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To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7378)	1/22/2014 10:45:38 AM
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When women lived free in Afghanistan: Pictures show how they were once able to study, wear skirts and mix freely with men - before civil war, invasion and the Taliban enslaved them Photos byMohammad Qayoumi show the free life Afghan women enjoyed Kabul-born Qayoumi went on to become an engineering professor in the U.S Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001 was condemned for its oppression of women By Ted Thornhill PUBLISHED: 12:31 GMT, 22 January 2014 \| UPDATED: 13:44 GMT, 22 January 2014 80 shares 6 View comments Women in Afghanistan were brutally repressed under Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001 – but a series of fascinating old photographs show how women there used to live freely. The Taliban were condemned around the world for their treatment of women. Under their rule women were forbidden to be educated, publicly beaten for showing disobedience and forced to wear burqas – a garment that covers the whole body, apart from the eyes. +12 Women browse in a Kabul record store +12 Women in a biology class at Kabul University However, Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi, who was born in Kabul in Afghanistan, and went on to become an engineering professor at San Jose State University, wrote a photo-essay book called Once Upon A Time in Afghanistan that documented how life before the Taliban used to very different for women. More... Not all British high streets have changed beyond recognition: The businesses that are proud to have stood the test of time Inside India’s trafficking gangs: Lifting the lid on the criminals who steal girls as young as NINE and sell them into the sex trade His photographs from the 1950s, 60s and 70s show how they used to be afforded university-level education, browse record shops in short skirts and study science. Indeed a State Department report from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 2001 explains how women were given the vote in the 1920s, were granted equality in the Afghan constitution in the 1960s and by the early 1990s formed 70 per cent of school teachers, 50 per cent of government workers and in Kabul, 40 per cent of doctors. +12 Women nurses tend to babies in a hospital infant ward +12 A laboratory at a Vaccine Research Center +12 Afghan women being taught biology +12 Kabul university students chat in-between classes Mr Qayoumi said: ‘Remembering Afghanistan’s hopeful past only makes its present misery seem more tragic. But it is important to know that disorder, terrorism, and violence against schools that educate girls are not inevitable. I want to show Afghanistan’s youth of today how their parents and grandparents really lived.’ Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai recently endorsed a code of conduct that would prohibit many of the scenes shown in these photographs. It states that women are not allowed to travel without a male guardian and must not mingle with strange men in public places such as schools, markets and offices. +12 Happier times: Afghan women taking part in a Scout scheme +12 The modern transport of the day: Female bus passengers in Kabul +12 Afghanis mingle freely in a cinema Wife-beating is only prohibited if there is no 'Shariah-compliant reason', it said. Mr Karzai insisted the document was in keeping with Islam and did not restrict women. 'It is the Shariah law of all Muslims and all Afghans,' he said. +12 Nurses arrive at the house of an elderly villager +12 Mothers and children pictured having fun in a city playground +12 Women look on as a nurse at a hospital shows them how to bathe a baby Read more: dailymail.co.uk credit monkey man

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7378)	1/23/2014 9:02:49 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

The Heroism of Wendy Davis ............................................................... rightwingnews.com .....Point No. 1: Davis’ family wasn’t working-class. Her father owned a sandwich shop and a dinner theater, which puts Davis solidly into middle-class land. Point No. 2: No one who works at MSNBC would know this, but everyone whose parents run a family business starts work at age 14, if not sooner. Point No. 3: Her parents were separated, but that is not the commonly accepted meaning of “single mother.” Point No. 4: As for being a single mother at age 19 — she wasn’t a “single mother” in the traditional sense, either. She was married at age 18, had a child at 19 and divorced her first husband, a construction worker, at 21. (He couldn’t afford tuition at Harvard.) So she got married young? That isn’t a hard-luck story. Well into the 1950s, nearly half of all first-born children were born to married women under the age of 20. But Wendy Davis’ harrowing nightmare of poverty and sacrifice wasn’t over yet. Just a few years after her first divorce, Wendy was on the make, asking to date Jeff Davis, a rich lawyer 13 years her senior, who frequented her father’s dinner club. In short order, they married and had a child together. The next thing Jeff Davis knew, he was paying off her college tuition, raising their kids by himself and taking out a loan to send her to Harvard Law School. (Feminists rushed to the stores to buy the shoes Davis wore during her famous filibuster. I’d like the shoes she was wearing when she met her sugar daddy.) Then Wendy left her kids with the sugar daddy in Texas — even the daughter from her first marriage — while she attended Harvard Law. Slater says Davis’ kids lived with Jeff Davis in Texas while she attended law school. Wendy Davis claims her girls lived with her during her first year of law school. Let’s say that’s true. Why not the other two years? And what was the matter with the University of Texas Law School? Sorry, MSNBC, I know you want to fixate on how many months Davis spent in the trailer park and her precise age when the first divorce went through. And that would be an incredibly stupid thing for conservatives to obsess on, if they were, in fact, obsessing on it. But I’m still stuck on her leaving her kids behind while she headed off to a law school 1,500 miles away. The reason Wendy Davis’ apocryphal story was impressive is that single mothers have to run a household, take care of kids and provide for a family all by themselves. But Wendy was neither supporting her kids, nor raising them. If someone else is taking care of your kids and paying your tuition, that’s not amazing. Hey — maybe Jeff Davis should run for governor! He’s the one who raised two kids, including a stepdaughter, while holding down a job and paying for his wife’s law school. There’s a hard-luck story! Mr. Davis told the Dallas Morning News that Wendy dumped him as soon as he had finished paying off her Harvard Law School loan. “It was ironic,” he said. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.” In his defense, a lot of people are confused about the meaning of “ironic.” That’s not “ironic.” Rather, it’s what we call: “entirely predictable.” It’s ironic — my car stopped running right after I ran out of gas. It’s ironic — my house was broken into, and the next thing I knew all my valuables were missing. It’s ironic — I was punched in the face right before my nose broke. In his petition for divorce, Mr. Davis accused his wife of adultery. The court made no finding on infidelity, but awarded him full custodyof their underage child and ordered Wendy to pay child support. Wendy boasted to the Dallas Morning News: “I very willingly, as part of my divorce settlement, paid child support.” Would a divorced dad get a medal for saying that? In response to Wayne Slater’s faux-”expose,” naturally Davis put out a statement denouncing … her probable Republican opponent, Greg Abbott. Again, Slater wrote the story. But Davis blathered on, blaming Abbott for the Dallas Morning News story and complaining that he hasn’t “walked a day in my shoes.” About that she’s certainly right. Greg Abbott could never walk a day in her shoes or anyone else’s. He’s a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. I guess Wendy could teach him a lot about suffering. Davis also said these attacks “won’t work, because my story is the story of millions of Texas women …” Yes, for example, Anna Nicole Smith. Though at least Smith had the decency not to ask for a paid education. credit brumar