The Taliban are an extremist sect forcing its own standard not on those who agree with it, but on those who don't.
Would you be happy if you had been a doctor or lawyer or university student leading a normal, happy life as a Muslim woman, and suddenly been, by a bunch of armed fundamentalist loonies, forbidden to work, attend school, leave your house without a male relative, or show any part of your body on pain of death or mutilation or beatings? If you had to paint your windows so no passing male might see you? Wear silent shoes so you couldn't be heard?
What if you were a woman with a PhD without a male relative or husband to support you? Would you be "happy" starving or begging for food because you were not allowed to work?
No, you would feel as the Muslim women feel. In record numbers they are being admitted to mental institutions and committing suicide.
Husbands have the power of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh. In fact, for offending them in any way.
Joe, this is not Muslim tradition.
BTW, you obviously don't know anything about the social bases for FGM, but the information is easily available if you want to find it. |
