism and that
despise all odds they continue to fight for what they believe in. In my
personal opinion I feel that something should be done about the issue. It pains me that I have to see what women
have to go in other countries and how we live in freedom without a care.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/world/fawzia-koofi-afghanistan-president
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