--- HELGA GOMES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But lets not get discouraged with the > 'Talibanisation of Goa' lets cheer the young women > who regardless of how cool or how moral infused > their clothes were, managed to bring back a gold > and a silver at the Asian Women's Chess > championship. Congratulations Bhakti Kulkarni, Ivana > Maria Furtado and Sweety Navnitbhai Patel. > Mario observes: > Helga, Perhaps you are unfamiliar enough with the Taliban, the most brutal, merciless and institutionally misogynist regime in recent history, that you can carelessly and cynically join in comparing the relatively benign stupidity of the bureaucrats in the Goa school administration with the Taliban. > The real Taliban prohibited girls from being educated, even in private, whipped women in the streets if their ankles showed, and beheaded women in the Kabul soccer stadium if they were caught in public with an unrelated male. If a woman was molested or raped it was she who was put to death. > Under the Taliban, Bhakti Kulkarni, Ivana Maria Furtado and Sweety Navnitbhai Patel would not be allowed to even show their faces in public, leave alone allowed to compete in the Asian Women's Chess Championship. > Therefore, I find the Taliban analogy in the Goan schoolgirl uniform fiasco even more absurd and inflammatory than the misguided policy itself. Can't we simply debate the policy without such overheated verbal histrionics? > There are school uniforms imposed on school girls and school boys the world over. Some make common sense, others don't. It often depends on a personal point of view. I find it curious that there are some who support the French prohibition of the hijab for French schoolgirls but rail against the prohibition of dresses and other western garb for Goan school girls. > It is up to the parents, with help from community activists like Goa Suraj, to protest the Goan mandate if they choose to, and I have no doubt that a solution acceptable to all sides will soon be found. >
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