The Afghan people will win - part 3

Just as women under the Taliban had few if any life choices, the exact same conditions exist in the post-Taliban, western installed puppet government.  Under either repressive system, women are forced to make do with the hand they've been dealt.  If it means that an activist for women's rights, if this is what she was, is forced to work with, meet with, and beg to a puppet government for the slightest glimmer of hope, then no fault should be found in it.  To equate reported activities on behalf of long suffering, oppressed human beings who are seeking out the barest means of survival with the actions of a corrupt, oppressive puppet regime is a fallacy, and a revolting one at that.  While it's true that we have little to go on for information both about the woman or her activities, it's thin gruel as well to just say that she was a collaborator.

Unionist,

The fact that Achakzai had no internet references prior to her murder could be an indication that she was a strong advocate for Afghan women's rights. The fact that after her murder our sold out mainstream media is "selling" this message to the Western plebs means that they are trying to form public opinion to justify further escalating the West's military engagement in Afghanistan.

Notice, that mainstream North America didn't cover Malalai Joya either. Democracy Now!, PBS, student unions and universities invited her to give speeches in forums when she visited Canada and America in 2006. The Cons and the had nothing to do with her, only the NDP.

I listened to CBC radio, the information they had was from remaining relatives living in Germany and Canada. CBC radio's As It Happens had an interview with an Afghan MP who, along with his wife, were close friends.

Now, whether these people are legitimate and are who they claim to be or are employees of a marketing firm and we are all the victims of our government and our commercial societies' corporate spin - like the "Kuwaiti" woman who "witnessed" Iraqi soldiers dumping babies out of incubators in the 1990 invasion of Kuwait - I don't know.

Unionist wrote:

Webgear wrote:

They were/are of the same cloth as Malalai Joya and other members of RAWA.

All the other members? Some of the other members? What cloth is that - spending 20 years in exile, and then planning an open-ended trip to Canada while waiting to see what the upcoming "elections" produce?

Malalai Joya has been threatened with violent rape and murder by Northern Alliance commanders in Karzai's government as well as the Taliban. Ms Joya and Afghan supporters were responsible for prodding Karzai to fire a former Taliban official and who was a member of Karzai's government. Misogyny and extreme violations of women's basic rights were also tactics used by US-backed and trained rightwing death squads in Central America throughout the 1980s and 90s and continuing to a certain degree in countries like Guatemala and El Salvador today. Women's rights tend to be associated with true democracy and leftwing pinko agendas as far as US hawks and Brits are concerned.

I dont imagine very many Afghan women would want to draw unnecessary attention to themselves. Malalai Joya is an especially courageous woman. She could have taken refuge in Europe or Canada but is choosing to oppose the US proxies and Taliban representing an overall menace to democracy and basic human rights in Afghanistan.

These are all US-backed war criminals, drug barons, and theocratic feudalists whove resumed what has been an ongoing Darwinian battle to the finish among themselves since the 1990s. US hawks have a distinguished and notorious history of dealing with the scum of the earth in destabilizing countries and basically getting what they want. As Malalai Joya said once before,  "from the fying pan into the fire" is not a real choice for Afghans. Not really.

i don't know anything about the Afghan woman who was murdered, but i must say it was disgusting to see Karzai's brother's face on the news, making like he was bemoaning her death.  He's partly responsible himself, one of the drug-running crowd that thrives on the country's pain, along with the other warlords and taliban misogynists.

It's nice that the CAF can use this latest meaningless death to demonstrate how progressive the Canadian army is. From Unionist's link:

Quote:

Paul downplayed Blais' gender, saying the Canadian army has come a long way over the last 15 years.

"Right now you can see women serving in every type of environment," Paul said. "Those women are showing a lot of courage. They are here standing shoulder to shoulder with all the men in the whole battle group."

Everyone is considered part of the team no matter their gender, ethnicity or language, he said.

It's just sick.

Yeah, they must be thinking "No sense bemoaning Karine Blais' death too; it would just create more pressure for ending this unwinnable war of invasion... Let's just talk about this Achakzai woman."