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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:04 PM Original message |
Is It A Holocaust Against Women & Girls What the Taliban Has Done and Is Doing? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. No. They just won't kill that many. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. i don't think it would be described as a holocaust as they aren't trying to wipe |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. Apartheid would be more apt. |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. That's why I ask the question. What word applies to what is going on there? |
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Kitty Herder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Perhaps none of the old words fit? |
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Liquorice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:51 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. You're right. There is no word that quite fits what is going on over there. It's |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 06:32 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Thank you, Liquorice. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Enslavement is what I call it. Women are locked up, their activities and choices restricted |
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Flaneur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
4. No. |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. It is not genocidal mass murder. In this you are correct. |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
5. It's more like institutionalized slavery than a holocaust |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Agreed |
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Habibi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 07:32 PM Response to Reply #5 |
25. Yes. Slavery is the word. |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. Terrorism with a goal of total subjugation |
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Truth Talks (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. Taliban vs Team USA |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. The Taliban's treachery against girls and women is not a right-wing myth. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. well,educate yourself. Really, it's not that hard. |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. "The Taliban" by Ahmad Rashid. |
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chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 09:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
26. That's actually ridiculous. |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
8. That image you have there? That's called murder. What they're doing to women and girls is murder. |
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Kitty Herder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. But it is not just murder. It is systematic. n/t |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 06:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Yes. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
13. We may think so, but they do not. In their eyes, women are chattel |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 06:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. By "they" you mean the men? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 07:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Yes. taliban men..and fundamentalist men, in general |
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sallylou666 (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-23-09 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. Violence Against Women--a world-wide issue, including in U.S. |
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