The Afghan state and the local village and family of a 10-year old - TopicsExpress



          

The Afghan state and the local village and family of a 10-year old girl raped so much she nearly lost her life, conspire to promote an honour killing of her. The discourse of this article suggests that Western forces should be seen as the saviours of girls and women, even though prior to the USA deliberately boosting misogynist, fundamentalist Islamic forces in Afghanistan as a counterweight to a working peoples revolution, female rights there were far stronger. Also noteworthy that the accusations by some Afghans, that womens rights activists are Americans, seem to mirror the accusations made of many Western feminists, of their being imperialist/right-wing. All this obscures the natural alliance between imperialist and misogynist forces that continues to oppress women around the world, including in Afghanistan.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 10:28:04 +0000

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