Monday, December 21, 2009

Afghan Women still suffering....

"Shout it aloud, do not hold back....Raise your voice like a trumpet.
-Isaiah 58:1
The US-installed Afghan government passed a law in February, 2009, which applies to Afghanistan's Shia population (10-15 percent of the Afghan people) that explicitly legalizes rape in marriage by banning women from refusing to have sex with their husbands. That law also prevents women from working, going to school, getting access to health care or other services, or even leaving her home without husband's permission.

Donate to Malalai Joya's work with Afghani women: Here
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? -Isaiah 58:6-7

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