雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第9章:電臺毛拉(10)
That’s what they did in Waziristan when they went after kidnappers and bandits.
他們在瓦濟里斯坦就是這麼做的。當時他們四處追捕綁票犯及盜匪。
After, when they get power, they behave like the criminals they once hunted down.’
事後，一旦他們掌權，他們的行徑就會和他們曾經追捕的罪犯們沒有什麼兩樣。
Fazlullah’s broadcasts were often aimed at women.
法茲魯拉的廣播節目常把矛頭指向女性。
He must have known that many of our men were away from home, working in coal mines in the south or on building sites in the Gulf.
他當然知道在我們這裏多數男人都離鄉背井，遠赴南方的礦坑或波斯灣的工地討生活。
Sometimes he would say, ‘Men, go outside now.
有時候他會說：男人們，請走出家門，我正在跟女人說話。
I am talking to the women.’ Then he’d say, ‘Women are meant to fulfil their responsibilities in the home.
然後他說：女人天生應該負起持家的重任。
Only in emergencies can they go outside, but then they must wear the veil.’
只有在緊急的情況下才可以離家，但若如此，她們必須戴上面紗。
Sometimes his men would display the fancy clothes that they said they had taken from ‘decadent women’ to shame them.
有時他的手下們會公開展示一些華美的服裝，並說這是他們從墮落的女人們手中拿來的，藉此羞辱她們。
My friends at school said their mothers listened to the Radio Mullah although our headmistress Madam Maryam told us not to.
我在學校的朋友們說他們的母親都聽從電臺毛拉的教誨，但我們的班主任瑪麗安女士卻告訴我們不必理會他。
