Muslim women:

WOMEN WHO KNOW THEIR  PLACE
Barbara Walters, did a story on gender roles in Kabul ,
Afghanistan , several years before the Afghan conflict.

She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still  walk behind
their husbands. Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem happy to maintain the  old custom.

Ms Walters approached one of the Afghani women  and asked, 'Why do you now
seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?'

The woman looked Ms Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation 
said, “Land  mines.”