Another example of the mistreatment of women that the Sharia mandates. From The Telegraph, with thanks to jonascot:
Mahadad was resting on a cushion in her sitting room, with a thick bandage covering the burns on her legs. “I’m never going back,” she said. “Look at my leg. How can I go back? In my heart, I never want to go again.”
Mahadad, 38, is one of the 12 survivors of last week’s bomb attack by Taliban on a bus that was carrying women election workers and a child near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. Two of the women and the child were killed in the explosion.
They had been on their way to a registration site to hand out identification cards to women which would allow them to vote in the coming autumn elections. Despite the Taliban claiming responsibility, questions are still being asked about how such an atrocity could have happened.
Mahadad, who did not want her last name to be published, fell silent when asked about her attackers. She shook her head. Then, after a few minutes, she stood up. It was a cue to leave.
“It is very sad,” Fahima Mojadeddi, the only female member of the shura, the province’s tribal council, later said. “Mahadad used to be very active and outspoken on behalf of women. She could debate endlessly. Now she’s too scared to talk.”
As the United Nations tries to organise the registration of up to nine million voters, the number of women coming forward is limited. So far, of the 4.5 million registered, only 36 per cent are female. That figure has increased from 15 per cent from a few months ago but women are still made nervous by the extreme attitudes of men.
Those attitudes are formed and informed by Sharia provisions.