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sv-DHARm OF A CULTURE:....IS IT A sv-DHARm OF A CULTURE TO INTERFERE IN ANOTHER CULTURE?......Afghan women says No, No, No.....
Posted by Vishva News Reporter on April 14, 2009 |
Hamida Hasani, left, and Keshwar
Haidary say they “do not want total freedom” for women but limited
rights within Islam.
The Kabul University architecture students agreed
that
western women who have no experience of hunger and war
cannot
understand what is most important to fight for. |
IN
kli-yug
IT BECOMES PROGRESSIVLEY
DIFFICULT TO UPHOLD sv-DHARm.....
THIS IS SEEN IN TODAY'S KNOWLEDGE-SHARING NEWS STORY OF
SUFFERING IN AFGHANISTAN TRHOUGH
THOUGHTS, SPEECH AND PHYSICAL ACTIONS OF
AFGHANS AND OUTSIDERS....
THE NEWS STORY HILITES:
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- Young women attending Kabul University expressed
surprise and bewilderment at the debate raging in Canada and Europe over
a proposed law that seems to allow men from the Shiite Hazara minority
in Afghanistan to sexually enslave their wives and imprison them in their homes......
Hasani and two Hazara girlfriends, Laila Saberi and Keshwar Haidary, who
were walking together across from the main entrance to the university
after class, were emphatic that the sole role in Afghanistan of NATO
nations was “to provide better security. Nothing else.”
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- But the quote under the photo above and in the
news story on the next page from women in Afghanistan contradicts the
concerns of western civilization....including the following
said by Shapera Azzizulah, 41, a married Tajik Sunni pharmacist:
“But westerners want to change Afghanistan for their benefit, not for
ours. They have a bad view of our culture. Some of our women imitate
their clothes and their ways. Our freedom must come within Islam.”
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vEDik TAKE ON THE NEWS....
(Contributed
by chMpk misTRii
of
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada...as part of his sharing of life knowledge
study in his
vaanpRsthaa-aaSHRm
which began on April 19, 2007.......)
As per the complete corpus of knowledge
of Sciences of Life and Creation called
vED in
sNskRUt language the following is the
hilite of living by DHARm
by all creations in their individual life and existing
in harmony with their fellow diverse and infinite number of creations:
-
DHARm is the entire set of universal laws which
forms the foundation of the designs of all creations that humans can see
and not see.....the designs include provision of all that is required by
creations to take birth and evolve in each life journey through
childhood to adulthood till death and potential for progressive
evolution and survival for infinite generations of lineages of all
created....
- There is
sv-DHARm meaning individual lifestyle living laws
for each individual for its own existence in the midst of all the rest
of creation.....and these
sv-DHARm are different for each of the
4-aaSHRm
(4-life-journey stages)
of a life-journey beginning with
bRH'mchaari-aaSHRm from birth to attaining
adulthood.... followed by
gRUHsth-aaSHRm of married life till one's
first-born son gets married.... followed by
vaanpRsthaa-aaSHRm when one retires
from the lifestyle of the
gRUHsth-aaSHRm and devotes life through study of
vED to
understand what, why and how of all that happened in one's life in the
previous two aaSHRm
lived..... and lastly transiting around the age of 69 to 75 years into
the lifestyle of sNyaas-aaSHRm
wherein one lives with the continuing study of
vED but
continuing to live retired from entire life but critically on reflecting
learning the life wisdom gained in
vaanpRsthaa-aaSHRm so that one can
share that wisdom with those who wish to learn that wisdom and also
doing continual
BHk'ti of the
Creator
for receiving the
kRUpaa (Grace) from the
Creator of
living in future infinite life-travels of kARm-fl and/or as
kaaRy-saaDHin
by the life wisdom gained and not breaking the laws of
DHARm....
- In both of the above items... in the knowledge of
DHARm it
is fundamental DHARm
law
that
one should not cause in any of one's fellow creations pain or injury of
thought, speech and physical actions through one's thoughts, speech and
physical actions....
- DHARm,
sv-DHARm and svaa-aDHikaar
also has all laws required for complete life functioning
under mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, governance,
economy, conflicts from individual issues to national wars, and all
aspects of life we experience in all the
4 -aaSHRm.....(svaa-aDHikaar
means
rights and duties thereof of each individual creation within which the
individual must live life and which prohibits inter-individual
interference based on the laws of
DHARm and
sv-DHARm)
The above basics of DHARm
will empower anybody to understand what is happening in Afghanistan but
most important is to understand whether one is living by
sv-DHARm
in one's own life because one makes a community...communities make towns
and cities which makes provinces and states which makes a nation....and
each nation living by sv-DHARm
will not cause the Afghanistan issues.....
(If you wish to discuss/input in any part of the
vEDik take above and/or
share your life wisdom on the news item please click on the
POST A
COMMENT button in the header of this news item and write away
as much as you wish..OR if
you wish to contact chMpk misTRii
and/or publish your sharing on this
website then please email by clicking
here.....
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And now for you to critically study the above in the full news item titled
"BACK OFF ON MARITAL LAW & WEST SHOULD NOT GET INVOLVED IN AFGHAN
NATION'S CUTURAL AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS SAYS AFGHAN WOMEN"......please
click on the next line.....
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Back off on marital law: say Afghan women
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West should not get involved
in AFGHAN nation’s cultural and religious affairs, female university students
say...
Edmonton Journal:
14 Apr 2009: Kabul: Mathew Fisher, Canwest News Service
At the same time, young women attending Kabul University expressed
surprise and bewilderment at the debate raging in Canada and Europe over
a proposed law that seems to allow men from the Shiite Hazara minority
to sexually enslave their wives and imprison them in their homes.
The nearly unanimous view on the campus — arguably the most progressive
institution in Afghanistan — was that the West should not involve itself
in the country’s cultural and religious affairs.
“This is not a good law. Women should be allowed to do what they want,”
said Hamida Hasani, 18, a Hazara architecture student at Kabul
University. She said she was familiar with the controversial
legislation, which President Hamid Karzai has pledged to urgently review
in the face of strong complaints from western governments.
“But we do not want total freedom. We wanted it to be limited and to be
within Islam.”
Told of the furor the proposed law has caused in Canada and elsewhere,
and about the murder of women’s activist and Kandahar provincial council
member Sitara Achakzai on Sunday, Hasani said the problem of women’s
rights in Afghanistan belongs to Afghan women — no one else.
“They don’t know anything about us and our problems,” she said. “If they
faced what we have faced with hunger and war, they’d realize what is
most important to fight for here. Before they come here they should . .
. experience our difficulties.”
No female or male students at Kabul University except Hasani were aware
of the pending Shia family legislation or of Achakzai’s murder by
Taliban gunmen in Kandahar City.
It’s not surprising that few Afghans know about the Shia legislation
“because public awareness of any legislation before Parliament is very
low,” said Fauzia Kofi, 32, a wife and mother of two and a women’s
rights campaigner who represents the Badakhshan constituency.
“This new Shia law got very little attention anywhere until it appeared
in the Guardian and became a big international story. It is still not a
big domestic story.
“Shia women do not understand the implications of this law because they
regard this as a cultural issue that is linked to religion, whereas I
believe there is a difference between culture and religion.”
Hasani and two Hazara girlfriends, Laila Saberi and Keshwar Haidary, who
were walking together across from the main entrance to the university
after class, were emphatic that the sole role in Afghanistan of NATO
nations was “to provide better security. Nothing else.”
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Afghanistan’s Parliament debated ways Monday to protect female
politicians from assassination.
This opinion frustrated Kofi, who had her personal bodyguard doubled
from four to eight by the government Monday because of Achakzai’s murder
and recent threats by insurgents to kidnap her.
“NATO is here to fight terror, but if you do not protect democracy and
human rights we may not end up with terrorism but with extremism, which
is just as bad,” she said, minutes after condemning Achakzai’s murder in
Parliament. “If you speak of human rights or women rights in Afghanistan
you get accused of having converted to Christianity.”
Nevertheless, the consensus among the students at a coffee shop popular
with the university crowd was that, bad as the proposed law might be,
it’s none of NATO’s business.
“This law is not something that Karzai should sign because there must be
mutual agreement within a marriage, but what westerners have to realize
is that it is much better for us than it was before when the Taliban
behaved so badly towards us,” said Shapera Azzizulah, 41, a married
Tajik Sunni pharmacist who had dropped by for a cup of coffee after
picking up a copy of her university degree.
“Under the Taliban I was forced to wear a burka and my sister was beaten
once on her feet for only showing her eyes. Now I don’t wear a burka, so
that is progress.
“That does not mean that I am happy with everything at all. I am very
concerned about men here who have sexual intercourse with very young
girls. These men should be sentenced to die. If a couple of them were
executed it would be a lesson to all the bad men.”
Picking at a plate of french fries, Fahima Riosi, an 18-year-old Tajik
Sunni student of Russian literature, complained in Afghanistan’s
singsong Farsi dialect of “night letters” being received at the hostel
for female students that she lived in that threatened to destroy the
building and harm its residents if it was not closed.
“I am so scared that when I go to bed I can’t sleep,” she confided as
her roommate, Andesha Sadeet, nodded in agreement.
Like Azzizulah and the three young Hazara students, Riosi and Sadeet
said their fathers had initially opposed them going to university, but
finally relented when they insisted.
“There is change in Afghanistan today,” Riosi said. “There is respect
for us if we are educated or if we work.
“But westerners want to change Afghanistan for their benefit, not for
ours. They have a bad view of our culture. Some of our women imitate
their clothes and their ways. Our freedom must come within Islam.”
Sadeet added: “I don’t want to see the faces of the Taliban again, but I
do not want our culture to change. It is right that we should not go out
without our families’ permission. I would not want it to be any other
way.” |
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