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When the Taliban regime fell last November, newspapers and television footage were filled with images of Afghan women dancing in the streets, going back to school, and most of all, throwing off their burqas??€”which implied that women were finally ready to show their faces in public and stop wearing the all-encompassing garment. Their freedom symbolized the freedom of all Afghan citizens from Taliban rule. Unfortunately, these pictures do not represent the realities that most Afghans face today...
Among Pakistan’s urban majority, headscarves—let alone the suffocating burqas??€”remain the exception. It is a society where, despite all the constraints endemic to poor, conservative cultures, women pilot 747s, run major corporations and become lawyers, judges and politicians. It is an overwhelmingly Muslim land (98 percent) where minorities still become cabinet ministers, supreme court justices and Nobel Prize winners. All this does not take away from the vast discrimination and injustice that exists, but the picture is far more complex than CNN reports would have you believe. The important reality is that...
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