Women rally against American’s abduction

Burqa-clad Muslim women rally against American’s abduction by Islamic terrorists

Noor Khan with the Associated Press reported recently on a Kandahar, Afghanistan rally of about 500 Afghan women gathered for a rare mass protest.

At issue for them was the kidnapping of a female American aid worker who had taught many of them simple crafts to help in their ability to trade and make an independent living.

They called on officials to find the captive American and urged the kidnappers to release her.

Officials said they still had not identified any suspects in the kidnapping of Cyd Mizell and her Afghan driver, Abdul Hadi.

Gunmen abducted the two Saturday in a residential neighborhood of the southern city of Kandahar.

Mizell graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth in 1990. Her family, living outside Seattle, declined to comment Monday. Seminary officials also declined to comment.

The demonstration by so many Afghan women was a rare display of women's wishes. The 90-minute meeting was filled with prayers and speeches calling on government leaders to act.

Rona Tareen, director of the Kandahar Women's Association, urged Mizell's captors to free her immediately, saying she had helped Kandahar's women with small-business projects.

"She was here helping the women in Kandahar. She was trying to get their embroidery outside of the country," Tareen told the women who gathered in a Kandahar wedding hall.

"Her kidnapping is against our culture and tradition," Tareen said. "We demand that the kidnappers free her immediately."

Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid said Tuesday that there were no suspects in the case. No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.

Those close to the situation in Afghanistan said Mizell would wear the Islamic burqa in public as a demonstration of honoring local customs.

She was wearing the all-covering dress worn by Muslim women in keeping with Shari’a Islamic laws, when she was taken.

She is noted as well-versed in the local Pashtu language, according to colleagues, and her work on aid projects for the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation included teaching English at Kandahar University and giving embroidery lessons at a girls' school.

Well, we can’t have Islamic women learning English or embroidery, now can we…may be too decadently western, too independent and individual in their own artistic world.

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