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    Editor defends mutilated Afghan woman on magazine cover




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    The TIME magazine cover featuring Aisha, a victim of Taliban brutality.






    A MAGAZINE is standing by its decision to use a graphic image of a woman mutilated by the Taliban on its cover in a protest against troop pullouts in Afghanistan.

    The cover of TIME shows an 18-year-old woman with her nose cut off with the headline "What happens if we leave Afghanistan".
    Aisha was the victim of Taliban brutality, her nose and ears barbarically hacked off by her own husband as punishment for attempting to flee her cruel in-laws, The Daily Mail reported.
    She was held down by her brother-in-law while the man she married disfigured her face with a knife.
    When she was caught last year attempting to flee her home, a local Taliban commander acting as judge ordered the medieval-style punishment.


    The cover comes as the Netherlands became the first Western ally to end its mission in Afghanistan yesterday. The Dutch have lost 24 soldiers, with 140 injured. The Netherlands departure raised fears of a stampede towards the exit as the deployment enters its endgame.
    A note from TIME managing editor Richard Stengel said Aisha had "posed for the picture and says she wants the world to see the effect a Taliban resurgence would have on the women of Afghanistan, many of whom have flourished in the past few years . . . she knows that she will become a symbol of the price Afghan women have had to pay for the repressive ideology of the Taliban".
    Mr Stengel said Aisha was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut off for fleeing her abusive husband and in-laws. She is in a safe house for women in Kabul and will have reconstructive surgery in the US.
    He apologised to readers who found the image too strong, but said he "would rather confront readers with the Taliban's treatment of women than ignore it. I would rather people know that reality as they make up their minds about what the US and its allies should do in Afghanistan".
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    Read an interesting comment in this article.

    http://brnaeem.blogspot.com/2009/05/...t-taliban.html

    Anonymous said...
    AA Bro Naeem

    As a person whose spent almost every summer for the past 15 years in Swat @ my family's summer home, I can speak from a up close and personal POV re the Taliban.
    Firstly they are neither Muslims nor Pakhtoons- they are athiest Russians. How do I know this? My uncle - a retired Pk army general was trying to protect some women and children by hiding them from the Taliban. So what happened- he was abducted along with several of these innocents and brutally beaten - finally was released due to army rescue. From this uncle we heard that these so called Taliban were speaking in Russian and other foreign languages.
    So before claiming that these Taliban are Muslims is far from the truth - they don't represent any Islam many of us have been brought up to believe in. Remember that education is the first creed of Islam and the Taliban have destroyed hundreds of schools all over Northern Pakistan. This again is not worthy of one who claims Islam as their faith. BTW - these munafiq also destroyed 300+ old Qurans and Islamic manuscripts while on rampage in this area.
    什麼是朋友?朋友永遠是在你犯下不可原諒錯誤的時候,仍舊站在你那邊的笨蛋。~ 王亞瑟

    和諧唔係一百個人講同一番話,係一百個人有一百句唔同嘅說話,而又互相尊重 ~ - 葉梓恩

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