True, the Taliban have their own ideas about how societies claiming to be Islam should be run. They have their own ideas of justice. I would like to go to my nearby mosque – which, alas, I haven't visited in years – when I feel like it and not at the point of a gun. I would like to keep my beard the way I please and not how someone else tells me. I would like the girls' schools in my neighbourhood to remain open. And I would want no violence in the name of religion.
We Reject this kind of Islam where women are treated as animals in name of culture and religion
34-year old Sehr Jan, an Afghan refugee, died in childbirth on October 8 at Jalozai Camp near Peshawar, the capital of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) bordering Afghanistan. On October 6, 19-year old Laila Jan gave birth to a stillborn baby in the same Camp. Sehr was the tenth mother to perish in childbirth, whereas Laila's baby was the 53rd victim of infant mortality since August 30 when the Islamist government of NWFP - Muttehida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) - banned male doctors and technicians from carrying out ultrasound examinations and using electrocardiographs (ECG) on female patients.
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True, the Taliban have their own ideas about how societies claiming to be Islam should be run. They have their own ideas of justice. I would like to go to my nearby mosque – which, alas, I haven't visited in years – when I feel like it and not at the point of a gun. I would like to keep my beard the way I please and not how someone else tells me. I would like the girls' schools in my neighbourhood to remain open. And I would want no violence in the name of religion.
We Reject this kind of Islam where women are treated as animals in name of culture and religion
34-year old Sehr Jan, an Afghan refugee, died in childbirth on October 8 at Jalozai Camp near Peshawar, the capital of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) bordering Afghanistan. On October 6, 19-year old Laila Jan gave birth to a stillborn baby in the same Camp.
Sehr was the tenth mother to perish in childbirth, whereas Laila's baby was the 53rd victim of infant mortality since August 30 when the Islamist government of NWFP - Muttehida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) - banned male doctors and technicians from carrying out ultrasound examinations and using electrocardiographs (ECG) on female patients.
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