Dear HA!
Daghestan is a southern republic in Russia and is
Muslim. The main thing daghestanis derive from the Muslim
religion, I think, is that women aren’t worth a lot. I don’t want to
offend anyone so I’d
like to tell you that we have some people who truly believe in Islam,
while for
the rest it’s just a new popular movement. After 70 years of atheist
propaganda
from a communist government, many people have turned to religion. Most
of these
people are young. The way I see it, the new religious feeling is just
a new way
of self-expression, something new that everyone wishes to try on. So,
many
young men have no clue about the actual religion of Islam, but are
simply
taking advantage of disrespecting women. Women here are quite often
just in the
husband’s shadow; cheap and powerful
washers/cleaners/baby-sitters.
Anyone
with money in Daghestan can do anything; no wonder they brought back a
tradition of women as a thing. Young girls go to university only for
getting
married (more chances to find a fiancee there). They don’t have any
wishes of a
career; this is almost impossible in Daghestan, anyway. Men are like
little
dictators at home; everything goes like he wants it. Women have no
rights but they do have a lot of responsibilities. Women have no personal
life or entertainment.
Unfortunately
there are so many other problems to deal with, quite often we don't
pay any
attention to women’s needs.
As
for our education, it has declined extremely. Government doesn’t give
the funds
necessary for equipment; they don’t even have enough money to provide
for the
miserable wages of teachers. Everyone who was able to find work
somewhere else
left the universities, so an average teacher is an old, sick, poor
man. The
University of Daghestan has some mixture of poverty and stupidity. All
of the
departments are poor with the exception of the Business and Law
departments.
The education system is corrupt. Deans collect money for getting
people into
college. Everyone knows it, but no one cares. That is quite scary
because these
graduates don’t know anything. A surgeon can kill you during the
surgery
because he didn't study and he just paid for his diploma.
What
we see is uneducated youth who have gone into religion, at least what
they
think religion is. Our youth is quite criminal because our local
government is
blended into the criminal
structure. In
addition, our youth is unemployed. Little Daghestan is raising a
generation
which won’t ever prosper. Even worse, all this shows a deterioration
of
Daghestan culture, education, and science.
Daghestan
is a little republic with a lot of multiple ethnic backgrounds.
Something
happened in friendly Daghestan in recent years when each nationality
began to
fight with others for lands and rights. Each one has a leader of its
movement,
organization, and press. None of these movements can agree on
anything. No
compromises, only threats and insults. It’s so tense with these
changes in our
country. More and more often, we hear that scary word "nationalism,"
which means a war for Daghestan. People aren’t sure what will happen
tomorrow.
It
might happen that the society of Daghestan will accept a call for war from
the
people who don’t value anything else. We can go back to the Middle Ages
with their wild laws. There is a chance to straighten up the present
situation,
a
very weak chance. . .
When so many problems are facing Daghestan,
no one cares for women’s problems, even the women themselves. There are
many
other troubles to deal with. Hopefully, there will be a time when we
won’t
have
anything else to discuss except women’s
issues in Daghestan.
Map from
http://www.kavkaz-club.org/dagestan/e_geograf.htm
