"When I see my brother leaving for school, I feel broken, Earlier, my brother used to say I won't go to school without you. I hugged him and said you go, I'll join you later. People tell my parents you shouldn't worry, you have sons. I wish we had the same rights."
The Taliban have said that schools and universities are only temporarily closed to women and girls until a "suitable environment" can be created.... Regarding some of the other restrictions, the Taliban say they were imposed because women were not wearing a hijab (head covering) or following Islamic laws....
"We always wear a hijab. But it doesn't make a difference. What do they mean? I don't understand," Tamana says....
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Sucks to be her. I guess her people should have fought harder.
For God’s sake, leave the Afghanis alone.
You didn’t learn anything from inflicting 20 years of war and death on them? Stop trying to improve Afghanis.
Stop trying to export feminism. We’ve got a big enough problem trying to stomp out this insane ideology at home. The ideology has gone mad and now supports pretending that men are women and sexually mutilating kids. Your ideology has gone insane, prof. You don’t seem to be noticing.
Feminism and gay worship are the spearheads of the CIA war in Ukraine. Are you willing, Althouse, to fight a nuclear war over this madness?
Sad. But it's their country, their culture, their religion, their rules. They're the only ones who can fix it. Our job should be to keep them away from us, so they can't spread their misery our way.
Waiting for, "Who are we to judge?".
It's unfortunate that more American boys aren't dying over there for her right to go to school and learn more about LGBT history and American police brutality. I'm sure Biden is to blame for this somehow.
Obvious sarcasm:
Biden left Afghanistan posthaste because women's liberation there was in conflict with his pro-transgender, anti-TERF agenda at home. Women must be veiled and muzzled everywhere and in every way.
One Biden forces women out of sports and schools and prevents them from traveling, he can enforce...global population control...by hair sniffing along with the Gates-Weinstein-Epstein-Clyburn-Franken axis...
How many boys need to die on the battle field to secure the girls rights to an education.
Unless you are willing send your children into war to fight for your cause, nothing can be done.
For sure writing another think piece will not move the needle.
Democrats are dumb, total idiots.
"When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 in a lightning takeover following the withdrawal of US troops, the radical Islamist group appeared keen to distance itself from its earlier period of rule in the 1990s, presenting itself as more moderate and committed to the internal peace process. Among its new commitments, the Taliban pledged to honor women’s rights within the norms of 'Islamic law.'”
Pelosi, Biden, Blinken et al. thought this meant equal rights for all. Of course, they still believe Jussie Smollet.
While there are still Americans in Afghanistan, there is some strong evidence of what else the USA left them. Your tax dollars at work.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/update-taliban-releases-video-of-fields-of-us-military-vehicles-piles-of-us-high-end-weapons-and-rooms-filled-with-stacks-of-100-dollar-bills-joe-biden-surrendered-by-joe-biden/
If she lived in the Ukraine, people would care. Alas, she is not in Europe.
Thanks Joe
It's unfortunate, but at some point you need to walk away. I have to hope US intentions for Afghanistan were initially honorable, but were subsequently drastically mishandled. But hey, more opportunities lie in Ukraine!
The boys must be in school learning that they must never let the girls be educated. Perhaps the Iranian turn on this, if successful, will reach their neighbors. Foreign men in camo can’t fix this.
There are more goats in Afghanistan than there are flush toilets - Ann Coulter
- Krumhorn
The Taliban said a lot of things when they were retaking control. Mostly lies. But it worked. They're in control. Now Afghanistan is returning to the stone age failure its most violent factions want it to be. They had 20 years to from stable institutions and they didn't do it. Biden sped along their demise with his ham-fisted abandonment, but I think Afghanistan was destined to end up back here no matter how long we stayed or how hard we tried.
The only way to fix the problem is if all the women leave. Then wait 30 years and the problem will be fixed.
Too bad.
How many villages are you willing to burn to the ground to save them, Althouse?
have Taliban banned home shcooling?
are Taliban getting advice from USA Teachers Union etc.?
why can't brother study/help out with sis ?
Simple Solution!
Afghan girls, should Just Start Identifying as Afghan BOYS!
Problem Solved!!
I keep Hearing, That america's The MOST Racist/Sexist/Bigoted/Fascist/Transphobic place on EARTH
That's TRUE, isn't it? i mean, our left wouldn't LIE to US, would they?
Gotta keep that birth rate up. Perhaps the biggest correlation with low birth rates is female schooling.
Then in twenty years we can be told how unfair it is that Americans have such a small share of the world population and such a large share of the world wealth.
If I was the BBC I might be asking questions about the same “culture” in the UK behavior toward females ( especially young white English girls ) and where that leads ( see Rotherham, Rochdale, etc). The same mindset prevails and it’s just such a MYSTERY where it originates. But “community cohesion” and “respect” doesn’t let you call a spade a spade. Not in Afghanistan or in BBC land.
Maybe the bigger story isn’t the “plight” of these girls but the bigger picture of where this type of behavior toward girls is normal.
At least they're not bullying though.
There are more goats in Afghanistan than there are flush toilets - Ann Coulter
The same would apply to Iowa, and hogs. But we are proud of the fact.
Oh, we’re supposed to believe that now America’s feminists care about the plight of Afghani women? I didn’t notice them giving a used Tampon applicator about their plight back when they could have done something more than wring their hands and emote on camera. It would have resembled real work a bit too much, I suppose.
the Taliban pledged to honor women’s rights within the norms of 'Islamic law.'”
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do we know for fact that great propeht patriarch kept his women barefood pregnant and ignorant?
his wife was a business woman
They had 20 years to from stable institutions and they didn't do it.
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with woke americans in charge are you sure about this claim that they had opportunity?
BBC propaganda. Hey BBC, do a story on the Afghan Girls:
1) Happy they're not being bombed anymore
2) Happy their fathers/brothers aren't fighting and dying in a war
3) Happy they are NOT going to school because they found it boring
4) Happy they can feel empowered to be religious and practice Islam.
When did the first women's college in the USA come about? Maybe 1870. Before then women couldn't go to college. Its so sad the British Empire didn't invade us, and give us female higher eduation.
In Afghanistan the girls stay home.
In America the girls breed for two fathers, take a knee to a father identifying as a mother, sacrifice babies for medical progress, and stay home for the cargo cult.
Equipment, funding, and premature ejaculation... evacuation. Biden is like Obama, a new Iraq... Afghan war and the World War Spring series.
That said, for the days that preceded America's disastrous war in Afghanistan with the Soviets. Deja vu. Good luck, Ukraine, land of the Slavs [ery].
Afghanistan is a poor country 10,000 miles away on other side of the globe. I wish them well, but they aren't my problem. Nor do I need to feel superior to them by insulting their way of life.
I'm more concerned with problems in the USA. Y'know, the country I Live in.
The disgusting "eff 'em" response here was to be expected.
Nothing we can do until they are willing to actually fight for it. It will be interesting to see what happens in Iran, but my bet is on the government.
It takes alot of schooling to learn how to operate the billions in military equipment and weaponry biden, the democraticals/LLR-democraticals and GOPe-ers gifted them.
Who, in their right mind bought the administration's crap that the Taliban would play nice?
Oh yeah:
The same people that thought the Taliban would support women in education also think:
Iran would give up the bomb pursuit....
China will help end CO2 emissions if we just gut our economy...
A man can be pregnant/there is no advantage in sports to trans women....
A baby is just a clump of cells until that last few inches of the birth canal....
BLM/Antifa riots were mostly peaceful....
Cops have declared open season on black men....
The solution to our grossly failing schools is more money/teaching equity/ forcing kids to stay in public schools....
Paper straws and electric vehicles will save the planet...
Republicans are the group that wanted to defund the police...
Damn those lying eyes!
I feel sorry for her, but not sorry enough to send other people's sons to fight for her human rights.
You know, surrendering all that military hardware to the Taliban probably won't help with any democratic or human rights change in Afghanistan.
The tragedy of the US involvement in Afghanistan was that American university-trained academics were able to deceive these girls with their useless teachings. They taught "art" and "feminism" when these girls needed to learn small unit tactics and how to kill a rapist and his government supporters.
Evil, American men, mostly white, made schooling available to Afghan women/girls, but the American professors and privileged, white, college-credentialed feminists worked to put a stop to that. Mostly, so, now they can lament how the evil, American men aren't doing something about the noble, devout Islamic Taliban keeping girls from schooling.
How about the useless American professors and academics develop material so that these girls can learn without having to do dangerous travel and sit as a target so some idiot can pontificate from the front of the room?
Quite unfortunate. Not sure what could be done about it, other than stay there for multiple generations, perhaps forever. The alternative to the Taliban was a corrupt, ineffectual government that collapsed immediately when any pressure was applied. It is quite possible that the best-case scenario for the country would be an authoritarian dictator with at least semi-liberal policies. The Taliban, for all its faults, actually believes in something and believes in it quite fervently. It is difficult to defeat something with nothing.
This is not unusual in this country's history. Trying to keep this area under control for any extended period of time has been both futile and costly.
Afghanistan is not like Korea, is not like Germany, is not like Somalia, is not like somewhere in the Middle East etc.
The propaganda mill seems to have paused its Ukraine work to return for a moment to Afghanistan. Both are hopeless.
Internet and home school, so many resources for free. If rural, Use the brother's books. If the parents want her educated, they will find a way. Books are available.
"How about the useless American professors and academics develop material so that these girls can learn without having to do dangerous travel and sit as a target so some idiot can pontificate from the front of the room?"
How about the useless American professors and academics buy a one-way ticket to Afghanistan and pick up a weapon to liberate these poor girls from real misogyny. They'll get shredded by machinegun and mortar fire, but at least they'll die doing something 100x more useful and we won't have to listen to their screeching about the horrific misogynist dystopia known as the USA.
Win win.
I doubt that Afghani boys are educated in any way that a secular American would consider substantive. My guess is that the poor ones are educated to be canon fodder.
Afghani society is infamous for sexual exploitation and abuse of boys by strongmen and warlords.
But, as Scott Adams says, nobody gives a fuck about men.
My bet is that the vast majority of Afghani women, with the exception of an urban elite class, want their children raised as traditional, devout Muslims. The reason the U.S. expedition failed and got its ass kicked out is because no real, Islamic Afghani was on our side.
Feminism and gay worship constitute an imperial assault on every traditional, religious society in the world.
Who are we to pass judgement on the Afghani culture?
Remember the Northern Alliance? We came, we saw, we reconciled. We left.
Demonstrations in pink pussy hats should do the trick.
Oh. Sorry. These girls actually are repressed. That was not predictable. QuidProJoe told me so!
The disgusting "eff 'em" response here was to be expected.
Mark, are you prepared to strap on some gear and go into Afghanistan to save them? Or is it just that you are willing for others to do that? Where were you on this when Biden abruptly ordered the airport to be abandoned?
In the alternative, should we all just form an affinity circle and clutch our pearls?
- Krumhorn
If there's one thing we should learn from history, it is what Robespierre said: Nobody likes armed missionaries. And make no mistake, Westerners in that part of the world are always perceived as missionaries by the vast majority of the natives (even or especially 'secular' Westerners).
The war cry "We're infidel perverts, and we're here to save you!" was not convincing.
@Krumhorn
And New Zealand has far more sheep than toilets of all kinds. Still a nice place to visit, if a little bit pinko.
On the upside, at least they aren't being instructed in queer theory at age 6.
Saying "not my fight" is not the same thing as saying "fuck 'em". Opportunity costs are a thing, I'm sure most people who are not progressives understand that.
The USA has no right to go to Afghanistan and kill people because they don't like Afghani school policy. This is most immoral retarded shit, I've ever read.
What's next, we call in a B52 and Cruise missile strike on Dubai because they don't have transgender surgery? Americans are INSANE!
Mark, literally nobody said that. Just you.
Get on over there boy, show the grownups how it’s done you fucking piece of shit.
My comment at 9:10 should definitely be interpreted to include Mark at 9:32 and Mason G at 2:36. All of you had 20 God-damned years to do something but instead waited until doing anything at all is utterly hopeless. Bitch all you want — bitches.
The BBC could have spent a considerable portion of the last 40 years telling people just how bad things are for women in Iraq, a country where women actually had rights at one time. A country where we have had very real opportunities to make an impact, instead of promoting the idea that it is anti-Islamic bigotry to oppose the regime in power.
The misogynistic patriarchy of the western world has nothing to offer those girls. Ask any feminist.
I do not recall reading that any women took up arms to fight against the Taliban. They are the majority of the country, and they acceded passively to the Taliban takeover, as did most of the men. Now they are experiencing the consequences, which despite the Taliban's reassurances to the contrary were easy to foresee from its previous period in power. It is sad to watch, but they had their chance at something different and not enough cared to make it last.
Krumhorn said...
There are more goats in Afghanistan than there are flush toilets - Ann Coulter
That's probably true.. Also kinda irrelevant.
Hogs outnumber people in Iowa, by MORE than 7 to 1*
So, there SURE are more pigs in Iowa, than there are flush toilets
Hogs outnumber people in Iowa, by MORE than 7 to 1* As the saying goes..
"Hogs outnumber people in Iowa, by MORE than 7 to 1, but not once have Hogs controlled BOTH House of the Iowa Legislature
I really loved to see this blog, and these many working and connecting bloggers; I would love some people to get in touch with me and help me set up my blog.
"All of you had 20 God-damned years to do something but instead waited until doing anything at all is utterly hopeless. Bitch all you want — bitches."
I'm not bitching about "doing something" now (or at any other time, for that matter). Why do you think I am?
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