Fear is their Religion
Peggy Elliot speaks out against the Taliban's treatment of women in Afghanistan.
Imagine, if possible, a country where at least 97% of the female population suffers from major depression; where at least 86% of them display symptoms of significant anxiety and, the most horrifying, at least one-quarter of these women - nearly one-quarter of the entire female population - are seriously considering ending their misery by the means of suicide.
Afghanistan, a remote and treacherous land, has survived the pain and misery of war only to be taken hostage by the all-invasive control of the powerful Islamic faction, the Taliban, which now governs large sec[...]