Malalai Joya - Interview by Cindy Sheehan (1 of 2)

Malalai Joya (born April 25, 1978) is an Afghan parliamentarian who has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she has publicly denounced the presence of warlords and war criminals in the parliament. She is an outspoken critic of both the Taliban as well as the present Afghan government of Karzai and its western supporters.

The daughter of a former medical student who lost a leg while fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Malalai Joya was 4 years old when her family fled Afghanistan in 1982 to the refugee camps of Iran and later Pakistan. After the Soviet withdrawal, Malalai Joya returned to Afghanistan in 1998 during the Taliban's reign. As a young woman she worked as a social activist and was named a director of the non-governmental group Organization of Promoting Afghan Women's Capabilities (OPAWC) in the western provinces of Herat and Farah. In May 2007, Joya was suspended from the parliament on the grounds that she had insulted fellow representatives in a television interview. Her suspension, which is currently being appealed, has generated protest internationally and appeals for her reinstatement have been signed by high profile writers, intellectuals and politicians. Joya has been compared to the symbol of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi.

TIME magazine named Malalai Joya to the 2010 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Joya has written a memoir with Canadian writer Derrick O' Keefe under the title of "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice" (2009).
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[MattSingh1]

Malalai Joya= the hideous, sadomasochistic version of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Joya should be ashamed of herself. As for Sheehan, thankfully Christopher Hitchens has already Hitchslapped her many times.

[MattSingh1]

@bapyou Typical anti-war masochism; you're a total buffoon if you think women had ANY rights under Taliban-run Afghanistan. Your masochism knows no bounds; far left types such as yourself should've been standing shoulder to should with both interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet instead of standing and fighting you stood down, much to your shame. Both conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan should’ve been a cause for the western, secular left. Instead they cowered from the treat of Fascist Islam.

[bapyou]

@psaikoski "What kind of elections would the Afghan people have today, without the Allied inervention?"

If you think the corrupt US-puppets "elected" in the fraud-ridden referenda of Afghanistan are any sort of democracy, you are one seriosuly deluded asshole.

But then, what else could one expect from an apologist for Empire?

Go to sleep, you stupid fuck.

Kill you later.

[psaikoski]

@bapyou Your thinking of democracy under Taliban-held-rule is asinine. What kind of elections would the Afghan people have today, without the Allied inervention? An election where every voter's fingers would be cut off from the Taliban. "Bombs have never brought democracy to anyone"? I give you some examples:WWI, all the people under the monarchies were repulics; After WWII: Germany, Austria and Japan were a republic; Korea-War: South Korea was a republic; and so on and so on! Ignorant.

[bapyou]

@psaikoski "Joya was in Afghanistan parliament only due to Allied intervention!"

Your comments are ridiculous. Read her book. Joya was an activist long before the US illegally invaded her country. She founded & ran orphanages & clandestine schools at great risk to her life & the life of her family & associates. To say that she was elected to the Afghan Parliament due to the US invasion is an asinine statement. As Joya never tires of saying: Bombs have never brought democracy to anyone.

[psaikoski]

How the Hell does she think shall the Afghanis take up the fight on theirselfes against the Taliban?? The Afghanistan Army is just in training (under Allied assistance by the way!) and is never ready to fight against harddies and armed Talibans.

I think her remarks are criminal, criminal in regards to all the Afghani people who will perish in a helpless fight against the Taliban.

Joya was in Afghanistan parliament only due to Allied intervention!