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...streets, you would never know that these silent, shapeless forms, encased in these shrouds, have any views at all. But outside the earshot of men, the women are fierce, alive and opinionated. And when they shed their burkas, they turn out to be wearing brightly colored dresses. All three say they would prefer not to wear a burka or even a head scarf but fear they would be harassed. Zora, 28, says she has heard that when women go to Mecca on the hajj, the pilgrimage that all Muslims are enjoined to attempt at least once, they do so with...
...work ban extended to widows, who were left no recourse but to beg. In a nation with as many as a million widows--out of a population of just 20 million--that decree alone produced a silent disaster. Sabza Gul, 32, now begs at the Kabul bus station and makes about 50[cents] on a good day. Some years ago, when she was still living in a village north of the city, her husband went blind. The family became dependent on whatever money their son Humayoun, 17, could earn as a field worker. The fields were close to the occasional...
...biggest development in the case occurred two days ago, when Diana D. Brooks, Taubman’s former chief executive, testified as to her involvement in the scandal, saying that Taubman solicited her help and cautioned her to remain silent...
...hypocritical. Just as the deaths of 6,000 at the hands of international terrorists are wrong, isn’t this also true for the murders of leaders, doctors, security guards, nurses and patients? If pro-life activists value human life so much, then why are so many silent when it comes to violence branded in their name? Regardless of whether they are directly or indirectly associated with these extremists, pro-life activists across the country have to start taking responsibility for the climate of hate and fear that they have helped create in this country. Many pro-life organizations...
Other critics are less merciful. “It looks like what is happening is some sort of silent genocide,” Noam Chomsky wrote in a recent op-ed. Before the war, eight million Afganis were on the brink of starvation. The only thing keeping these people alive was the food rations provided by international NGOs and the United Nations World Food Program. But when the bombing began, these organizations were forced to abandon the eight million Afghanis who depended on them for their daily bread. Suppose the food drop operation was flawless and all 37,000 daily...