Sunday, December 27, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
TRUST TRUST TRUST
TRUST is one of the most important thing in a relationship. But how can you trust if that trust was already broken?
Rebuilding trust is very difficult..
The truth is that you can be in a relationship with someone for years but not truly trust them--not be open to them. owh? wel, it depends--.
Rebuilding trust is very difficult..
The truth is that you can be in a relationship with someone for years but not truly trust them--not be open to them. owh? wel, it depends--.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Child Marriage (Afghanistan Culture)
Afghanistan is one of the world’s most conservative countries, yet child marriages are growing. And they have also the highest infant and maternal morality rates in the world and lack of access to basic health care.
Extreme poverty, lack of awareness about child rights, weak law enforcement and strong conservative traditions are among the problems which have pushed many minors – boys and girls – into situation of peonage.
Destitute parents sell their daughters to survive, sometimes young girls are but a means of exchange to pay off a gambling debt, an opium purchase or to preserve one’s honor.
Drug smugglers that pay off poor farmers in advance for opium production, often demand young brides when farmers fail to produce opium and lack other means to repay their loans.
According the UN office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Afghanistan produces over 90 percent of the world’s heroin, generating an illicit economy worth over US$4 billion a year.
In the western province of Herat, more than 150 cases of the selling of children, especially girls, were reported in 2008. “There is no law to prevent child marriage and child sale,” according to a director of a women’s rights NGO in Herat Province. Child marriages are unfortunately not the exclusive privilege of Afghanistan. The judicial system and courts are notoriously corrupt and biased. People do not dare to seek justice through them.
Children who experience forced marriage, sale and servitude suffer physical, sexual and mental violence. They often lead a difficult life and some of them seek release through self-immolation and suicide.
When afghans are confronted by foreigners offended by these indecent unions between barely pubescent virgins and old fogeys, they often respond that since the prophet Mohammed wed the nine-year-old child Aicha, then it is legal to do the same thing according to Sharia (Muslim law based on Koran). And if you show surprise at the difference in their ages, they have this Persian proverb that goes: “If the girl doesn’t fall when you throw your hat at her, then she’s old enough to get married.”
Yes, every country has their own culture and laws but some just do not act as humans but rather as captures. I also realize that if I was brought up in this culture then possibly I would just abide by all these laws and not say a word, but I wasn’t, thank god and I do believe if many of these women knew this was not the way they should be treated they would also protest, but for fear for their lives and thousands of years instilled in them this is just the way it is. Who knows what the outcome of all these will be, but I still stand by my beliefs and say this is all wrong!
Extreme poverty, lack of awareness about child rights, weak law enforcement and strong conservative traditions are among the problems which have pushed many minors – boys and girls – into situation of peonage.
Destitute parents sell their daughters to survive, sometimes young girls are but a means of exchange to pay off a gambling debt, an opium purchase or to preserve one’s honor.
Drug smugglers that pay off poor farmers in advance for opium production, often demand young brides when farmers fail to produce opium and lack other means to repay their loans.
According the UN office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Afghanistan produces over 90 percent of the world’s heroin, generating an illicit economy worth over US$4 billion a year.
In the western province of Herat, more than 150 cases of the selling of children, especially girls, were reported in 2008. “There is no law to prevent child marriage and child sale,” according to a director of a women’s rights NGO in Herat Province. Child marriages are unfortunately not the exclusive privilege of Afghanistan. The judicial system and courts are notoriously corrupt and biased. People do not dare to seek justice through them.
Children who experience forced marriage, sale and servitude suffer physical, sexual and mental violence. They often lead a difficult life and some of them seek release through self-immolation and suicide.
When afghans are confronted by foreigners offended by these indecent unions between barely pubescent virgins and old fogeys, they often respond that since the prophet Mohammed wed the nine-year-old child Aicha, then it is legal to do the same thing according to Sharia (Muslim law based on Koran). And if you show surprise at the difference in their ages, they have this Persian proverb that goes: “If the girl doesn’t fall when you throw your hat at her, then she’s old enough to get married.”
Yes, every country has their own culture and laws but some just do not act as humans but rather as captures. I also realize that if I was brought up in this culture then possibly I would just abide by all these laws and not say a word, but I wasn’t, thank god and I do believe if many of these women knew this was not the way they should be treated they would also protest, but for fear for their lives and thousands of years instilled in them this is just the way it is. Who knows what the outcome of all these will be, but I still stand by my beliefs and say this is all wrong!
Friday, September 25, 2009
I DO DOG TRICKS
TYPE IN a command under the dog and see what happens. Sit, roll over, down, stand, sing, dance, shake, fetch, play dead , beg, jump, lick, kiss, etc.
Click here!
Click here!
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wild Fires in Southern California
Great photos of an extensive and destructive wildfire.
Please step at this site once in a while..
Click the link below..
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/wildfires_in_southern_californ.html
Please step at this site once in a while..
Click the link below..
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/wildfires_in_southern_californ.html
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