Gael Grand wrote:
>
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 09 November 2001 12:30
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Fwd: Please sign this PETITION
> >
> >
> > Dear Friend,
> > Please read this, sign it and forward it. There's more to these Taliban
> >chaps than you see on the news. Makes an eye-opening read.
> > Best, George
> >
> >
> >
> > Subject: Fwd: Please sign this PETITION
> > Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:02:32 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > This was recently featured on Oprah and she mentioned
> > this e-mail petition. If you decide not to forward
> > this, please
> > send it back to me with a note indicating such. This
> > is an
> > actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if you
> > drop the
> > line. Please take 3 minutes out of your life to do
> > your part.
> >
> > Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war
> > upon women. Since the Taliban took power in 1996,
> > women have had to wear burqua and have been beaten
> > and stoned in public for not having the proper attire,
> > even if this means simply not having the mesh covering
> > in front of their eyes. One woman was beaten to death
> > by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally
> > exposing her arm(!) while she was driving. Another was
> > stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a
> > man that was not a relative.
> >
> > Women are not allowed to work or even go out in
> > public without a male relative; professional women
> > such as professors, translators, doctors, lawyers,
> > artists and writers have been forced from their jobs
> > and restricted to their homes. Homes where a woman
> > is present must have their windows painted so that she
> > can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent
> > shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear
> > of their lives for the slightest misbehaviour.
> >
> > Because they cannot work, those without male relatives
> > or husbands are either starving to death or begging
> > the street, even if they hold Ph.D.s. At one of the
> > rare hospitals
> > for
> > women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies
> > lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their
> > burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, but
> > slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were
> > seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or
> > crying, most of them in fear. When what little
> > medication that is left finally runs out, one doctor
> > is considering leaving these women in front of the
> > president's residence as a form of protest.
> >
> > It is at the point where the term "human rights
> > violations" has become an understatement. Husbands
> > have the power of life and death over their women
> > relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob
> > has just as much right to stone or beat a woman,
> > often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or
> > offending them in the slightest way.
> >
> > Women enjoyed relative freedom: to work, to dress
> > generally as they wanted, and to drive and appear in
> > public alone until only 1996. Women who were once
> > educators or doctors
> > or simply used to basic human freedoms are now
> > severely restricted and treated as subhuman in the
> > name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not
> > their
> > tradition or 'culture,' but it is alien to them, and
> > it is
> > extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism
> > is the rule.
> >
> > Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence,
> > even if they are women in a Muslim country. If we can
> > threaten military force in Kosovo the name of human
> > rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of
> > the world can certainly express peaceful outrage at
> > the oppression, Murder and injustice committed
> > against women by the Taliban.
> >
> > STATEMENT:
> >
> > In signing this, we agree that the current treatment
> > of
> > women in Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE
> > and deserves action by the United Nations and that the
> > current situation overseas will not be tolerated.
> > Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and is
> > UNACCEPTABLE for women in 2000 and 2001 to be
> > treated as subhuman and as so much property. Equality
> > and
> > human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not a freedom
> > to be granted, whether one lives in Afghanistan or
> > elsewhere.
> > Directions
> > PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message. Sign
> > the bottom and forward it to everyone on your
> > distribution
> > lists. (including the person who sent it to you) If
> > you receive
> > this list with more than 300 names on it,
> > please e-mail a copy of it to:
> > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> >
> > Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate
> > and do not kill the petition, just return it to the
> > person who sent it to you.
> >
> > 1) Anne Archer, Los Angeles, CA
> > 2) Kelly Preston, Los Angeles, CA
> > 3) Eve Darling, Sheridan, OR
> > 4) Dawn Darling, Los Angeles, CA
> > 5) Bill Goode, Los Angeles, CA
> > 6) Salila Travers, Austin, TX
> > 7) Ed Long, London, England
> > 8) Andrew Heddle, England
> > 9) John Carlton
> > 10) Mairead Carlton
> > 11) David Gayler
> > 12) Racheal Pearson
> > 13) Barbara Blake
> > 14) Joanne Mc Cullagh
> > 15) Neil Martland, England
> > 16) Steve Tayles, England
> > 17) George Prall, Birmingham, England
> > 18) Gary Duxbury, Bolton, England
> > 19) Katie Duxbury, Bolton, England
> > 20) Gaël Grand, France
> >21) Frederick Pollack, USA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Gael Grand
> mobile in France: 0670871750, int: +33670871750
>
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