Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Subhuman in Afghanistan
Zoe Brain

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/09/subhuman-in-afghanistan.html

From the New York Times, the obverse view of the parlous situation regarding women in Afghanistan, which I'd blogged about in a previous post. As I said then, this is "what happens when a Patriarchal society become Pathological".

    Six-year-old Mehran Rafaat is like many girls her age. She likes to be the center of attention. She is often frustrated when things do not go her way. Like her three older sisters, she is eager to discover the world outside the family's apartment in their middle-class neighborhood of Kabul.