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The Women in Afghanistan Petition

This petition explains to its readers how the Taliban government in Afghanistan is treating women and asks them to add their name to the list at the bottom of the message and send the list back to an e-mail address at Brandeis University.

Is it true?

Most of the facts the message mentioned are true. Women are treated very badly in Afghanistan.

Then what's wrong with it?

The problem with this petition is that the person who started the petition was not prepared for the consequences. A few weeks after the petition was started, her e-mail account was flooded with hundreds of thousands of messages. Because of this, her account was closed and all messages were discarded.

Some flaws

The petition asked for intervention by the U.S. to stop the mistreatment of women in Afghanistan. Some people pointed out to us that this is not a job for the U.S., but for the U.N.

The message also compared the situation of women in Afghanistan with the situation of jews in pre-holocaust Poland. This is not very fair towards Poland because all European nations had strong anti-semitic sentiments at that time, not just Poland.

I still want to help the women in Afghanistan

There are many other ways you can help. For more information, please visit the page on this subject at the Feminist Majority Foundation:

http://www.feminist.org/action/action50.html


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