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BURQA vs RAPE
[Half of our mailing list, which is quite
extensive now, received the third
letter on BURQA vs RAPE without the writer's
name. So here it is again along
with correction of typos. Our mail goes out in
driblets and we noticed the error
halfway through. - Editor]
(from Dr. Edward Miller, San Rafael, California)
Kaukab:
What you have described in
Germany
and
Vietnam regarding women's
response to an occupying army has been written
in the history of all great
empires.. When I was a battalion surgeon in
Japan waiting to be sent to
Korea...our Division camp on the side of Mount
Fugi was surrounded almost overnight
by clusters of small bars with "mamma-sans" and
their young prostitutes
awaiting the marines as they came and went. The
marked rise in veneral disease
and its treatment occupied much of my time..as
well as the time of the
very-cooperative Japanese physicians...
On Another topic...President
Bush
in exhalting
the political, murder of the
two Hussein sons ( and they could very easily
have been taken alive) tells
us something about Bush and his god, with whom he
says he converses. The
Christian god, as described by the Prophet Jesus,
taught forgiveness...unlike
Yaweh, the old Testament Hebrew God of revenge
(An eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth)...Bush, surrrounded by the so-called
"Christian Right",..who are
neither Christian nor rIight...has simply adopted
their Hebrew God of
revenge...
Political assassination, and that's what
happened to the Hussein sons, was
effectively banned as a tool of the United States
by President Gerald Ford in
1976 in response to the detailed report from a
congresssional committee
assigned to study the history and results of such
actiions.
Keep writing
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UNUSUAL LETTER FROM KABUL ABOUT THE BURQA
I have just read one of your articles about the
Burqa under the Title
"Unrecognized Role In
Afghanistan."
it is really very interesting and for the first
time I am seeing some one
from the west writing the truth. As from the
time I am remembering all the
westerners, no matter even if he or she is
Muslim, are against Burqa without
knowing in depth about the depth and its roots in
the Islamic history and
culture of Afghanistan. People were thinking that
it is some thing that has
been imposed on Afghans by the Taliban where as
the reality is something
else. This is a part of our religion and our rich
culture that we have
inherited from the past hundreds of years.
I just wanted to thank you for the interesting
and beautiful article that
you have written. I just want your permission, if
you would allow, I want to
publish it in our only English newspaper The
Kabul Times that has for the
moment an international replication. However it
has some mistakes
especially regarding the Khalq and Parcham
parties and their leadership. If
needed I will write you the minute mistakes also.
Thank you very much
and best Regards,
Sayed Sirajuddin Khalid
From Kabul
Afghanistan
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BOYCOTT
COCA-COLA
[Report sent by Br. Abu Talib,
Jamaat al-Muslimeen's
Boycott Committee
representative in Brooklyn, New York]
Coca-Cola in Kerala,
India,
accused of leaving
farms parched and land poisoned
Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Thursday July 24 2003
The Guardian
[Excerpts]
The largest Coca-Cola plant in India is being
accused of putting thousands of
farmers out of work by draining the water that
feeds their wells, and
poisoning the land with waste sludge that the
company claims is fertiliser.
The plant in the southern state of Kerala is
designed to satisfy the demand
for Coke in what has become the multinational
company's fastest growing market.
But its huge demand for water is causing such
damage to the local economy
that the village council which had granted the
company a licence to operate is
now demanding the plant's closure.
So desperate have the nearest villagers become
for water since their wells
dried up that Coca-Cola sends water tankers round
every morning to supply
minimum needs.
The company denies the shortages have anything to
do with its use of up to 1m
litres of water a day from the underground
aquifer that used to keep the
wells topped up.
The charity ActionAid says the crisis facing the
once prosperous farming area
is an example of the worst kind of inward
investment by multinational
companies in developing countries.
In a report to the
World Trade Organisation's
meeting in Cancun, Mexico, in
September the charity says this kind of abuse
must be controlled.
The report says Plachimada was a thriving
agricultural community until
Coca-Cola set up the bottling plant in 1998.
Coconut groves and vegetable crops have
had to be abandoned because of the lack of water.
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