Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Kudos to RAWA
Current mood: productive
I've been pursuing this bookathon and I'm not doing so bad with my streak. I had read End Game, a book on the fall of Srebrenica and the massacre of thousands by Serbian army in a damned UN safe area. Just proves what the UN can do. Maybe I shouldn't say that, considering my qualification is negative 100% compared to the prodigies of the U.Nations. But how could the UN ignore an estimate 7000 be slaughtered when dutch peacekeepers were supposed ot protect it? Decent book, a little insipid in the beginning but end is decent. Blood and gore always gets the crowd. :-x
So then I went on to my next book on RAWA, the Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association (called Veild courage) It's FASCINATING how women like these poverty stricken, society-degraded, yet determined women were able to rise up through clandestine means and surmount the fundamentalists. Praise to the founder, Meena and its advocates. You would never believe its supporters- membres of the very own Taliban backed them up! In secret that is, they wouldn't want to be killed for such a heretical crime.
Meena's become my new inspiration, and i'm hoping to look more into RAWA, see if i could help promote the awarenes because they still are in need. Women continue to be second-class citizens if that in third world countries including AFghanistan and tribals like Pashtun, Peshawar in pakistan as well.
But what reallys irritates me is the thin boundary one can cross and misinterpret when it comes to Society Vs. Culture. It's apparents that the Taliban are a bunch of bellicose islamic fundamentalists with their turbans wrapped up too tight. But who's to blame? The Northern Alliance? Invasion of Soviets? Islam?
Anything, but Islam. I'm telling you. For goodness sake, the religion's own name means Peace. It's believers greet another with the word "peace be with you" and end with the same. Since the revelations given to Rasul (s), the last prophet of Islam, women were hte first to be given the civil rights that many in other countries and generations fought for, for until the 19th amendment came about and was actually enforced.
True Islam is justified. Taliban should be crucified.
Currently reading:
Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
By CHERYL BENARD
Release date: By 09 April, 2002
Kudos to RAWA
Current mood: productive
I've been pursuing this bookathon and I'm not doing so bad with my streak. I had read End Game, a book on the fall of Srebrenica and the massacre of thousands by Serbian army in a damned UN safe area. Just proves what the UN can do. Maybe I shouldn't say that, considering my qualification is negative 100% compared to the prodigies of the U.Nations. But how could the UN ignore an estimate 7000 be slaughtered when dutch peacekeepers were supposed ot protect it? Decent book, a little insipid in the beginning but end is decent. Blood and gore always gets the crowd. :-x
So then I went on to my next book on RAWA, the Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association (called Veild courage) It's FASCINATING how women like these poverty stricken, society-degraded, yet determined women were able to rise up through clandestine means and surmount the fundamentalists. Praise to the founder, Meena and its advocates. You would never believe its supporters- membres of the very own Taliban backed them up! In secret that is, they wouldn't want to be killed for such a heretical crime.
Meena's become my new inspiration, and i'm hoping to look more into RAWA, see if i could help promote the awarenes because they still are in need. Women continue to be second-class citizens if that in third world countries including AFghanistan and tribals like Pashtun, Peshawar in pakistan as well.
But what reallys irritates me is the thin boundary one can cross and misinterpret when it comes to Society Vs. Culture. It's apparents that the Taliban are a bunch of bellicose islamic fundamentalists with their turbans wrapped up too tight. But who's to blame? The Northern Alliance? Invasion of Soviets? Islam?
Anything, but Islam. I'm telling you. For goodness sake, the religion's own name means Peace. It's believers greet another with the word "peace be with you" and end with the same. Since the revelations given to Rasul (s), the last prophet of Islam, women were hte first to be given the civil rights that many in other countries and generations fought for, for until the 19th amendment came about and was actually enforced.
True Islam is justified. Taliban should be crucified.
Currently reading:
Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
By CHERYL BENARD
Release date: By 09 April, 2002
posted by The Patient Cactus @ 2/01/2005 01:19:00 PM
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