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In a message dated 10/4/2001 10:28:27 AM Central Daylight Time, baker@gtw.net
writes:
> Subject: Please sign and pass it on.
>
> If you decide not to forward this, please send it back to me.
>
> This is an actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if you drop the
> line.
>
> Please take three minutes out of your life to do your part. Be sure to
> include other members of your household who are willing to sign.
>
> Oprah recently had a show about this atrocity and it was heartbreaking.
>
> Petition to the United Nations Background Information: Madhu, the
> government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women.
>
> Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and
> have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire,
> even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their
> eyes. One woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for
> accidentally exposing her arm(!) while she was driving. Another was stoned
> to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a
> relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a
> male relative; professional women such as professors, translators,
> doctors,lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and
> restricted to their homes. Homes where a woman is present must have their
> windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear
> silent shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their
> lives for the slightest misbehavior.
>
> Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are
> either starving to death or begging in the street,even if they hold
> Ph.D.'s. Depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached
> emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to
> know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are estimating
> that the suicide rate among women must be extraordinarily high: those who
> cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would
> rather take their lives than live in such conditions.
>
> At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly
> lifeless bodies lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua,
> unwilling to speak, eat,or do anything, but slowly wasting away. Others
> have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or
> crying, most of them in fear.
>
> It is at the point where the term "human rights violations" has become an
> understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their women
> relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right
> to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or
> offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative freedom: to
> work, to dress generally as they wanted, and to drive and appear in public
> alone until only 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the main reason
> for the depression and suicide; Women who were once educators or doctors or
> simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated
> as subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not
> their tradition or "culture," but it is alien to them, and it is extreme
> even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule.
>
> Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women
> in a Muslim country.
>
> If we can threaten military force in Kosovo the name of human rights for
> the sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of the world can certainly express
> peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice committed against
> women by the Taliban.
>
>
> STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women in
> Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves action by the United
> Nations and that the current situation overseas will not be tolerated.
>
> Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and it is UNACCEPTABLE for
> women in 2001 to be treated as subhuman and as so much property.
>
> Equality and human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not a freedom to be
> granted, whether one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
>
>
> 1) James Chism Jr. , Pontoon Beach , IL USA
> 2) Patricia Chism , Granite City ,IL USA
> 3) James Chism Sr., Granite City , IL USA
> 4) Beth Barnes , Granite City , IL USA
> 5) Bryan Barnes , Granite City , IL USA
> 6) Marta Scaturro, Granite City, IL USA
> 7) Tom Scaturro, Granite City, IL USA
> 8) Susan H Hawkins, St Louis, MO USA
> 9) Ellen Hammond, Cincinnati, Ohio USA
> 10) Ann F. Baker
> 11) Martha K. Baker
12) John E. Clifford
> > DIRECTIONS: PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, sign the bottom
> and forward it to everyone on your distribution lists. If you receive this
> list with over 300 names on it, please email a copy to
> sarabande@brandeis.edu.
>
> Even if you decide not to sign, please don't kill this petition. Thanks
>
>
>
>
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 10/4/2001 10:28:27 AM Central Daylight Time, baker@gtw.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><B>Subject: </B>Please sign and pass it on.
<BR>
<BR>If you decide not to forward this, please send it back to me.
<BR>
<BR>This is an actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if you drop the line.
<BR>
<BR>Please take three minutes out of your life to do your part. Be sure to include other members of your household who are willing to sign.
<BR>
<BR>Oprah recently had a show about this atrocity and it was heartbreaking.
<BR>
<BR><B>Petition to the United Nations Background Information: Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women.</B>
<BR>
<BR><B>Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. One woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally exposing her arm(!) while she was driving. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors,lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and restricted to their homes. Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehavior.</B>
<BR>
<BR><B>Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging in the street,even if they hold Ph.D.'s. Depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide rate among women must be extraordinarily high: those who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions.</B>
<BR>
<BR><B>At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat,or do anything, but slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear.</B>
<BR>
<BR><B>It is at the point where the term "human rights violations" has become an understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative freedom: to work, to dress generally as they wanted, and to drive and appear in public alone until only 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the main reason for the depression and suicide; Women who were once educators or doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated as subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their tradition or "culture," but it is alien to them, and it is extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule.</B>
<BR>
<BR><B>Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women in a Muslim country.</B>
<BR>
<BR><B>If we can threaten military force in Kosovo the name of human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of the world can certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice committed against women by the Taliban.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
<BR><B>
<BR></B>STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women in Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves action by the United Nations and that the current situation overseas will not be tolerated.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
<BR>
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and it is UNACCEPTABLE for women in 2001 to be treated as subhuman and as so much property.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
<BR>Equality and human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not a freedom to be granted, whether one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
<BR>
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> 1) James Chism Jr. , Pontoon Beach , IL USA
<BR> 2) Patricia Chism , Granite City ,IL USA
<BR> 3) James Chism Sr., Granite City , IL USA
<BR> 4) Beth Barnes , Granite City , IL USA
<BR> 5) Bryan Barnes , Granite City , IL USA
<BR> 6) Marta Scaturro, Granite City, IL USA
<BR> 7) Tom Scaturro, Granite City, IL USA</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> 8) Susan H Hawkins, St Louis, MO USA
<BR> 9) Ellen Hammond, Cincinnati, Ohio USA
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">10) Ann F. Baker
<BR>11) Martha K. Baker</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR> 12) John E. Clifford
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> DIRECTIONS: PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, sign the bottom and forward it to everyone on your distribution lists. If you receive this list with over 300 names on it, please email a copy to sarabande@brandeis.edu.
<BR>
<BR>Even if you decide not to sign, please don't kill this petition. Thanks
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:16:34 -0500
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From: EFH13@aol.com
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:45:29 EDT
To: ann@aah2learn.org, adamglb@juno.com, dbeaufoy@public2.east.cn.net, sbeaufoy@cinci.rr.com, JBCINCY@aol.com, lcamp@wpms.net, Carocav@aol.com, LNCAV@aol.com, Bbccincy@aol.com, betsy@telepak.net, MCMDePalma@aol.com, PDirvin@aol.com, edgingtonpat@hotmail.com, wagreen@i-55.com, cotthamm@hotmail.com, EnnyHamm@aol.com, SandHamm@aol.com, MEHammond@fcsg.com, Dalenbob@aol.com, aeh@fuse.net, GEOPEACH@hargray.com, chopewell@cinci.rr.com, vgjahns@yahoo.com, maryannajohnson@compuserve.com, JEJ100@aol.com, shpstore@candw.ky, LSFOWLE01@aol.com, Mcruncher@aol.com, PATMRCHNT@aol.com, scmiller147@nc.rr.com, LOwen1@aol.com, Eny815@cs.com, BigSOwen@aol.com, Bmperine@aol.com, JSRich123@aol.com, StefPhD@aol.com, rogersa@countryday.net, paulrogers@fuse.net, patanddick@dellnet.com, SEAGRdjmj@aol.com, TT2003T@aol.com, jsilvati@earthlink.net, HHSfield@aol.com, fthompson302@earthlink.net, M78Trapp@aol.com, Tastegt@aol.com, wagner03@erols.com, BLTW2@aol.com
Subject: Please sign and pass it on.
If you decide not to forward this, please send it back to me.
This is an actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if you drop the line.
Please take three minutes out of your life to do your part. Be sure to include other members of your household who are willing to sign.
Oprah recently had a show about this atrocity and it was heartbreaking.
Petition to the United Nations Background Information: Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women.
Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. One woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally exposing her arm(!) while she was driving. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors,lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and restricted to their homes. Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehavior.
Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging in the street,even if they hold Ph.D.'s. Depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide ratewith certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide rate among women must be extraordinarily high: those who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions.
At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat,or do anything, but slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear.
It is at the point where the term "human rights violations" has become an understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative freedom: to work, to dress generally as they wanted, and to drive and appear in public alone until only 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the main reason for the depression and suicide; Women who were once educators or doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated as subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their tradition or "culture," but it is alien to them, and it is extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule.
Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are womenin a Muslim country.
If we can threaten military force in Kosovo the name of human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of the world can certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice committed against women by the Taliban.
STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women inAfghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves action by the United Nations and that the current situation overseas will not be tolerated.
Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and it is UNACCEPTABLE for women in 2001 to be treated as subhuman and as so much property.
Equality and human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not a freedom to be granted, whether one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
1) James Chism Jr. , Pontoon Beach , IL USA
2) Patricia Chism , Granite City ,IL USA
3) James Chism Sr., Granite City , IL USA
4) Beth Barnes , Granite City , IL USA
5) Bryan Barnes , Granite City , IL USA
6) Marta Scaturro, Granite City, IL USA
7) Tom Scaturro, Granite City, IL USA
8) Susan H Hawkins, St Louis, MO USA
9) Ellen Hammond, Cincinnati, Ohio USA
10) Ann F. Baker
11) Martha K. Baker
> DIRECTIONS: PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, sign the bottom and forward it to everyone on your distribution lists. If you receive this list with over 300 names on it, please email a copy to sarabande@brandeis.edu.
Even if you decide not to sign, please don't kill this petition. Thanks
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</B>EFH13@aol.com<BR><B>Date: </B>Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:45:29 EDT<BR><B>To:
</B>ann@aah2learn.org, adamglb@juno.com, dbeaufoy@public2.east.cn.net,
sbeaufoy@cinci.rr.com, JBCINCY@aol.com, lcamp@wpms.net, Carocav@aol.com,
LNCAV@aol.com, Bbccincy@aol.com, betsy@telepak.net, MCMDePalma@aol.com,
PDirvin@aol.com, edgingtonpat@hotmail.com, wagreen@i-55.com,
cotthamm@hotmail.com, EnnyHamm@aol.com, SandHamm@aol.com, MEHammond@fcsg.com,
Dalenbob@aol.com, aeh@fuse.net, GEOPEACH@hargray.com, chopewell@cinci.rr.com,
vgjahns@yahoo.com, maryannajohnson@compuserve.com, JEJ100@aol.com,
shpstore@candw.ky, LSFOWLE01@aol.com, Mcruncher@aol.com, PATMRCHNT@aol.com,
scmiller147@nc.rr.com, LOwen1@aol.com, Eny815@cs.com, BigSOwen@aol.com,
Bmperine@aol.com, JSRich123@aol.com, StefPhD@aol.com, rogersa@countryday.net,
paulrogers@fuse.net, patanddick@dellnet.com, SEAGRdjmj@aol.com, TT2003T@aol.com,
jsilvati@earthlink.net, HHSfield@aol.com, fthompson302@earthlink.net,
M78Trapp@aol.com, Tastegt@aol.com, wagner03@erols.com,
BLTW2@aol.com<BR><B>Subject: </B>Please sign and pass it on.<BR><BR><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>If you decide not to forward this, please sendit back
to me. <BR><BR>This is an actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost ifyou
drop the line. <BR><BR>Please take three minutes out of your life to do
your part. Be sure to include other members of your household who are
willing to sign. <BR><BR>Oprah recently had a show about this atrocity and it
was heartbreaking. <BR><BR><B>Petition to the United Nations Background
Information: Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon
women.</B> <BR><BR><B>Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to
wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper
attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their
eyes. One woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for
accidentally exposing her arm(!) while she was driving. Another was stoned
to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative.
Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male
relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors,lawyers,
artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and restricted to their
homes. Homes where a woman is present must have their windows paintedso
that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so
that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the
slightest misbehavior.</B> <BR><BR><B>Because they cannot work, those without
male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging in the
street,even if they hold Ph.D.'s. Depression is becoming so widespread
that it has reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme
Islamic society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workersare
estimating that the suicide rate among women must be extraordinarily high: those
who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would
rather take their lives than live in such conditions.</B> <BR><BR><B>At oneof
the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies
lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak,
eat,or do anything, but slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad andwere
seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in
fear.</B> <BR><BR><B>It is at the point where the term "human rights violations"
has become an understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death
over their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as
much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of
flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative
freedom: to work, to dress generally as they wanted, and to drive and appear in
public alone until only 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the main
reason for the depression and suicide; Women who were once educators or doctors
or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated
as subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not
their tradition or "culture," but it is alien to them, and it is extreme even
for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule.</B> <BR><BR><B>Everyone has
a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women in a Muslim
country.</B> <BR><BR><B>If we can threaten military force in Kosovo the name of
human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of the world can
certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice
committed against women by the Taliban.</B><FONT color=#800080>
<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><B><BR></B>STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree
that the current treatment of women in Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE
and deserves action by the United Nations and that the current situation
overseas will not be tolerated.<FONT color=#800080><FONT face=Arial>
<BR><BR><FONT size=4>Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and itis
UNACCEPTABLE for women in 2001 to be treated as subhuman and as so much
property.</FONT> <BR><FONT size=4><BR>Equality and human decency is a
fundamental RIGHT, not a freedom to be granted, whether one lives in Afghanistan
or elsewhere.</FONT> <BR><FONT size=4><BR><BR></FONT> 1) James
Chism Jr. , Pontoon Beach , IL USA <BR> 2) Patricia Chism ,
Granite City ,IL USA <BR> 3) James Chism Sr., Granite City, IL
USA <BR> 4) Beth Barnes , Granite City , IL USA
<BR> 5) Bryan Barnes , Granite City , IL USA <BR> 6)
Marta Scaturro, Granite City, IL USA <BR> 7) Tom
Scaturro, Granite City, IL USA<FONT size=4> <BR></FONT> 8)
Susan H Hawkins, St Louis, MO USA <BR> 9) Ellen Hammond,
Cincinnati, Ohio USA <BR></FONT><FONT size=4><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">10) Ann
F. Baker</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#800080><FONT size=4><FONTface="Comic Sans MS">11) Martha K. Baker<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">> DIRECTIONS: PLEASE COPY this email on to a new
message, sign the bottom and forward it to everyone on your distribution lists.
If you receive this list with over 300 names on it, please email a copy to
sarabande@brandeis.edu. <BR><BR>Even if you decide not to sign, please
don't kill this petition. Thanks
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