Quote of the Week!

 Quote of the Week!




"Sania Mirza,an Indian professional tennis player,A former doubles world No.1,having won six Grand Slam titles in her career and earning surpassing $7 Million,net worth aggregating to INR 170 Crores,having named in Times magazine's 2016 list of 100 most influential people in the World and is a Padma Bhushan awardee.A group of Muslim clerics had issued a religious diktat demanding that Sania Mirza cover up during matches,saying that her skirts and T-shirts were "un-Islamic" and "corrupting.Sania,refused to comment on the edict.She has achieved this name,fame and glorious life by showing her talent not her legs.Lucky having born in India,Had she been born in Taliban ruled Afghanistan,her net worth would have been nothing less than7 children!"

-Tejinder Kamboj
           (1940-20??)

Background  this Quote is Gender Policies of Taliban:

"The Quran, the holiest book in Islam, indicates that men and women are spiritual equals.The Quran 4:124'states,'If any do deeds of righteousness be they male or female and have faith, they will enter Heaven,and not the least injustice will be done to them".

But Taliban believe that a woman has no right except producing children


Afghan women wearing the burqa

From the age of eight onward, girls in Afghanistan were not allowed to be in direct contact with males other than a close "blood relative", husband, or in-law Other restrictions for women were:

  • Women should not appear in the streets without a blood relative or without wearing a burqa.
  • Women should not wear high-heeled shoes as no man should hear a woman's footsteps lest it excite him.
  • Women must not speak loudly in public as no stranger should hear a woman's voice.
  • All ground and first-floor residential windows should be painted over or screened to prevent women from being visible from the street.
  • Photographing, filming and displaying pictures of females in newspapers, books, shops or the home was banned.
  • The modification of any place names that included the word "women".For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden"
  • Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses.
  • Ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind.
  • women are chattel(Tangible personal property) living lives of unremitting labor, valued by men solely for sexual pleasure and reproductive services.

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