Comments on: A Woman’s Voice of Resistance in Afghanistan http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=876 Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:41:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: N. Moreno http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=876&cpage=1#comment-3045 N. Moreno Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:02:04 +0000 http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=876#comment-3045 "She believes the people of Afghanistan, especially the women, can organize the struggle for fundamental rights such as health care, education, control of their bodies and their lives – but only when the foreign occupiers leave their country." Right. I'm sure the Taliban and their al Qaeda allies will be much more accommodating to leftist feminists like Joya. That's who will come to power if the U.S./NATO pulls out. And that's who Joya is objectively aiding with her "anti-imperialism"--even if she would be one of the first to go if they return. "One wonders about the hopes and goals of the resistance fighters, universally labeled “Taliban” by pro-U.S. media. Are they really identical in outlook to the brutal rulers of the late 1990s? This question remains unexplored." Unexplored? Only if all you read is the far-left press. The nature of the Taliban is constantly being discussed in mainstream journals, such as here: http://www.tnr.com/article/world/the-front. A lame review of a lame book. Joya does not speak for Afghan women. “She believes the people of Afghanistan, especially the women, can organize the struggle for fundamental rights such as health care, education, control of their bodies and their lives – but only when the foreign occupiers leave their country.”

Right. I’m sure the Taliban and their al Qaeda allies will be much more accommodating to leftist feminists like Joya. That’s who will come to power if the U.S./NATO pulls out. And that’s who Joya is objectively aiding with her “anti-imperialism”–even if she would be one of the first to go if they return.

“One wonders about the hopes and goals of the resistance fighters, universally labeled “Taliban” by pro-U.S. media. Are they really identical in outlook to the brutal rulers of the late 1990s? This question remains unexplored.”

Unexplored? Only if all you read is the far-left press. The nature of the Taliban is constantly being discussed in mainstream journals, such as here: http://www.tnr.com/article/world/the-front.

A lame review of a lame book. Joya does not speak for Afghan women.

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