{"id":320,"date":"2010-08-03T14:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/08\/what-is-more-important-women-in-afghanistan.html"},"modified":"2010-08-03T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T14:52:18","slug":"what-is-more-important-women-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/08\/what-is-more-important-women-in-afghanistan.html","title":{"rendered":"What Is More Important? Women in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIME&#8217;s cover article this week, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,2007238,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban<\/a>,&#8221; quotes an official who talks about the Afghan government&#8217;s willingness to concede women&#8217;s rights in exchange for a truce of sorts with the Taliban. According to Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, &#8220;essentially asked me &#8216;What is more important, protecting the right of a girl to go to school or saving her life?&#8217; &#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It may just be my American idealism at work, but it seems to me that protecting the right of a girl to go to school is something worth dying for.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME&#8217;s cover article this week, &#8220;Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban,&#8221; quotes an official who talks about the Afghan government&#8217;s willingness to concede women&#8217;s rights in exchange for a truce of sorts with the Taliban. According to Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, &#8220;essentially asked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Is More Important? 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