Hello,
I sent a long response to the Rev. off-list. However, briefly, what I said was the
following:
- Violence against women and children needs to get more attention.
- I was concerned about the Taliban before this.
- As someone who was sexually abused as a child, I really feel for those girls who
were assaulted.
- The US should not let past mistakes stand in the way of fighting evil today. When
you deny education and medical care and the opportunity to work to 1/2 the population,
that is evil. And again, there are real atrocities, such as the woman who had her
eyes gouged out and her ears and nose cut off. She is in Pakistan, where the Taliban
has a lot of support. The documentary showed that a peaceful demonstration by RAWA
(the Afghan women's group) turned violent when Taliban supporters threw tear gas at
the demonstrators.
by the way, I'd like to point out that I did say in my message that I regretted no one
had given the misery of the Afghan people any thought until the US was attacked.
Also, I was among those who said that attacking Muslim and/or Arab Americans was
totally unacceptable.
I honestly don't know why atrocities against women are greeted with a yawn by the rest
of the world. It's been that way through human history and it still is in too many
places.
Mary
