by Indigo Blu

Created on: May 10, 2009   Last Updated: May 13, 2009

The plight of the Afghan women is the business of everyone in this world. To know that these women and girls are raped, beaten, tortured and killed is horrible. However, to turn a blind eye to it all and act like nothing is happening is deplorable. We all live in this world. Why should this not be a concern of ours? Yes, women are fighting over in Afghanistan for education and to be given some form of humanity. However, that is not enough. These women risk their lives on an HOURLY basis, and if the rest of the world has the resources to assist these women and girls, why not do so?

I hope no one thinks that the Taliban is this new group that just came about in 2000, when we first started hearing about them. This cruelty has been happening for decades. Was it not the U.S. that originally armed the Taliban with weapons upon the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union? Now, it is with those weapons that women and girls are dying. Of course it's our business!

What's even worse is from a woman's point of view. A girl looks to her father and her brother to protect her. A woman looks to her husband to love and protect her, and nurtures and teaches her son...her offspring. How is it that the men and boys closest to these women are the ones they have to be scared of? They cannot trust their uncles, nephews, grandfathers and grandsons because at ANY given moment, they will be beaten and/or killed. What kind of a life is that? This is not the world's problem?

Darfur is the world's problem. Haiti is the world's problem. Yet, these matters don't get the attention they deserve to give the assistance needed. However, Saddam Hussein was told to be the world's problem, and troops brought down the Hussein reign in very quick time. How can the plight of these women NOT be the world's problem? It kills me how the industrialized countries like to pick and choose the battles that will best benefit their wallets.

I would also like to state that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are just very warped Muslim fundamentalist groups. They do not represent Islam. Would you say that the Ku Klux Klan and the FLDS represent Christianity? I would hope not. These are groups that twist and turn doctrine and dogma to mean what they want them to mean. Let us not judge a belief by horrible groups and acts that use these religions as nothing more than shields and excuses for them to do the inhumane things they do.

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