9/11’s dark shadow: Women in Afghanistan remind us about courage.

Helen Keller once said, “ Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.” For a beautiful reason, this quote rings a bell of praise, rings a bell of admiration for a present-day situation in the currently violent inhabited region of Afghanistan.

The Afghan women are the ones mainly under fire in a war-torn Afghanistan with new norms in place; norms that defy the rights of women living in the country. It is a stereotype that with norms like this in place, women would hide under protection or hope for the cover of a man to protect them, but however, this may not prove to be the case. Abandoned, the women of Afghanistan have taken control of the situation single-handed, the brave women community from Afghanistan. Women are defying the norms that defy their rights, plainly screaming “No” to anything that would “calm” them down. Conducting marches and protests, the world has seen a new revolution; a revolution that would go down in history as one a kind, kind of revolution. The Taliban, as soon as they gained power, eliminated everything that would give women a sense of human status. They have literally eliminated the Ministry of Women’s Welfare in their new cabinet. This, however, has not discouraged most of the women from Afghanistan who have stayed back in their war-torn country to fight for what belongs to them. It takes everything to build up courage and look up at someone that is terrorizing the entire world, look him in the eye, and demand for justice, especially if you are a woman but with a largely infused courage state of mind, the women of Afghanistan have left the probable fear of being up beaten up and prosecuted, protest that they are given what belongs to them, they are fighting a cause that would make history remember them, that would allow future generations to thank them. It is unlikely that we will know how long this situation in Afghanistan will last for but we do know that what those women are doing will matter. It will matter in the long run, it will matter to their ancestors who might have died as a result of these violent measures to control their activity that would give the basic status of being human. It will matter to the present-day generation who will look up at these women with eyes filled with awe and hearts filled with courage.