Not that I care what a Nazi-supporting, Klan-supporting a$$hole who approves of priests raping little boys thinks. (Those all being things you haven't started threads about and therefore, by your own stated standard, things that you support.)
Women's rights in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Throughout the 20th century, Afghanistan continued to be a country dominated by tribes and men continued to have ultimate control over women. In 1973 the state was declared a republic and throughout the 1970s and 1980s a communist group called the
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) took over and attempted to once again reform the marriage laws, women's health laws, and encouraged women's education. During this time it made significant advances towards modernization.
[6] Minorities of women were able to hold jobs as scientists, teachers, doctors, and civil servants and had a considerable amount of freedom with significant educational opportunities.
[7] The majority of women, however, lived in poverty and were excluded from these opportunities. In 1977, the
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) was founded by
Meena Keshwar Kamal in Kabul but her office was moved to
Quetta in neighboring Pakistan where she was assassinated in 1987.
[8] RAWA still operates in the region of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
[9]
You can thank Jimmy Carter for fuking that progression up, zero points from for doing it so if you are looking for a leader of the bad Muslims that is where you should be looking.
How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Zbigniew Brzezinski:
How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
Brzezinski: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
Now, don't go getting all sane on me, Megs. It'll scatter my datter and make all my numbers go random.
The "Israel" comment was a dig, and a fairly gentle one, I think.
But the good news is that Grievous makes you seem all sane, intellectual, and moderate by comparison.
And polite. I heard that's a real big thing for you Canadians.
Never fear. Who leaked my Friday moves? Damn I hate it when that happens.
It was gentle, thank you, and so was my reply.
First real scarey thing I've heard you say, but as a bot program I'm honored. Maybe my boss will take you under His wing.