Afghan Bias Campaign Phase II to Begin

The Men's Health America campaign to lobby the media to include news about the brutalization of Afghan men is about to enter phase II. A special thanks to everyone who participated in the first phase, it was a great success, and many letters were published in leading newspapers around the world. Click Read More for an announcement about phase II.

Dear Activist:

On January 21, we will be re-launching the Afghan Men grass-roots campaign.

Why should we be concerned about the plight of males in far-away
Afghanistan? There are two reasons:

1. Civilian Afghan men have been subjected to some of the worst human rights violations over the past decade.

These abuses include forced labor, involuntary conscription, torture, and widespread killings. These men were not targeted because they were engaged in any illegal activities. They were targeted specifically because they were MEN. And 750,000 other Afghan men have been killed or maimed by land-mines, often while trying to earn money to support their families.

These abuses have been summarized in several Special Reports compiled by Men's Health America.

2. Feminists are exploiting the situation in Afghanistan in order to impose a quota system on the new Afghan government.

According to a recent article by Wendy McElroy, "Boss Tweed" Feminism, [December 11, 2001] feminists are using euphemistic phrases such as including the voices of women in government in order to push a feminist utopia on post-Taliban Afghanistan.

This top-down strategy worked in Kosovo, where the parliament now
functions under a UN-mandated quota system that required that one-third of all candidates in the 2001 election were female. A similar tactic was also used in Argentina, which dramatically increased the number of women who have been elected into government.

If Afghanistan goes the way of Kosovo and Argentina, then what countries will be next?

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