>Dear Helen,
>I applaud your sincerity! However the petition you forwarded to poetryetc is
>an old internet hoax. You can read further about the hoax at About.com, the
>link above.
>best to you
>:fp
The bothersome thing about this particular hoax is that the position of
women in Afghanistan under the Taliban is indeed untenable, especially in
a society in which many of the men have been killed in war, leaving women
to be the sole breadwinners for their families.
Alison
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