I'm not even a Muslim and I AM OFFENDED at this GARBAGE PROPAGANDA!!!!
"Both sides gain from time together; Afghan women, US students learn at Holy Cross" by James F. Smith, Globe Staff | May 12, 2009
WORCESTER - Yalda Faqeerzada and Uzra Azizi defied Taliban rebels in the Khyber Pass in their native Afghanistan last summer, so determined were they to make their way here and begin four years of college at Holy Cross, courtesy of a program that educates Afghan women in the United States.
But the two 20-year-old women did more than learn all year. They also did plenty of teaching - sharing with fellow students the traditions and contradictions of a proud, war-ravaged land that many Americans know only through stereotypes and misconceptions....
Yeah, and WHOSE FAULT is THAT, lying, Muslim-hating, war-promoting, agenda-pushing, AmeriKan jewsmedia?
See: How I Came to Love the Veil
And consider this:
"They sat in one girl’s home telling their story, their faces uncovered only because no man was present. But when Mohammed Matloob, the father of one of the girls, walked into the room, the other three quickly pulled their head scarves over their faces. His daughter, Nagina, 16, ordered him to leave the room, which he did, with a surprised shrug."
Aren't the children beautiful?
Tomas Munita for The New York Times Hameeda Sarfraz, in the dark burqa, teaches Islamic religious lessons to children in her village, about 50 miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Oh, what LIES we have been told about Muslims by our Muslim-hating Zionist AmeriKan MSM, Americans!!!!!!
Honestly, I'm tired of the MSM lying? Aren't you, AmeriKa?
How many times I gotta put it up?
These are young women of quiet but defiant courage. They share independent streaks that have landed them abroad and alone more than once, seizing on chances to learn. That alone makes them unique in a society where women are usually submissive, often illiterate, and almost always sheltered by their parents and then by their husbands.
Thanks for reinforcing the stereotypes, you piece of s*** war daily.
They are heading home this week to an unsettled Afghan capital, Kabul, for the summer. As excited as they are at the prospect of seeing their families again, they admit to anxious worry at the worsening car-bombings and suicide attacks in their homeland - and the recent erosion of hard-won gains for Afghan women.
Related: Using Women as War Propaganda
Azizi and Faqeerzada are among 47 Afghan women pursuing four-year college degrees in the United States this year through a program called The Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. Paula Nirschel, from Bristol, R.I., launched the program in 2002, starting with just four scholarships, including one at Roger Williams University where her husband, Roy J. Nirschel, is president.
Nirschel said that she founded the program in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Yeah, before we didn't care:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
Clear now about the fake fooleys when it comes to the women of the Muslim world and the AmeriKan jewsmedia, readers?
The Afghan women, in turn, also have eye-opening moments in the United States. "They came here knowing Americans as soldiers and targeting parts of their country," Nirschel said. "There's an ambivalence about Americans. There are misconceptions both ways."
The program requires the participating colleges to help the women maintain their culture and their religion, stocking their refrigerators with Halaal food and making sure they have places to pray.
Good!
Holy Cross is participating for the first time this year. And Faqeerzada and Azizi admit to gulping when they learned that Holy Cross is a Jesuit college. Both say they have been teased by Afghans and Americans alike about whether they have been converted yet. (They are practicing Muslims who have visited the very active mosque in Worcester, and they are taking a class in Koran study).
I wish we had a mosque in my town.
Both women said that many people at home opposed their traveling abroad, unescorted, for their college educations. But the key for both was that their parents stood by them, letting them live out their dreams.
Yup, good old AmeriKa!
Forget the INVASION based on LIES and the RESULTING MASS-MURDER!!!
"I am the first girl in any generation in my family to be out of the country," Azizi said. "Even my brothers haven't been away from home." Azizi, a Pashtun whose roots are in Jalalabad, was born in Pakistan in one of the camps. Her family returned to Kabul seven years ago. Her father worked for the United Nations for 18 years, in Pakistan and later in Afghanistan. Her father was shot in the leg in a kidnapping attempt after the fall of the Taliban and was hospitalized for seven months, undergoing three operations.
Azizi first demonstrated her independence by traveling to Maine in 2003 for the summer for the Seeds of Peace Program. She spent a high school year abroad in California. After high school, she worked in a bank in Kabul for two years and has hopes of a career in international relations and global economics. Faqeerzada is a Tajik, from the north. During the Taliban era, she was in a secret school for girls in Kabul, but it was discovered and threatened, so her parents sent her to Peshawar in Pakistan for four years. She returned in 2002, after the Taliban fell.
Excuse me?
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