for what he would do the hoped for what he would do prominent american philosopher and activist noam chomsky wrote a column saying a truly worthy choice would have been our next guest an afghan activist champion of human and women's rights also an outspoken critic of the afghan war and government she knows both very well firsthand a former member of the afghan parliament she was suspended for her sharp critique of it now she dodges assassination attempts she's author of a woman among warlords the extraordinary story of an afghan who dared to raise her voice yet she almost wasn't allowed to raise it in the u.s. earlier i spoke with her and asked why she thinks a country that supposedly champions women's rights in afghanistan first denied a visa to an afghan woman working so hard to defend them she was coming here for a book tour joya. i think it has a little because. the sponsor. closer excuse they made their. living and. i'm implying. do you know why i'm living underground in this with the us we know who you are it was the last response and that's why i believe that each time and western cou

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citizen status or something like twenty cities i believe across the globe that went through through noam chomsky countless others have really rallied to take this cause what makes this precipitate stand out so much. well the media has become i know in the years that nearly eight years i guess it was that i represented of i spoke on the road only does that happen you came i may meet somebody i not only in the fight against that on april twenty thousand men women and children on death row surround the world but let me also was great symbolic of a legal system but also in great light miserably and i wanted the united states but around the world. i have said this before and i will repeat it again now and that is why i do not believe when you have broken all would be on death row if you were not african-american you were not black and the common denominator in cases like this that still symbolizes not only race but the fact that he was clearly already fully represented by the trial and on appeal and there was a lot of prejudice around his trial but i was even schemes that only a russian police office