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...what other nations may think, in the end it will be up to the Afghans to find a new balance of genders in their society. Progress is likely to be slow, particularly outside the educated elites of Kabul. Even there it will be subject to the complex forces of coercion, family pressure and tradition. Mohammad Halim, who runs one of Kabul's best-known burka shops, says he has no plans to offer a wider variety of clothing. "It will only be in Kabul where women will take off their burkas. Elsewhere women will continue wearing them. This...
...what other nations may think, in the end it will be up to the Afghans to find a new balance of genders in their society. Progress is likely to be slow, particularly outside the educated elites of Kabul. Even there it will be subject to the complex forces of coercion, family pressure and tradition. Mohammad Halim, who runs one of Kabul's best-known burka shops, says he has no plans to offer a wider variety of clothing. "It will only be in Kabul where women will take off their burkas. Elsewhere women will continue wearing them. This...
...often hard-hitting discussion of the issue of violence in political conflict. Addressing an audience for whom one man's terrorist is often another's freedom fighter, Bush stressed the urgency of a global consensus on the conduct of political conflict. "We choose lawful change and civil disagreement over coercion, subversion and chaos," he said. "In this world, there are good causes and bad causes, and we may disagree on where that line is drawn. Yet, there is no such thing as a good terrorist. No national aspiration, no remembered wrong can ever justify the deliberate murder of the innocent...
...movement bin Laden has hijacked. I think that the millions of people who believe like Osama bin Laden that Palestinians are oppressed by Israel and that sanctions should be lifted against Iraq—but who despise his methodology—are also frustrated by a system of global coercion they feel is undemocratic. America has brushed off the democratic process of the U.N. We have strong-armed our allies into having our way, and we have ignored dissent in the world. We have pursued our national interest vigorously, with no concern for the national interest of others...
This, however, should be done with the utmost esteem for the right of people to unbiased information. The respect for civil rights and liberties (freedom of information among them) is a hallmark of our society as opposed to fundamentalist societies, intensely engaged in indoctrination and coercion of their people. We should not necessarily ask these governments to censor bin Laden’s messages, but instead, we should ask them to uphold free speech, so that truth can win out among the people in a fair...