@SamHarrisOrg I wonder if @BinaShah understand why makes a woman objected to her husband’s taking a 6-7 years old girl as his second wife?
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@razi_zack I really think you've missed the point of the essay@SamHarrisOrg -
@BinaShah@SamHarrisOrg I grow up in a very Islamic culture and I have read the essay twice, yet I guess I still didn't get your point! -
@razi_zack I'll try to explain in 160 characters: Of course there is oppression, but Afghan women need to lead the change. 1/2 -
@BinaShah I think what woman in any Islamic stat in general need first is freedom. They really don't care who lead the change. -
@razi_zack If you read the work of@LinaAbirafeh who researched this, the opposite is true. -
@BinaShah@razi_zack that change is more sustainable/meaningful if led from inside -Afghan women want this -the rest of us can support it -
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@LinaAbirafeh@BinaShah Has there been any poll of women who've had noses cut off to see if this preferable to outsider preventing it? - 1 more reply
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@SamHarrisOrg Just imagine replacing Afghan with South African and Islam with Apartheid to see how wrong this article is. - 1 more reply
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@SamHarrisOrg@nytimes@BinaShah The "west" wants everyone to have the same rights you and I enjoy. That is something we should strive for. -
@minmcknight Western intervention that doesn't listen to Afghan women's desires or respect their agency is counterproductive.@SamHarrisOrg -
@BinaShah@SamHarrisOrg Do their desires include FGM, child marriage and unequal protection under the law? I don't respect those desires. -
@minmcknight Have you bothered to find out? Explored their writings, books, poetry? Studied their lives?@SamHarrisOrg -
@BinaShah@SamHarrisOrg No, I am just responding to what you wrote. I don't agree western intervention is counterproductive. -
@BinaShah@wordpressdotcom Are they not severely oppressed? All anyone wants to do is help them. Should we just abandon them? -
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@minmcknight Why is it all a binary with you? Either/or? Are all Americans this simplistic? (see what I did there?) - 3 more replies
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@SamHarrisOrg@peterboghossian@nytimes Poor Afghan men! Of course trying to stop violence against women speedily makes them cut noses off. -
@HPluckrose@SamHarrisOrg@peterboghossian@nytimes oh my fucking goodness. -
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@SamHarrisOrg@peterboghossian@nytimes Just been told I'm a condescending racist by Shah cos support rights for all women.
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