View the interview with Robert Greenwald, very interesting.
"Robert Greenwald on The Ed Show. June 11, 2009"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UX7Xn9Zp0M
Again, I don't think the Taliban were or are as bad as the northern shmucks and the U.S., but as Robert Greewald infers, the Taliban also aren't saints, certainly not when it comes to women's rights anyway. At least, however, they do guarantee rule such that a woman who is abused will see her abuser punished; unlike the northern shmucks, who often are the abusers, and the US, which doesn't care, anyway.
It's a problematic country because there's a "little" catching up to do, but the Taliban at least ensure personal security for women. More is needed, but at least the Taliban provide this and it is actually much; like a difference between life and death. As long as we live, there's some hope for achieving betterment. Once we're dead, we're simply dead.
I have faith that if done correctly, with no hegemony, etcetera, then the Taliban could be brought to wake up about women's rights and cease to fear women as if they're so superior that to empower them would mean males' demise. I'm male and certainly have no problem with women as bosses, say; as long as they're fair. If they're not fair, then they'll get my reaction and it may well differ from my reaction towards males, for I may be more gentle with women bosses; but there'll be reaction.
The Christian churches, the RCC anyway, long was oppressive, ... towards women's rights. When I was a child, women still had to wear a hat of some sort(s) when attending church ceremonies, Mass, .... Women had to have their heads covered? Why? Were their heads full of lice? No, they weren't. So why require that women wear head covering and not men?
That sort of mentality still exists within Christian churches of the west; one way or another. So we can't really blame the Taliban, although they also need to wake up and evolve.
If the Taliban did that, then they'd have a highly irreproachable government. And it wouldn't be difficult to make the improvements I refer to.
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View the interview with Robert Greenwald, very interesting.
"Robert Greenwald on The Ed Show. June 11, 2009"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UX7Xn9Zp0M
Again, I don't think the Taliban were or are as bad as the northern shmucks and the U.S., but as Robert Greewald infers, the Taliban also aren't saints, certainly not when it comes to women's rights anyway. At least, however, they do guarantee rule such that a woman who is abused will see her abuser punished; unlike the northern shmucks, who often are the abusers, and the US, which doesn't care, anyway.
It's a problematic country because there's a "little" catching up to do, but the Taliban at least ensure personal security for women. More is needed, but at least the Taliban provide this and it is actually much; like a difference between life and death. As long as we live, there's some hope for achieving betterment. Once we're dead, we're simply dead.
I have faith that if done correctly, with no hegemony, etcetera, then the Taliban could be brought to wake up about women's rights and cease to fear women as if they're so superior that to empower them would mean males' demise. I'm male and certainly have no problem with women as bosses, say; as long as they're fair. If they're not fair, then they'll get my reaction and it may well differ from my reaction towards males, for I may be more gentle with women bosses; but there'll be reaction.
The Christian churches, the RCC anyway, long was oppressive, ... towards women's rights. When I was a child, women still had to wear a hat of some sort(s) when attending church ceremonies, Mass, .... Women had to have their heads covered? Why? Were their heads full of lice? No, they weren't. So why require that women wear head covering and not men?
That sort of mentality still exists within Christian churches of the west; one way or another. So we can't really blame the Taliban, although they also need to wake up and evolve.
If the Taliban did that, then they'd have a highly irreproachable government. And it wouldn't be difficult to make the improvements I refer to.
The U.S. doesn't care about fairness though.