Alberto wrote: > There must be some reason why they want all their women > hidden from the top of the head to the bottom of the > feet. Maybe if they were able to look at them, they wouldn�t > want to have taliban-kids...
I ascribe it to a desire for control, in all seriousness. >From what I've seen of Afghan women, they're every bit as beautiful or unattractive (and every thing in between) as women anywhere else in the world. The same goes for the men, but I really don't like heavy beards on men. Not my bag at all. The hadith prescribing concealment of women is not interpreted that literally anywhere else in the world except Saudi Arabia, a nation with a regime only slightly less oppressive to women than the Taliban. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots." - Thomas Jefferson, 1787
