Por Gercyane Oliveira e André Kanasiro | Gercyane é estudante de Ciências Sociais na UNIFESP e militante da UJC (juventude...
AFGHANISTAN | With the return of the Afghan political situation to the media, Adventists and other evangelicals appropriated the event to assert the superiority of Christianity in the name of "women's freedom." This discourse, however, carries a US imperialist ideological baggage that limits the issue of freedom to how much skin an Afghan woman can publicly show; and, furthermore, it reinforces a misleading notion of Western "Judeo-Christian" superiority, which not only justifies US intervention in the country, but detracts from the moral and religious values of Islam. The freedom of Afghan women, in fact, has strong religious convictions, based on the Koran, and which are often aligned with the feminist struggle. It must be understood on its own terms, not from Western intentions.
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