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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 753721" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/leave-your-job-or-we-will-cut-your-head-off-your-body-2028706.html" target="_blank">(The Independent)</a>- Women in Taliban-held areas of Afghanistan say they are once again being threatened, attacked and forced out of jobs and education as fears rise that their rights will be sacrificed as part of any deal with insurgents to end the war in Afghanistan.</p><p> <strong>Women have reported attacks and received letters warning of violence if they continue to work or even contact radio stations to request songs.</strong></p><p> <strong>One female teacher at a girls’ school in a southern Afghan province received a letter saying: “We warn you to leave your job as a teacher as soon as possible otherwise we will cut off the heads of your children and will set fire to your daughter.”</strong></p><p> Another woman, Jamila, was threatened in August 2009, in a letter bearing the Taliban’s insignia when she was working for a local electoral commission. It said: “You work in the election office together with the enemies of religion and infidels. You should leave your job otherwise we will cut your head off your body.”</p><p> Jamila ignored the letter, but days later her father was murdered. She left her job and moved</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 753721, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/leave-your-job-or-we-will-cut-your-head-off-your-body-2028706.html"](The Independent)[/URL]- Women in Taliban-held areas of Afghanistan say they are once again being threatened, attacked and forced out of jobs and education as fears rise that their rights will be sacrificed as part of any deal with insurgents to end the war in Afghanistan. [B]Women have reported attacks and received letters warning of violence if they continue to work or even contact radio stations to request songs.[/B] [B]One female teacher at a girls’ school in a southern Afghan province received a letter saying: “We warn you to leave your job as a teacher as soon as possible otherwise we will cut off the heads of your children and will set fire to your daughter.”[/B] Another woman, Jamila, was threatened in August 2009, in a letter bearing the Taliban’s insignia when she was working for a local electoral commission. It said: “You work in the election office together with the enemies of religion and infidels. You should leave your job otherwise we will cut your head off your body.” Jamila ignored the letter, but days later her father was murdered. She left her job and moved [/QUOTE]
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