[quote]A Taliban minister once said that a woman is like "a flower, a rose" that must be kept at home for one's own enjoyment. "You water it and keep it at home for yourself, to look at it and smell," said Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, who served as foreign minister when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan. "It is not supposed to be taken out of the house to be smelled."[/quote]
Horrible, truly horrible and we should speak out about this. However, I'd just say that it isn't just the Taliban who do that... all round the world women are being treated as objects or second class citizens, not given freedom to choose how their own life works.
