Women married with cousins (forced, not really smei-forced, for sure).. all dressed in burka style, always with male outside the house adn always subservent.
the only difference with the taleban areas were precisely on religious ground.
no army escort was needed, andthere were no pre-pubberty marriages (since it was religiously forbidden).
That was my point, if you take out the areas where taliban is stronger, and where religious hierarchical structures are dominant you have a very standard patriarchal society with patriarchal veto on matriarchal households.
I was in contact with a few.. my familiy. But let me stress, in no way I am saying that this is general to all Afganisthan, there are broad areas of Afganistan, Pakistan and overall, the main cities, were women live in hell. though I would never advovate to bomb... after all only the existence of our prisons would make all the cultures of the world want to bomb us for our barbarism (it's a Levi-Strauss idea.. bomb our prisons).
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
