Afghan woman whose nose, ears cut off travels to U.S.
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These sick fucking Bastards. 
:shock: :twisted:
The person or persons responsible for doing this should have the same thing done to them. I take that bak these arent people they are fucking animals. :(
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... .htmlKabul,
Afghanistan (CNN) -- Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan wife whose ears and nose were cut off by her husband, is heading to the United States on Wednesday for reconstructive surgery.
Aisha made headlines and was on a recent cover of Time magazine, showing the plight of women in Afghanistan.
"When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out," Aisha said, describing the attack. "It felt like there was cold water in my nose. I opened my eyes, and I couldn't even see because of all the blood."
But she survived.
With the help of an American provincial reconstruction team in Oruzgan province and the organization Women for Afghan Women, she finally received the help and protection she needed.
And now she is on her way to the United States, where the Grossman Burn Foundation will provide her with reconstructive surgery and a new life.
Read a behind-the-scenes with Aisha then and now
Aisha says her mutilation was an act of Taliban justice for the crime of shaming her husband's family.
At 16, she was handed over to her husband's father and 10 brothers, who she claims were all members of the Taliban in Oruzgan.
"I spent two years with them and became a prisoner," she said.
Read more about Aisha's story
She eventually ran away but was caught by police in Kandahar. And although running away is not a crime, in places throughout Afghanistan, it is treated as one if you are a woman. Eventually her father-in-law found her and took her back to her abusive home.
She was taken to a Taliban court for dishonoring her husband's family and bringing them shame. The court ruled that her nose and ears must be cut off, an act carried out by her husband in the mountains of Oruzgan, where they left her to die.
After Aisha's story was exposed to the world through various news organizations, offers of help poured in.
But there are many more women still suffering.
The United Nations estimates that nearly 90 percent of Afghanistan's women face some sort of domestic abuse. This in a country where there are fewer than a dozen women's shelters providing sanctuary from the cruelty they face. And all of them are privately run.
"Bibi Aisha is only one example of thousands of girls and women in Afghanistan and throughout the world who are treated this way. Who suffer abuses like this -- like this and worse," Women for Afghan Women board member Esther Hyneman said.
In 2001, the situation of Afghan women and Taliban brutality received lots of attention. Now, organizations like Women for Afghan Women say, the international community is strangely silent on the issue.
And with the Afghan government's plans to negotiate with some of the Taliban -- supported by many in the international community -- many fear that it will be the women who will pay the price.
Hyneman says that not enough is being done to help the women in Afghanistan, and that feeds into the hands of the Taliban.
Aisha is reminded of that every time she looks in the mirror.
But at least now she will be going to the United States for a chance at a new life.
And just like the iconic picture of an Afghan girl on a 1985 National Geographic cover brought the plight of Afghan women under Soviet oppression to the world's attention, many hope Aisha's face can show the new plight under the Taliban.
:shock: :twisted:The person or persons responsible for doing this should have the same thing done to them. I take that bak these arent people they are fucking animals. :(
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... .htmlKabul,
Afghanistan (CNN) -- Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan wife whose ears and nose were cut off by her husband, is heading to the United States on Wednesday for reconstructive surgery.
Aisha made headlines and was on a recent cover of Time magazine, showing the plight of women in Afghanistan.
"When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out," Aisha said, describing the attack. "It felt like there was cold water in my nose. I opened my eyes, and I couldn't even see because of all the blood."
But she survived.
With the help of an American provincial reconstruction team in Oruzgan province and the organization Women for Afghan Women, she finally received the help and protection she needed.
And now she is on her way to the United States, where the Grossman Burn Foundation will provide her with reconstructive surgery and a new life.
Read a behind-the-scenes with Aisha then and now
Aisha says her mutilation was an act of Taliban justice for the crime of shaming her husband's family.
At 16, she was handed over to her husband's father and 10 brothers, who she claims were all members of the Taliban in Oruzgan.
"I spent two years with them and became a prisoner," she said.
Read more about Aisha's story
She eventually ran away but was caught by police in Kandahar. And although running away is not a crime, in places throughout Afghanistan, it is treated as one if you are a woman. Eventually her father-in-law found her and took her back to her abusive home.
She was taken to a Taliban court for dishonoring her husband's family and bringing them shame. The court ruled that her nose and ears must be cut off, an act carried out by her husband in the mountains of Oruzgan, where they left her to die.
After Aisha's story was exposed to the world through various news organizations, offers of help poured in.
But there are many more women still suffering.
The United Nations estimates that nearly 90 percent of Afghanistan's women face some sort of domestic abuse. This in a country where there are fewer than a dozen women's shelters providing sanctuary from the cruelty they face. And all of them are privately run.
"Bibi Aisha is only one example of thousands of girls and women in Afghanistan and throughout the world who are treated this way. Who suffer abuses like this -- like this and worse," Women for Afghan Women board member Esther Hyneman said.
In 2001, the situation of Afghan women and Taliban brutality received lots of attention. Now, organizations like Women for Afghan Women say, the international community is strangely silent on the issue.
And with the Afghan government's plans to negotiate with some of the Taliban -- supported by many in the international community -- many fear that it will be the women who will pay the price.
Hyneman says that not enough is being done to help the women in Afghanistan, and that feeds into the hands of the Taliban.
Aisha is reminded of that every time she looks in the mirror.
But at least now she will be going to the United States for a chance at a new life.
And just like the iconic picture of an Afghan girl on a 1985 National Geographic cover brought the plight of Afghan women under Soviet oppression to the world's attention, many hope Aisha's face can show the new plight under the Taliban.
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was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
thing is, i don't need to post pictures of women and children who have been maimed by errant bombs. i can just ask the question.
'didn't the US go to Afghanistan specifically to eliminate the threat to our own security from AQ? i'm pretty sure when the US were working out how to destroy their country, the plight of the women were a secondary issue and they still are, so let's not pretend that we are there for the women. despite billions and billions and billions of dollars spent, and too many lives lost to count, i doubt these women are really much better off after all this time. what happens when we leave? what's going to change?
any progress in Afghanistan should be measured not just in military terms, but also in terms of social, and political equality for women while ensuring safeguarding of their human rights.
bringing one person to the US for reconstructive surgery makes it seem like we care, but that doesn't mean we have done a good job. far from it.
Fucking disgusting.
Glad she's getting such a great opportunity to get her life back.
The pigs who raise their children to believe that women are subordinate disgust me to no end.
There's an Afghan couple in the ESL class I'm a T.A. in... They're really sweet. The wife tells me in broken English the terrible pain she went thru in all three pregnancies and how her husband waited on her hand and foot, cleaning the house, cooking, helping her with everything. The two laugh and joke in class in Farsi, and she helps him (as he really struggles, since he never went to school in Afghanistan) with his work. I wish all men could treat their wives this way in his country. I admire them a lot.
now any pakistani or afgani who opposes US presence is labeled taliban, regardless of cause/. maybe they are tired of funerals and weddings being bombed by US drones......doesn't matter. They are all a convenient enemy, one we can fight for a long time.
The authorities always have a good reason for war (if you don't look past the surface), and there is always a war. Seems war profits have become crucial to the entire complex... at the least very lucrative...and corporations decide policy, money determines state action, not the people. its the same in almost any industry.