In the USA, Freedom of Speech seems often discussed only when certain public persons say cuss words or sexual ones, or give unpopular opinions (to and about someone) or the haterati spews.
But what about protecting ‘freedom of speech’ for what many would call ‘good words,’ ‘informative words’ ‘evolutionary words’ that take current thought and either expand it for the good, or else criticize current crimes…all for humanity’s sake? To call such, protection for ‘political speech,’ does not speak to the heart of what Zakia Zaki was doing. She was speaking for the soul.
And now she’s dead. Shot to death yesterday, seven wounds while sleeping with her 20 month old son. In her bedroom, a few miles from Kabul. Her 3 year old son was also sleeping nearby. She is the young mother of six children. The news reports say the children were not harmed. But that means physically. Without their dear mother, with unbearable memory of what occured, it cannot be said ‘the children were not harmed.’
Would that ‘importing democracy’ to Afghanistan had saved Zakia Zaki. Miss Zaki, 35 years old, started her radio career eight years ago and began speaking on Peace Radio, funded by the US Government since 2001.
Since the radio station was underwritten by the US Government, I’d hope they’d step in to help hold the murderers accountable, the reptilian-blooded murderers who, at this time, are alleged to have been some of Zakia’s own male kin…
The BBC reports: “She was one of the few female journalists in the country to speak out during the Taleban’s rule… The BBC’s Charles Haviland in Kabul says that at times Ms Zaki criticised the former mujahideen, some of who have been implicated in war crimes…”
Six days earlier, Miss Shakiba Sanga Amaj, an Afghan 22-year-old young woman who read the news at a private television station was shot dead.
May they, and all who care for them, be comforted: for those who have spoken “a good word…that is like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky.â€
Quran
You can read some of the rest of the story here…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6726117.stm
tx/helaine