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Wen you look back on US history and see how women were treated until recently and how minorities have been treated. Then you look how long it took to get equal rights for women and minorities, you can see that our struggle with freedom hasn't been a simpe or easy road. I don't expect the struggle under Taliban rule will be any less difficult. Women in our country used to be treated a property and their treatment was a matter of religious values. Minorities gined the right to vote, but were not allowed to exercise that right in the south until the 60s. I am simply pointing out that freedom and equal rights wasn't easy to gain in this country and it won't be easy to gain half a world away.
I don't want to add to the dog-pile, but I'm going to because I just can't ignore the blatantly disingenous comparison of women only gaining the vote 100 years into a 200-year old country, and civil rights struggles 50 years ago with a country that refuses to educate their female children, and has repeatedly murdered said female children, often by locking them inside the school house and burning them alive.
Females in America have been "allowed" education since the 18th century. No females that I know of have every been slaughtered for trying to learn to read. Slavery was bad, mkay? But comparing 19th century slavery to the wanton slaughter of entire villages that do not adhere to an extreme jihadist tenant that treats women as disposable property, able to be legally murdered at will by ANY male who feels like doing the deed to the fact that women have "only" had the vote for 100 years is utterly laughable.
You don't "expect the struggle under Taliban rule will be any less difficult"? Are you joking? Women have been educated in this country since its inception. Although slaves were "property" until the Civil War, "women" were not. Comparing those social struggles over the past century to the oppressive barbarism that is Taliban rule in Afghanistan and Pakistan is akin to comparing the fact that women and minorities were not allowed to vote until the 20th century to the horror of the holocaust... and finding them equal!!
I'm truly astounded.