Posted on 02/22/2021 4:30:50 PM PST by BenLurkin
The women were shot in an apparent targeted attack as they passed through a deserted village near the town of Mirali in North Waziristan tribal district, police chief Shafiullah Gandapur told NBC News.
North Waziristan runs along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan and served as a base for the Pakistani Taliban and other militants, including Al Qaeda, until 2014, when the army said it cleared the region of insurgents.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
The incident comes amid an uptick in attacks claimed by the Pakistani Taliban in the deeply conservative area in recent months and amid concern that the insurgents may be regrouping.
Advocates of girls education have also been targeted. A member of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for shooting and badly wounding Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai in 2012. She had enraged the Taliban by promoting girls’ education.
To this day, women who work for charities are at risk in Pakistan’s conservative tribal areas where many men and militants reject their efforts to empower women in local society and paint them as stooges of the West.
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It could be that Taliban have gotten a good look at Western feminism, and do not want to risk it taking root there.
Teachable moment
I read a terrific book, “The Kabul Beauty School,” by Deborah Rodriguez, an ordinary American and a hairdresser. She felt so horrible about the way women are treated in Afghanistan, she went there with supplies donated by the manufacturers, and taught women to fix one another’s hair. True story and she’s an amazing writer, She finally had to marry some almost-OK muslim man to stay there without getting murdered by the Taliban. As I recall, it was on the NYT bestseller list.
Very brave woman, also very good looking and an excellent writer.
As Roger Scruton pointed out: Liberals across the world are all fighting for the same things. Conservatives, however, are each fighting to protect something unique to their specific cultures.
Libs to argue we didn’t send Pakistan enough $$$$$$$$$ for “gender programs” in 3..2..1...
Islam at its finest.
Moslems at their most aggressive devotion to their religion are called conservatives. A better description would be fervant devotees.
Sounds like a great book. I just put a hold on it at my library. Thanks!
I hope you enjoy it. My daughter, who lived in the Middle East for three years, thought it was terrific. Rodriguez has written other books, one of which I read, “A Little Cup of Friendship,” fiction set in Kabul. AMZ lists other Rodriquez titles too. Who knew?
Muslems don’t wanna hear your women’s lib progressive human being crap. Get your burqa down on your face our you will be shot. Get it?
Just another day in Berzerkistan.
Are you seriously endorsing the Taliban?
Those areas ARE afghani and Pakistani conservative. This doesn’t mean American conservative.
Similarly, feminism there is for women to have the right to not be treated as slaves. It is quite different from third wave feminism
No, anyone who sticks to what has worked in the past is, for that particular region, culture and time, conservative.
The pro monarchy folks in the 1700s were conservative for that time.
Ditto for the term liberal. It varies based on place and time
“It varies based on place and time”
Correct, that is BL’s point.
At present ‘conservative’ is presented as knuckle-dragging retrograde
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