Afghan women protest about the 'sex every four days' law

[MannyMoeAndJack]

Good for them, because it can't be easy to protest if you're a woman in Afghanistan:

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,515980,00.html

very brave

Full of admiration for them. Only wish our spineless govt - EU and UK - were doing more to support them, rather than helping the thugs and misogynists.

If the report is accurate, then it's a little depressing to read that, 'In the end, more women demonstrated in favor of the law than against it' - makes you wonder what pressures these women are under to support such a law...

It does beg the question; just what have we achieved in Afghanistan if this kind of law can still get passed? I mean, I thought the Taliban had been ousted from power, but this is just as archaic and oppressive as the laws that they put in place, and is one step on the slippery slope back to the way things were. The law needs to be quashed on a human rights basis, it's just horrific. Those poor women.

www.rawa.org

That website is interesting, I've looked at it before - some of the photos are truly terrible.

I wonder if the situation for women will ever change; I struggle to see how the men will ever change their world-view, given that they are so strongly influenced by their religious views. So, surely until the men yield even a little, then the situation will not improve - short of outsider intervention (again)?