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Re: myrrh bait
Obviously no argument from me about the 'delights' of any society governed by such a strict, literal reading of a text that's only ever been the product of bronze age (or in Islam's case, iron age) ignorance and barbarity.
That Washington installed Karzai, a former member of the moujahadeen with his intimate contacts to Bush Snr and the CIA should explain why women's rights aren't exactly high on the agenda here. Despite the 2002 rodeo-rhetoric about freedom being on the march and women walking the streets liberated, did we honestly expect any different? Because the growth of the moujahadeen is the last significant point at which it all changed direction, isn't it?
Women's rights in Afghanistan have been on a continuous downward path ever since the late 70s-early 80s, when Afghanistan did have a government committed to them: equal education, equal access to health provisions, the abolition of the veil, the introduction of women into politics, etc. A government that was genuinely trying to drag the country into the (then) 20th century.
Remind me what we did about that?
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