Word: burqas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Burqa?," Your PEOPLE item on Afghan-born beauty contestant Vida Samadzai [Nov. 10]: The Afghan supreme court's condemnation of Samadzai is outrageous. But just how far has she come when she has traded her burqa for a bikini in the male fantasyland of a Miss Earth pageant? MARY LAUER Atlanta...
...says “women’s rights” more than being judged for your ability to keep your breasts taut while you parade down a catwalk. Women’s rights activists should urge the oppressed Afghan women to not only “burn the burqa!” but to also “show us your boobs...
...comes down to choice. What was so oppressive and tyrannical about the Taliban regime was that they enforced the burqa as a woman’s public “uniform.” In most other Muslim societies, however, a woman chooses to wear a hijab (headdress) or not. For those who do, it is often an act of self-assertion, and freedom from the leery eyes of men. Rather than feel oppressed, most women feel secure and confident...
...reports, the atmosphere is a microcosm of the worst excesses of the previous regime. "The women were glad the Taliban era was over," writes Seierstad. "They could play music, they could dance, paint their toenails?as long as no one saw them and they could hide under the burqa...
...tyrannical system that has changed little since the fall of the Taliban, are complex and disturbingly unforgettable. Neither Seierstad's closed world of the Khan household nor Shah's war-rent Afghanistan make for comfortable reading, but both books offer a rare glimpse of life beneath the burqa in a land that is too often portrayed as little more than a dusty battlefield...