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You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Yeah, women used to have to wear black burqas in Afghanistan. Now that we've freed them, they wear white burqas.
Afghan women in white burqas visit the Hazrat-i Ali shrine in Mazar-i-Sharif, the centre of Afghan New Year’s or Nauruz celebrations, on March 20, 2010. The pre-Islamic festival is celebrated annually as people from across the war-torn country gather in ancient Balkh province’s capital in northern Afghanistan which holds a shrine attributed to the religion’s fourth Calif, Hazrat-i Ali.
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Voice of America: Afghans Continue Protests Over US Quran Burning Afghans protested for a fourth day against last month's burning of a Quran in the United States. Authorities says hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators scuffled with police in Mehterlam,...
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Cuckoo Parade - Afghanistan:at Least Seven Killed During Koran Burning Protest At U.n. Office In Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan official says seven people have been killed at a U.N. office in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when a Koran burning protest turned violent.Demonstrators stormed the U.N. office Friday, opening fire on guards and setting...
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The Netherlands Bans The Burqa
(Thanks to Najistani for sending us the link): ... the cabinet agreed that burqas would be banned for government workers and at schools. On Friday, the government is expected to announce that burqas will also be banned from public transport. And for...
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"genuine Muslims"
The Sick Backwards World We Live In. Quite right:What about their treatment of women? Few people know that the Taliban had opened several centers to train women to be doctors. As for the burqas, the women of Afghanistan continued to dressed the way they...
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Ban The Burqa
If we really want to get serious about this war, we need to understand that Islam needs to fundamentally change. After World War II, we banned certain tenets of the state-religion of Japan; Shinto-Buddhism. We decreed, unilaterally, that no more would...
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