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To: lorne who wrote (46946)	9/4/2004 3:06:02 PM
From: Suma	Respond to of 81568

I watch the Sundance and IFC channels a lot and the other night watched a documentary of an Islamic woman who was executed in the back of the head for having murdered her husband. It was done in the square with an audience.It happened in Afghanistan. The camera team traced her life as much as possible: Sold for marriage at 13.. bore 7 children,the second wife of the man who owned her. Abused, beaten as were the children by the husband. Some thought it was the eldest daughter who had killed the father and that the mother had taken the blame. The film generated a trip through various parts of the country to find her children who had been taken in by the uncle. What it did was provide a glimpse of the life that the women in that Country face. If anyone thinks that the TALIBAN has been defeated there and that women now have freedoms they should watch this film.Women who dare not wear the burka have acid thrown into their faces, are whipped as they pass by. The women in the camera crew had to wear burka's to hide the fact that they were foreigners. When one view the pathetic existence of these people. When one sees how differently they live from anything that is conceptual to us...then one might understand the underlying fanaticism that prevails. Certainly it is a male dominated country. Women have not power as yet and very few are educated. One can only sit and ponder the way these people live and how they can be democratized. It is another planet. The beheadings they have done are not unusual. To us they are but they are their way of executing and in fact I thought that Sabrina, kneeling in the square with her robes and Burka still on would be beheaded and was prepared to hide my eyes. Instead, they just shot her in the back of the head. Two shots. SHe lay on the ground, unattended. Oh, she did not know that she was to be killed. She thought that she was to be whipped... When they treat their own like this how can it be any different for the what they do elsewhere.