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Subject:

Re: Please sign this PETITION

From:

Gael Grand <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:24:43 GMT

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>>  -----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
>
>
>
>
>
>
Gael Grand
mobile in France: 0670871750, int: +33670871750

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