You might have seen the photo that Jodi Bieber took of Bibi Aisha, if not then do look at the one in the link below. Bibi is an Afghan girl who left her husband and he followed her and cut off her nose and ears. It sounds barbaric, which it is, but the photo conveys a woman who has an inner serenity despite her mutilation.
She now lives in NY city, so possibly might have some sort of plastic surgery eventually. If we tend to feel dissatisfaction with our physical appearance, imagine what she goes through every time she looks in a mirror.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/20/photograp...
Angharad.
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what can i say exept that the Taliban are the most evil inhumane trash on this planet. Life does not mean the same to them, as it does to us.
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That Really Made Me Weep
A beautiful young woman disfigured for pure hate. If only we could take all the women out of Afghanistan and leave the men to themselves for fifty years,
Joanne
Barbarity is as barbarism does...
There are hateful individuals and groups just as wicked in every country of the world if one pokes into the corners people try to keep hidden.
In the USA, more than three thousand women are murdered every year, almost 192,000 rapes and sexual assaults against women are reported, with more than a million such crimes against women unreported because it's so difficult to bring a successful prosecution and one is almost sure to be slandered by the attorney defending the assailant. In addition to these, there are large numbers of vicious assaults causing great bodily harm. I daresay savagery isn't limited to those speaking foreign languages, and I'd hazard the guess that those murdered and maimed by Christians are just as dead and disfigured as those murdered and maimed by Muslims.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
I read that...
...this morning, and do not wish to do so again. I was reminded of their previous picture, of two seventeen-year-old boys about to be hanged in public for the heinous crime of falling in love.
Further words fail me.
I have seen pictures in the past
There can be no excuse for such barbarism.
I saw a television programme this evening where a group of people are campagning for a change in the law. They want all attacks on, and murders of, disabled people to be recorded as hate crimes.
Details were given of 'Alan', a mentally handicapped man, who was killed by a single blow to the head. The perpetrator was charged with manslaughter and received a prison sentence of 7 years. Assuming good behaviour, he will be free in less than 5 years.
'Alan's' mother will never be free.
Susie