When women lived FREE in Afghanistan: Pictures show how they were once able to study, wear skirts and mix freely with men - before civil war, invasion and the Taliban enslaved them

This picture of Afghan women attending university in 1967 could

have been taken anywhere in the Western world
UK Mail  "Women in Afghanistan were brutally repressed under Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001 – but a series of fascinating old photographs show how women there used to live freely.

"The Taliban were condemned around the world for their treatment of women.

"Under their rule they were forbidden to be educated, publicly beaten for showing disobedience and forced to wear burqas – a garment that covers the whole body, apart from the eyes."

Women browse in a Kabul record store
.... Mr Karzai insisted the document was in keeping with Islam and did not restrict women.

" 'It is the Shariah law of all Muslims and all Afghans,' he said."

Polio on the rise in radical Muslim countries    ... "As we wring our hands (at least the UN workers do) over the terrible backwardness of so much of the Muslim world and wonder why the Middle East is in a state of "failure to thrive," we must acknowledge that no effort from the outside can fix things. Change will come, as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once noted, "when they become countries, not causes" (militant Islam)."

Pakistan Launches New Islamically Correct Anti-Polio Campaign    "How backward is the Taliban? One measure of barbarity would be the resurgence of polio in Pakistan because of the insistence of the jihadists that preventive vaccine is un-Islamic and that public health workers who vaccinate children should be murdered. At least a dozen people have been killed in recent months for trying to protect kids from a crippling disease."

 

Below, relatives of a murdered polio-prevention worker are upset by the sight of her body at a Karachi morgue.