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...question the sincerity and strength of faith of both the Promise Keepers and the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan? But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Obviously, many of the Promise Keepers members feel castrated. Where do these feelings of impotence come from? Can they stem from the fragmentation of the family, the downgrading and elimination of jobs, employment and retirement insecurity, dependency on wives as co-breadwinners and the polarizing effects brought about by radical feminists who are using their much needed movement to galvanize hatred toward all males? BERNARD WISSER Alkmaar, the Netherlands...
...TALIBAN CRACKS DOWN ON WOMEN...
...treatment of women by the ultra-extremist authorities of Afghanistan's Taliban [WORLD, Oct. 13] is among the worst human rights abuses of the century. The U.S. must take some of the blame. We supported the Afghan "freedom fighters" in their war against the Soviet Union. A good start at restitution would be the imposition of sanctions against Afghanistan, the kind that finally toppled South African apartheid. And since the Taliban forbids foreign-aid workers to offer assistance to women, U.N. aid ought to be halted in areas held by this vicious regime. I fear, however, that women are still...
From the day they marched into Kabul, the Taliban's adherents have sought to eradicate women from public life. In a land where the women have had to work while the men fought, the regime has barred females from taking any job outside the home or even leaving their houses without a male relative to accompany them. Girls have been thrown out of school. Foreign-aid agencies have been forbidden to offer any of their services or assistance directly to females...
Today Afghan women cannot even expect proper medical care. Three weeks ago, the Taliban decreed that female patients could no longer be treated at any of the main hospitals in Kabul and would be completely separated from male patients and medical personnel. We discovered that sick women are being sent to a crumbling old building that has no windowpanes, no running water, no proper operating room and barely enough electricity to power lightbulbs. The patients are tended by a meager female-only staff...