[SCA-Cooks] Women's Rights in Afghanistan Petition to the UN (Elaine Koogler)

[Michael Newton]

While the Taliban's treatment of Women is atrocious. What does this topic
have to do with SCA Cooking? If we can't talk about sports here, because it
offends, let us please not talk about world politics.


Thorbjorn
----- Original Message -----
From: "micaylah" <dy018 at freenet.carleton.ca>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [SCA-Cooks] Women's Rights in Afghanistan Petition to the UN
(Elaine Koogler)


> > I know you meant well, but could you please read up on things like
> this
> > before blasting the list?  PLEASE read the parts about how the return
> > address is invalid, the chain letter unauthorized, and so these keep
> > circulating endlessly like some electronic Fleigander Hollander.
> >
> >                                             ---= Morgan
>
> While I agree in sentiment with this, PLEASE understand that not all
> "petitions" are false or hoax's. Point in case, I know of a group called
> RAWA (Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan -
> http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/) and am involved with their cause. There
> IS a petition on their web site that I just sent last night to a number
> of folk on this very e-list. This group is not fictitious, and indeed do
> much work at the risk of their very lives, like teaching female children
> to read among other things. Anyone seen "Beneath the Veil" on CNN? It is
> quite chilling. Especially when the thought is out there that some
> people want the whole word to live this way. Unfortunately hoax's make
> their work even harder.
>
> Respectfully
> Micaylah
>
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