From a book by David Loyn called “Butcher and Bolt” (Hutchinson, 2008):
“Although the Taliban seemed extreme, what they imposed were no more than normal conservative countryside Pashtun values. In some villages women do not even have a name outside their own family. I once succeeded in asking some questions of a woman in a Pashtun village near Kabul–a bizarre four-way interview, with her husband shouting my questions through a curtain….”
Comment by Peter Byrne — August 5, 2010 @ 12:57 pm
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
From a book by David Loyn called “Butcher and Bolt” (Hutchinson, 2008):
“Although the Taliban seemed extreme, what they imposed were no more than normal conservative countryside Pashtun values. In some villages women do not even have a name outside their own family. I once succeeded in asking some questions of a woman in a Pashtun village near Kabul–a bizarre four-way interview, with her husband shouting my questions through a curtain….”
Comment by Peter Byrne — August 5, 2010 @ 12:57 pm