Message #10833

[disallusioned]

This is very sad.  But we need to look at this with an open mind.  Kidnapping all their women and forcing education on them isn't any better than forcing them NOT to be educated.  Now don't stone me; I don't agree with how they are treated either -- it's not how I would want to be treated, but then it's not my place to tell them how they should want to be treated either.  I think - nay I wish, hope, and pray - that they will earn the chance to decide for themselves.  To decide that they want to be educated or that they want to keep covered.  That they want to drive, with all the inherent risks there are for driving over there, or they decide to continue being driven anywhere they want to go.  I don't want to change their cultural history so much as I want the individuals there to have the option, the choice, to change it if THEY want to, without fear of retribution.  There's many a woman in this forum who has voiced her desire and wish to be able to be a stay-at-home woman...why force these women to leave their homes to work just because we don't see it as fair?  Freedom is what I wish for everyone on this planet, the freedom to choose their religion, their home, their culture, and to do so without fear or prejudice.  Freedom is what I wish for... and what I willingly fight for.