Life on the Edge - Three Sisters

To obtain the full version of Three Sisters on DVD, please go to http://www.tve.org . Three girls in the remote wildernesses of Eritrea must endure age-old rituals and prejudices. They can own but can't plough - land, must submit to local midwives, and let their daughters be circumcised. Or must they? In wartime Eritrea, women commanded tanks, and led troops into battle. They're no longer victims but sisters. Should they refuse to go along with the old ways? Or will they give in to family, friends and neighbours? This film explores the difficult dilemmas confronting all women in rural Eritrea.

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• Eritrea
• women
• gender
• IFAD
• soldiers
• Africa
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• FGM

[erilove26]

You can't say "they themselfs" bacause there are many people that have suffered bc of it. A woman should make those kinds of choices by themselfs and not by their family. FGM is known to cause These urinary and reproductive tract infections

[PREGNANCYagency]

let no baby have to experience the knife! Only love!

[hijabiflower]

it is true that man makes bshit designed to influence and manipulate. However you can tell guidance that comes from God from guidance that comes from man. For example, if you are living under guidance that encourages worship of a man, animal, system, and encourages giving money and power to a man it is FALSE. Why do you think pagan religions have NEVER been a threat to the elite class? Have you ever wondered WHY prophets like Jesus were persecuted? They were TRUE threats to munipulating systems

[a1mint]

Pat doesn't tell me no nothing. I can think very much independently thank you very much. Always have, always will.

Pointing you to a video of someone I think says things well, does not mean at all, whatsoever, that he is some sort of "master". Man you're thinking is warped.

All this god crap just isn't making any sense at all.

Man made bullshit designed to influence and manipulate.

And THAT, my friend, is a FACT. And *I* don't fall for that.

I'm *quite* content with that.

[a1mint]

Bullshit. Everything you barf is bullshit.

It's very clear women don't stand a chance to live the same level of existence in many, if not most Muslim societies. That is a bona fide FACT and you disputing that just means you're in denial. There is tons of evidence to that fact. I really doubt you actually need me to provide evidence. Don't disappoint me.

"godless world" in "chaos"? Exsqueeze me? Baking powder. Religion has to be the prime driver in most of the chaos that's been happening.

[hijabiflower]

Oh so now YOU'RE tellin me that muslim women are oppressed yet once again you judge without asking or better yet doing a survey on if WE think we are oppressed. Its so funny how man thinks he is independent, free and sane when the whole GODLESS world is in complete Chaos and Curroption. The point is you DO have a master. And you DONT think independently. Pat Condell tells you what to believe and the greatest threat to his influence is when people stop listening to man and start listening to God.

[a1mint]

I have to read the whole Quran to have an opinion now? I think not. I'm simply observing the same religious crap in every main stream religion. What makes yours worse is that I'm seeing women suppressed more often than not.

And what arrogance to think that one religion is the right one and another one in a different part of the world is not. It all just depends on where you are born and brought up.

Thanks but no thank. I know better, and I think independently, free, and sane.

[hijabiflower]

Have you ever read the Koran? And I dont mean a few verses here and there. But have you ever checked one out from the library and read it from cover to cover to see what it says? Or do you just through it behind your back because it is branded as RELIGION? I know its hard for you to understand religion. It is IMPOSSIBLE to understand the concept of God or the supernatural by using the rational/left side of your brain. To understand this, we must use BOTH the abstract AND rational brain together

[a1mint]

It makes sense to accept evidence, that's what's science is all about. You observe things and draw conclusions from them.

Religion on the other hand is taking things for granted. Stuff written by people a long time ago, taking face value, and living your life by it. That is just pathetic.

I could cater to a discussion that would argue intelligent design, but the utter crap that the bible and quran barfs up is beyond idiocy.

[hijabiflower]

And? Why should we just accept scientific facts when they are ALWAYS eventually replaced with newer paradigms? And how do you know I dont believe in Evolution or carbon dating? You would be bewildered to know that Islam is the only religion that argues that Science PROVES the existence of God. For example, Einstien recognized that there are sooo many laws of the universe and that everything is being held together by ONE single Hydrogen Atom! The Koran says wisdom comes to those who reflect

[a1mint]

I think religion is a bunch of superstitious crap written by people a long time ago, designed to manipulate people and fit them into a mold so they can be controlled and exploited.

This goes for all religion, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.

One of the wackiest concepts is things like the world being mere 1000's of years old, mankind not having evolved from apes, disputing dinosaurs and carbon dating, etc.