Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, girls and women have been subjected to increasing loss of rights.
They aren’t allowed to work.
Schools are closed to girls and women can’t go to university.
Women can’t leave their homes unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.
Any windows that are visible to the public must be painted black so women inside can’t be seen.
Women must wear a burqa, shrouding them in black with only a small mesh-covered opening to allow them to see.
Women are prohibited from being examined by male doctors and female doctors and nurses are prohibited from working,
After last month’s earthquake, rescuers treated men and boys but didn’t help women and adolescent girls.
In response to being banned from school, girls were studying on-line but now the Taliban has stopped internet reception.
Any windows that are visible to the public must be painted black so women inside can’t be seen.
Women must wear a burqa, shrouding them in black with only a small mesh-covered opening to allow them to see.
Women are prohibited from being examined by male doctors and female doctors and nurses are prohibited from working,
After last month’s earthquake, rescuers treated men and boys but didn’t help women and adolescent girls.
In response to being banned from school, girls were studying on-line but now the Taliban has stopped internet reception.
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Where are the protests?
Where are the calls for economic and sporting boycotts?
Why isn’t the world condemning this?
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
9 comments:
The Taliban are Islamic and fit in this instance the anti-Western narratives so it is ''their business''. No capital to gain of votes in it for the bourgeois left (not the genuine Left)
No Jews? No news!
Thank you for writing this blog post to put on the internet
I bet the US announcement at the weekend that they will take Bagram Airbase back with force if necessary will bring out the protestors.
Have you ever considered that most of the world rejects our values, and are under no obligation to accept them ? And maybe they are correct. Maybe Western birth rates wouldn't have plummeted, divorces skyrocketed, and myriad other social ills taken root if we so weren't obsessed with Feminism and other demonstrably corrosive ideologies.
Mainstream, moderate Islam has its own version of feminism. During my many years in the Middle East I came across a great many assertive, confident Muslim women whom one would think twice about crossing.
What definitely got them offside was same-sex marriage and the gender-bender bullshit especially where children are concerned. I was subjected to barrages of criticism of the 'wonderful West' with regard to those two "corrosive ideologies" and all I could do was meekly nod my head in agreement.
Whatever happened to the old phrase, ‘mind your own business’.
Saw yesterday a group of short films by Iranian directors on the topic of 'Women, Life, Freedom' : they were very good, if sometimes harrowing, and deserve greater exposure. But it's hard to engage on Afghan issues. The UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan is a NZer, and did a zoom a couple of months ago. I couldn't participate, and asked the organiser whether it could be recorded. The answer was no, because of the potential risk to Afghani participants.
Thank you for this article, putting plainly and simply that women are considered "non-persons" in Afghanistan, and completely inferior to men in the Islamic world. They are somehow an irrelevancy in the scheme of things, where patriarchal dominance in all matters is the order of the day. This day to day suffering of the women and girls of Afghanistan should be the catch cry of the varsity crowd that love to crow anti Israel rhetoric. Selective morality rules. The United Nations is not united at all and are not fit for purpose. They allow states with appalling human rights records to "fly under the radar" and carry on regardless. The average dog and cat in most civilised countries get a better life than females in Afghanistan. For shame.
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