Demand for Women to join Afghan police

 

Common now Omar, I know full well as you do that Islam, and many Islamic countries are not as they are often portrayed. We both are muslims, and know enough to know that the Qu'ran gurantees rights to male and female, however, do not tell me that you question that there are subervient Afghan women. That much is actually obvious, the closing of schools by the Taliban for women, among other of their rather ludicrous "reforms" are enough proof that Afghan women largerly have been targeted to perform some sort of "taliban" Islamic view of the ideal woman, which in their backward view is to more or less stfu, sit at home, cook, throw out some babies, and put on a blanket before walking out, I am sure that most would chose rather to walk without that hinderance than to wear it. Conditioning human beings to accept unfair terms is not Islamic, and that is what the Taliban did, attempted to condition the males, and the females into accepting female subserviency through checking, i.e. their little morality police, public beatings, and teaching the younger males to follow their lead. What happened there was a tragedy not to be undermined, and what happened there is a big reason why Islam is looked down upon because the average person will associate Islam with what is happening in this "Islamic" state of Afghanistan.

 

I tried a Punjabi girl; for a while, but she turned out to be just as bad. I suspect the rest of Pakistan is the same story.

 

Subservient women exist only in the imaginations of some bored oriental fiction writer dreaming of a harem.

 

 

If so then I apologize Omar.

 

Women police officers are essential. That is true. Just as women doctors are essential in Afghan society, perhaps even more so. But a war zone is no place for a woman to be doing frontline jobs. It's as simple as that. It all depends on how exposed they are to the violence. Hundreds of police officers are killed in Afghanistan each month, so the same parameters don't apply as for Western society. Women doctors in Afghanistan would be completely rational at this stage, police officers are simply acceptable targets of the Taliban.

 

And no, I'm not getting into a p-ing contest over this. Those are my thoughts, and reasons. I'm not too bothered about scoring brownie points over this. G'nite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I disagree with you completely! There are numerous fine examples of women performing the same front line tasks as efficiently as men. In WWII Yugoslavia for example Tito's Partisans included female fights as well, who were as capable of carrying a gun, and perfoming tasks just as their male counterparts. Russia had a whole group of female snipers...