(93)    Sun 15 Jun 97 10:15
By: Judith Bandsma
To: All
Re: Theocracy in Action
St:
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For those who would like to see what this country would be like under
a fundamentalist theocracy (meaning those who really want to see it happen)
I refer you to http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/3340.

Especially for women under theocratic rule. This post and the following
one are what I've gotten from one of the women fighting there.

>
>                             WOMEN WORKERS BEATEN UP IN KABUL
>
> Kabul, (AFP): The Taliban officials beat up five Afghan women workers
> employed by a foreign  aid agency in Kabul, sources here said Sunday.
>
> The women who worked for the CARF International Agency were
traveling in
> the agency's car on Saturday when they were stopped by the officials
of
> the Taliban's  department for preventing vice and fostering virtue.
>
> The officials of the department known as religious police forced
them out
> of their vehicles and roughed them up, presumbly for working with a
> foreign agency, they said.
>
> None of them were seriously injured, they said.
>
> The women had documents permitting them to continue working in relief
> sector, the sources said.
>
> A ranking official of the so-called religious police department using
> public address system was heard shouting: "Down with foreign
> institutions. Down with women who work there."
>
> CARE has suspended its program of relief work for thousands of
> poverty-stricken widows following the incident which has triggered
new
> concern among the aid community in Kabul, the sources said.
>
> "We are going to protest to the Taliban for the act which was
committed
> contrary to their assurances," a foreign aid official said.
>
>                   The Daily MUSLIM, May 26,1997
>

... Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you throw-up!
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