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> Sent: 09 November 2001 12:30
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> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
Gael Grand
mobile in France: 0670871750, int: +33670871750
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