BBC-Afghans lampoon clerics over women ruling

Article reading:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17296607

It's hard for people from democratic country like us to imagine the life in Afghan. Afghan is now a republic country; however, what its government and its religious council (the Ulema council) are trying to do to the country seems like a throwback to the Taliban era (which is autocracy and caesaropapism). The recommendation that proposed by the Ulema council is a restrictive guidelines for women; woman's right and freedom will no longer exist. People in Afghan divide in two: one party is the youngsters who protest against the new law; the other party is the elders who think the law is in accordance with Islam, their religious belief.

If I were an Afghan, as a feminist, I will join the opposition party without hesitation. The rising of women right is a mainstream tendency in the world. Yet, the Afghanistan government turns the clock back to the conservative and oppressive days that haunted women. Besides the opposition to the lated thought, I also think that the opinion of "the new law will lead to the sharply rising expenditure of government" is reasonable. If the officials of Afghan want to carry out the new policy, the government inevitably has to set up new activity space for female only. Otherwise, they have to forbid women from stepping out from their house because once a woman goes outside her home, she may probably bump into a guy and break the new law. It seems to me that the passing of the new law is just a stupid decision.

I think these words in the article strongly touch my heart: "To me a man is only a hero when he respects women and accepts them as human beings… If you act against a woman, that means acting against your mother… Life is only possible with a woman but you keep on chanting against them." A lot of male chauvinists seem to ignore these facts.