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Originally Posted by ken0042
Once again; I question what is normal; and what is the extreme. In our news last week; they revisited the case of the 15 year old girl who gave birth out of wedlock and threw the baby in the trash.
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To a lot of citizen's over there who's religeous slant is very fundemental, honor killings are normal, and justified under the eyes of thier Mullah and god, right or wrong.
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I am apprehensive to judge an entire culture based on the fantastic news stories we receive.
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I agree with this, however in the case of Afghanistan we have to look at that culture as a tribal or horse base culture for the most part that hasn't changed in hundreds of years, so the horrible things that we hear about to them are normal and justified. I think the majority of the Afghan population lives outside of the city central while Liberalism (not in our terms) has to some extent grown.
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Now- having said that I have heard from humanitarians about some of the terrible things they have witnessed over their; like a lack of women's rights. To me; this may be no more than an Afgan parallel to them hearing of a group called the KKK burning a man on a cross because of the amount of melanin in the person's skin.
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For the most part your right except for the last part. The KKK in North America and the radical racist groups are considered to be a lunatic fringe, and a tiny minority to the rest of society. However in Afghanistan, Non Reformed fundamentalist Islam is considered to be the norm and is backed by thier justice system, and members of thier government.
I remember reading that to the courts over there, a womans life and value and testimony is worth exactly half of a mans life and value and testimony.
Which is funny because Islam recognized womans rights and woman's sufferage long before the Christians did.