A Teacher in Kabul Speaks Out Against the Shia Family Law and a Flaccid government

            
     Most Afghan women disagree with this law: they even demonstrated last week and many of them were injured. They want an amendment to the Shiite law and said that some articles of this law are against human rights and Afghanistan constitutions.
    Only women who work with rights and democracy offices participated in that demonstration, including my school principal. She said that the demonstration was useless because no one attended (sic) to give them their rights
    They said that some of the terms mentioned in the law are against the campaign of struggle against violence against women in Afghanistan and it will increase violence against women in the country especially Shiite women.
    The government said that they will never amend this law and the law is Islamic law no one has the right to interfere with this law. They just think about their own benefit and they do not care about women's rights.
    The counter-protesters said that they will never accept any amendment and the law is the Islamic law and no one has the right to interfere.
    All of my friends disagree with this law. I also disagree with it.  It's not a good law.  Women can't go out and leave their homes. We want to work and also have a life.

WHAT I WORE FOR THE TALIBAN
         During my mother's time there was very good situation, security and we had a developed country. When the Taliban took over, I was 13 years old. During their regime our life completly changed. All the schools closed and we sat at home  and when we went out we wore a Burqa.  All people had a very bad situation; no one had a job.
             One day when I went out I wore a large veil; one of the Taliban asked me why you did not wear a burqa, so I was really afraid, because they were very cruel persons. 

              After that I just stayed at home and never went out. iI stayed at home for three years: I read some books in Dari with my mother and my aunt taught me mathematics. I became very upset, then my father sent me to Pakistan to my aunt's house. I went to school with my cousin.
     After the Talib regime fell, I came back to Kabul. Now, it is better for women than then.

NOT OF OR BY THE PEOPLE    
    The government that exists now is not supported by most women and men because the government is weak and its institutions are suffering from corruption. Poor performance of government offices has badly damaged the reputation of the country on the international level. Efforts of the government to tackle corruption have not been effective and there is no hope of sudden improvment in the near future. All of them work for their own benefit. The don't do anything to attend to the poor people.  All Afghan people want to change the government. They want a new government

WHAT A GIRL WANTS
    I want a peaceful modern, developed country like the other countries in the world and also I want complete security, attending for the poor nation attending for the women rights.
     I want Afghan women to receive their rights as they have been given equal rights in Islam. They must be educated, hard working and find markets for their products.  

Women and men should respect each other as Islam says.