Assignment 10
In the beginning of their article, Lughad in a way challenged the presenter from PBS and asked if he or she could substitute the muslim word with Christian or Jewish word and then asked of that made sense to the presenter. After further perusing the project, she asked “Why were the female symbols being mobilized in this war against terrorism in a way they are bot in other conflicts?” In my opinion they are in need of protection, education and many other things. “Although i am not an expert on Afghanistan, I imagine that the majority of women left in Afghanistan by the time the Taliban took control were the rural or less educated, from non elite families, since they were the only ones who could not emigrate to escape the hardships and voilance that has marked Afghanistan’s recent history.” In her article, she tells the reader about how Afghan women are treated. “The Burke, like some other forms of “cover” has, in many settings, marked the symbolic separation of men and women spheres as part of the general association of women with family and home, not with public space where strangers mingled.” In one part of the article, an Afghan woman wanted to wear dress fancy , but the Afghan man told her that she knows that shes not allowed to to wear pants to to a WASP wedding. Later in the article she says that women who had an education and women who “stood up to the Taliban” were women who refused to wear the burka. However, the lady that the article was about said that when she had greying hair, she was covered in a veil and that she didnt question the Chandon or the scarf. So what i think, this means is that the burka was optional for people who had opportunity had an option to wear the bucks but those who didn’t jive an education or opportunity wore it because they lacked the education. Another way to tell if a woman had an education is if they adhered to the modest dress that any educated Muslim women had taken on. This marks piety and it is a sign of sophistication, modernity, and education. Wom,en adopted it as a way of having virtue in hopes of getting close or closer to God.
