Skip navigation
Sidebar -

Advanced search options →

Welcome

Welcome to CEMB forum.
Please login or register. Did you miss your activation email?

Donations

Help keep the Forum going!
Click on Kitty to donate:

Kitty is lost

Recent Posts


Do humans have needed kno...
Today at 08:40 AM

Qur'anic studies today
by zeca
Yesterday at 12:02 PM

Excellence and uniqueness
by akay
December 24, 2025, 04:40 AM

ركن المتحدثين هايد بارك ل...
by akay
December 23, 2025, 03:44 PM

New Britain
December 21, 2025, 02:47 PM

What music are you listen...
by zeca
December 06, 2025, 10:06 PM

Lights on the way
by akay
November 29, 2025, 12:39 PM

Marcion and the introduct...
by zeca
November 05, 2025, 11:34 PM

Ex-Muslims on Mythvision ...
by zeca
November 02, 2025, 07:58 PM

اضواء على الطريق ....... ...
by akay
October 23, 2025, 01:36 PM

Random Islamic History Po...
by zeca
October 07, 2025, 09:50 AM

What's happened to the fo...
October 06, 2025, 11:58 AM

Theme Changer

 Topic: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha

 (Read 4711 times)
  • 1« Previous thread | Next thread »
  • New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     OP - October 16, 2010, 01:24 AM


    Quote
    Mutilated Afghan woman unveils new nose
    (AFP) – 1 day ago
    LOS ANGELES — An Afghan woman whose mutilated face was shown on the cover of Time magazine has appeared in public for the first time with a new prosthetic nose.
    As a young woman Bibi Ayesha's nose and ears were mutilated by her husband under the authoritarian Taliban regime, and she came to California a few months ago, aged 18, to undergo reconstructive surgery.
    She appeared on the front of Time in its August 9 edition under the rhetorical headline "What Happens if we leave Afghanistan?" -- triggering debate about whether she was being exploited for political ends.
    She is expected to spend months in California having reconstructive surgery, staying with host families.
    In the meantime she has had a prosthetic one fitted -- and this week she appeared in public for the first time at a gala event in Los Angeles organized by the Grossman Burn Foundation, which is caring for her.
    "Bibi Ayesha continues to make great progress and it is our hope that her doctors will clear her for surgery soon," said the Foundation in a statement.
    She was married to a Taliban militia member when she was 12 years old, but suffered years of abuse. She tried to run away but was caught, and her husband cut off her nose and ears while his brother held her down.
    At this week's gala, she was presented with an award by Maria Shriver, the wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and met privately with former US first lady Laura Bush.


    Before:


    After:
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #1 - October 16, 2010, 01:27 AM

    Pretty  Smiley

    Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence

  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #2 - October 16, 2010, 01:33 AM

    Religion amputates and disfigures, whereas science-based medicine restores.

    "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." -- Bertrand Russell

    Baloney Detection Kit
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #3 - October 16, 2010, 09:37 AM

    Am I so glad to see that news dear kb999.,   I wrote about her at http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewtopic.php?p=101940#p101940

    she is pretty ......



    That is Aisha.. Aisha.. ha ! what  a name..

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/03/17/iyw.afghan.bibi.aisha.cnn

    watch the movie  in the above link.,
    "there is nothing left  in life but
    ..... fight..fight and fight....."

    Quote
    "When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out," 19-year-old Bibi Aisha of Afghanistan says with chilling candor. Her beauty is still stunning and her confidence inspiring. It takes a moment for the barbaric act committed against her to register in your mind and sight. Wearing her patterned scarf and with roughly painted nails she shares her story.

    "It felt like there was cold water in my nose, I opened my eyes and I couldn't even see because of all the blood," she remembers.

    It was an act of Taliban justice for the crime of shaming her husband's family. This story began when Aisha was just 8 years old.

    Quote
    Her father had promised her hand in marriage, along with that of her baby sister's, to another family in a practice called "baad."

    "Baad" in Pashtunwali, the law of the Pashtuns, is a way to settle a dispute between rival families.

    At 16, she was handed over to her husband's father and 10 brothers, who she claims were all members of the Taliban in Oruzgan province. Aisha didn't even meet her husband because he was off fighting in Pakistan.

    "I spent two years with them and became a prisoner," she says. (Watch more of the interview with Aisha)

    Tortured and abused, she couldn't take it any longer and decided to run away. Two female neighbors promising to help took her to Kandahar province.

    But this was just another act of deception. When they arrived to Kandahar her female companions tried to sell Aisha to another man.

    All three women were stopped by the police and imprisoned. Aisha was locked up because she was a runaway. And although running away is not a crime, in places throughout Afghanistan it is treated as one if you are a woman.

    A three-year sentence was reduced to five months when President Hamid Karzai pardoned Aisha. But eventually her father-in-law found her and took her back home.

    That was the first time she met her husband. He came home from Pakistan to take her to Taliban court for dishonoring his family and bringing them shame.

    The court ruled that her nose and ears must be cut off. An act carried out by her husband in the mountains of Oruzgan where they left her to die. But she survived.

    And with the help of an American Provincial Reconstruction Team in Oruzgan and the organization Women for Afghan Women (WAW), she is finally getting the help and protection she needs. Offers have been pouring in to help Aisha, but there are many more women suffering in silence.



    I wish  Americans can take some more women from that ROTTEN LAND WITH  FULL OF  BRUTES

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54liHE5oFhM&p=4C3ECC762D31FD82

     

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #4 - October 16, 2010, 10:00 AM

    Sad to read there are so many others like Aisha, but great to see Aisha cured.  Smiley
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #5 - October 16, 2010, 02:01 PM

    Yay!
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #6 - October 16, 2010, 02:54 PM

    awww,thats nice  Smiley
    cute aswell
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #7 - October 16, 2010, 03:44 PM

    That's great, but I wish she didn't have to go through all that in the first place.
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #8 - October 16, 2010, 04:19 PM

    ^^ +1

    Yeah, makes me sad she had to go through that, but really glad to see the surgery did wonder for her. Wish her all the best.

    "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
    ~ Douglas Adams
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #9 - October 31, 2010, 09:09 PM

    found this a while back:

    Is TIME’s Afghan “cover girl” really a victim of mutilation by the Taleban?

    Pakistan Zindabad? ya Pakistan sey Zinda bhaag?

    Long Live Pakistan? Or run with your lives from Pakistan?
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #10 - October 31, 2010, 10:40 PM

     Cheesy Cheesy You can refute just about anything I guess! How is a person who has not witnessed anything to know the truth?



    The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
                                   Thomas Paine

    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored !- Aldous Huxley
  • Re: New nose for Afghan girl - Bibi Aisha
     Reply #11 - October 31, 2010, 11:07 PM


    Hmm.. Interesting article.  Thanks for sharing. Afro

    "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." -- Bertrand Russell

    Baloney Detection Kit
  • 1« Previous thread | Next thread »