WOMENST 1A03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Burqa, Laura Bush, Postcolonial Feminism
21 Apr 2017
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The war on terrorism justifies itself by purporting to liberate afghan women. There is a belief that learning about islamic culture will somehow give insight and understanding into tragic events such as 9/11 and other topics like how the taliban had come to rule afghanistan. Such cultural framing prevents the serious exploration of the roots and nature of human suffering in this part of the world. There was also a slippage btwn the taliban and terrorists. Laura bush enlisted women to justify american bombing and intervention in. Afghanistan and to make a case of the war on terrorism of which it was allegedly a part. Western (white) people like to save others from each other (e. g. saving from women from brown men) The burqa is central to contemporary concerns about muslim women. It is believed that the ultimate sign of the oppression of afghan women under the. Taliban is that they"re forced to wear the burqa.
