| Blogs > beyondfantasy3 > Many Perspectives of Attitude |
|
Women to the Rescue Crouching behind a wooden barrier, 27-year-old Sergeant Sara Delawar fires her M-4 rifle at a target showing the silhouette of a man, part of a training exercise for Afghan special forces. Anxious to defuse tensions stoked by foreign male soldiers raiding Afghans' homes at night in what is a conservative Muslim country, Afghanistan has begun training elite female troops to join Afghan male soldiers on operations. "Before we joined this unit, our operations were done by foreign troops and they did not know our culture. People were critical so we joined to help out," Delawar, a former policewoman in Jowzjan province, said. "I have already fought the Taliban. My comrades were martyred in fights with the Taliban and we have killed them too, but during the night raids I haven't fought insurgents yet." Fluent in four local languages, Delawar is one of only 12 female soldiers who has been trained to fight and conduct searches in what is an attempt to pay greater respect to cultural sensitivities. Surprise night raids in pursuit of militants have long stoked anti-Western sentiment in Afghanistan, with many locals seeing them as assaults on their privacy and on women's privacy in particular. In conservative southern areas of the country where the Taliban is strong, such raids have created even more ill will. On Sunday after months of tense negotiations, Afghanistan and the United States agreed that only Afghan forces would search residential homes or compounds. As well as seeking to assuage cultural sensitivities, the new strategy is aimed at lowering civilian casualties and shoring up President Hamid Karzai's popularity at a time when foreign combat troops are handing over to Afghan forces. "It's unacceptable for us to see male soldiers body-searching females. Men are not allowed to touch females," third-lieutenant Binazir, 24, said. "I'm proud to say that I'm here to serve my country side by side with my brothers. I'm proud that Afghan girls are here and I hope more girls join in order to provide better services for brothers and sisters in the battlefield and save lives." ( from news) _____________________________________ I think its great to see these women standing up against the oppressions and standing up against the dictations being imposed upon them. I think as this force grows, women will not only make big changes, they will eventually become to tear down all these rules imposed on women, including them having to cover themselves up except their eyes. it may take a bit of time to get to that point, but over-all they will embark on these things in the years ahead. They will result to be the ones who dismantle terrorist in their lands. Hooray for the Women... |
|||
|
You are probably correct. But I'd like to hope on the progress side. Your perspective is far more realistic, considering the depth and scope of the dogmas within that sectors religious programming. As a civilized world , we have much to achieve before we find out the realities of the existence of man and woman, as being both equal humans beings. Who by nature are born singularly and will die singularly as individuals. If that is perceived in the base of its realism, then we may each know that one does not control the other. We may also come to know, there is no ongoing of life for one without the other. Roles and formats for roles has and will continue to change as the ideologies of mankind continue to expand. Expanding brings many conflicts because people resist the flow of change. but resistance in the long span of life is basically futile, as life will without reluctance continue as an ever changing collective. Yet, the natural realism will prevail beyond any of mans programmatic concepts to try and control or contain. The innate things within the male and the female individual are in natural basics what they are, they will remain being what constitute male and what constitutes female. People may adopt many 'psychological modes, and people may be led into many 'psychological modes, by pleasure aims, pain avoidance as well as pain pursuits and consumptions by many formative addictive motivations. Even in social modeling, inclusive of religious indoctrinations, will continue to be many in format and many in merged formats as well as many within trying to extract themselves from formats, thus creating still formats. The level of success this change makes, has an unpredictable scope of what it may attain or become, but the fact of change that it exist, is in and of itself a success, from the previous models of complete like repressions.
| ||
4/15/2012 7:12 am |
cheers to bravery of some women.. time is really changing.
|
