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General Category => World News => Topic started by: flowers on July 20, 2013, 03:25:56 pm
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/20/us-afghanistan-edict-idUSBRE96J02220130720
(Reuters) - One of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main religious advisers will not overturn a decree issued by clerics in the north reimposing Taliban-style curbs on women, in another sign of returning conservatism as NATO forces leave the country.
Just days after the United States launched a $200 million program to boost the role of women in Afghanistan, a senior member of the country's top religious leaders' panel said he would not intervene over a draconian edict issued by clerics in the Deh Salah region of Baghlan province.
Deh Salah, near Panshir, was a bastion of anti-Taliban sentiment prior to the ousting of the austere Islamist government by the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in 2001.
But the eight article decree, issued late in June, bars women from leaving home without a male relative, while shutting cosmetic shops on the pretext they were being used for prostitution - an accusation residents and police reject.
Now reuters is calling sharia conservatism? This is even to low for reuters, maybe not.....the north reimposing Taliban-style curbs on women, in another sign of returning conservatism
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The Afghans had a chance, they stuck with the tribal leaders who seem to have stuck with the Taliban.
Bring our soldiers home.