Abandoning women in Afghanistan
Want to see a real "war on women?" Wait until 2014 when U.S and NATO forces effectively leave Afghanistan to the whims of the bloodthirsty Taliban.
The savagery will make the alleged Republican sins against women — as politically motivated Democrats have charged — pale in comparison. The Taliban's strict enforcement of Sharia law, or Islamic law, has resulted in what can be described without exaggeration as a scourge against women.
The atrocities run from everyday humiliations such as the required wearing of turtle-shell burqas, to the denial of education and other rights, "honor" killings, public stonings, and rape.
In 1999, the United Nations detailed how the government enforced "official, widespread and systematic violations of the human rights of women."… Seguir leyendo »