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Article: When foreign intervention is justified women under the Taliban.
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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"It's like having a flower, or a rose. You water it and keep it at home for yourself, to look at it and smell it. It is not supposed to be taken out of the house to be smelled."
--Syed Ghaisuddin,
Taliban Minister of Education, when asked why women need to be confined to the home.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights--except in those countries where cultural differences dictate that a human being born a female is neither free nor equal and has neither dignity nor rights. Recent world events have brought the issue of human and particularly women's rights to the forefront, necessitating all of us to reevaluate the use of ...