Law That Takes Away Human Rights Of Shia Women Goes Into Effect In Afghanistan

http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2009/08/14/law-that-takes-away-human-rights-of-shia-women-goes-into-effect-in-afghanistan/


While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked about the rights of women in Africa, Shia women in Afghanistan have now legally become nothing more than sex slaves. Where is the outcry from the American government, or would that not be in our best interests?

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“The rights of Afghan women are being ripped up by powerful men who are using women as pawns in maneuvers to gain power,” said Adams. “These kinds of barbaric laws were supposed to have been relegated to the past with the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, yet Karzai has revived them and given them his official stamp of approval.”

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The law was designed in secret by a powerful and hard-line Shia leader, Ayatollah Asif Mohseni, and supported by conservative Shia leaders in parliament. Many women activists have accused Karzai of abandoning his previous moderate views on women’s rights to help him secure votes in the presidential election.
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I thought our troops were dying and being maimed to protect Afghan women

guess not

Michelle, have a talk with your husband

Needs his government to force his wife to have sex with him?

After all, it's The Right War™.