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Run For Your Life 45-year-old Musa Sayed is on the run. Six years ago, Musa Sayed converted to Christianity. He was jailed for nine months without trial, for converting to Christianity. Apostasy is controversial in Muslim country Afghanistan, where the convert can be punished by death. Now In Europe So where is Musa Sayed now? According to reliable [...] Reason For Anxiety Among Afghan Women When the USA and the UK invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and toppled the Taliban, life for many Afghan women improved. It became easier for them to go to school and to work; some 24% of health-sector workers and 10% of the judiciary are female. However, this year is the 10th anniversary [...] Afghan Education Minister’s Claim About Change In Taliban Attitude Can it be true? That the Taliban have ended their opposition to education for Afghan women? Education For Girls In Afghanistan Under [...] Laura Bush’s Call In a commentary in the Washington Post, Laura Bush, a former US first lady, calls on Afghanistan’s leaders to defend women’s rights “with action and policy, not just lofty rhetoric”. She says that though some Afghan leaders have condemned the violence against the women there and have defended the rights of women, others have [...] A Practice Still Practised in Afghanistan There is an enduring practice in Afghanistan that seems rather odd to outsiders. This practice started because boys are more prized and valued than girls in Afghan society. It is the practice of dressing up young girls as boys. Bacha Posh – “Dressed Up as a Boy” Like most cultures in Asia, Afghan [...] ”You Burn Quran You Burn In Hell” September 11 this year is the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City and on the Pentagon. At a time when tension is running high over the controversial plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, along came the Dove World Outreach Center’s [...] Executed Without Trial A couple in Afghanistan was stoned to death last week by the Taliban for allegedly having an illicit sexual relationship. The couple was stoned in the village of Mullah Qali of the Dasht-e-Archi district in Taliban-dominated Kunduz province. The duo was detained after their families turned them in to the Taliban after they tried [...] Lashings for Child Brides Trying To Escape From Their Marriages Two adolescent Afghan girls who had been forced into marriages with elderly men ran away disguised as boys because their husbands beat them when they tried to resist consummation of their marriages. However, after two days of fleeing across rough roads and mountain passes, Khadija Rasoul, aged [...] |
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