Posted on 08/17/2021 7:24:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Two days after sweeping into Kabul, the Taliban — known for barbaric acts across Afghanistan — on Tuesday declared an “amnesty” and urged women to join their government in an attempt by the insurgents to lure women into politics while posing as more moderate than that of their brutal predecessors.
But many Afghans remain skeptical, with older generations recalling the Taliban’s Islamist rule, which included severe restrictions on women as well as amputations and public executions before they were ousted by the US-led invasion after 9/11.
Many residents have stayed home since the Taliban seized Kabul and remain fearful after the takeover saw prisons emptied and armories looted.
Many women have expressed dread that the Western experiment to expand their rights and remake their nation would not survive the resurgent — and likely repressive — Taliban regime.
The promises of “amnesty” from Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s cultural commission, were the first comments on how the group might govern on a national level.
On Monday, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington would recognize a new government as long as it “upholds rights, doesn’t harbor terrorists, and protects the rights of women and girls.”
Samangani’s remarks remained vague as the Taliban are still negotiating with political leaders of the country’s fallen government — and no formal handover deal has been announced.
It also was unclear what he meant by an “amnesty,” although other Taliban leaders have claimed they won’t seek revenge on those who worked with the Afghan government or foreign countries — despite some in Kabul alleging that the militants have compiled lists of people who cooperated with the government and are seeking them out door to door.
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LOL Check back in around Nov 1
WATCH: The State Department calls on the Taliban to form an “inclusive and representative government.”
https://rumble.com/vl9v7q-the-state-department-calls-on-the-taliban-to-form-an-inclusive-and-represen.html
What about the trans* people? :snicker:
It’s a trap!
It was always inevitably going to come to this point. The Afghans themselves have to work out their own consensus on how they will live. Americans simply should not be involved.
Hope the women don’t lose their heads with glee...
;-)
They are trying to out all the women who they think are liberals.
After the revolution in Iran, they put some moderates in positions. Then after power was consolidated, the moderates were executed.
Raping the same dozen or so girls is getting old?
This is Taliban 2.0. No head chopping in the main square. They’ll dial it back from 11 to 9 and rake in billions in “aid” from the west while working the Chicoms.
They will get rid of a lot of people..but will probably keep people who are no threat to them working in the government..a government worker is a government worker..look at this country
The Taliban ran a brutal repressive regime before. They are dedicated to sharia law. They were a Muslim theocracy before. I would be shocked if they have suddenly become a kinder gentler Taliban, somehow devoted to women’s rights and western values.
The beheadings have already begun.
Mao did this.
“Let 10,000 flowers bloom” is what he said.
Then he killed every single one of those flowers.
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> It also was unclear what he meant by an “amnesty,” <
It means that “collaborators” will be butchered only in places where there are no CNN cameras.
Brief charm campaign. Let things calm down. Then apply Sharia law...hard. All those westernized girls are already marked as sex laves. The Taliban pays off its fighters with sex.
They’ll do exactly what the Iranians did.
‘Authors Clive James and Jung Chang posit that the campaign was, from the start, a ruse intended to expose rightists and counter-revolutionaries, and that Mao Zedong persecuted those whose views were different from those of the Party. The first part of the phrase from which the campaign takes its name is often remembered as “let a hundred flowers bloom.” This is used to refer to an orchestrated campaign to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regime, and then subsequently imprison them, according to Chang and James.
‘In Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Chang asserts that “Mao was setting a trap, and...was inviting people to speak out so that he could use what they said as an excuse to victimise them.”[11] Prominent critic Harry Wu, who as a teenager was a victim, later wrote that he “could only assume that Mao never meant what he said, that he was setting a trap for millions.”[12]’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign#Debated_intention_of_the_campaign
Sounds like the real war, for the last 20 years, was making the Taliban seem palatable enough to join to league of nation-states.
I mean, who cares if they actually commit atrocities, so do we all. But the appearance of niceness? That requires a fair amount of training and polish. I notice that their first act in reaching Kabul was to disarm the population. They didn’t do that in 1996. The PC Taliban have arrived, and sure, they will need to pay off their fighters in a little bit of gore and loot and rape, but in the long run look for economic development to ensue.
The funny part of this whole operation was how it inspired people worldwide to abandon America as a friend. Finally! We don’t need friends who keep asking us to bail them out. Our true national character is and has always been introverted. It would be great to be off on our own for a little bit to recharge our energy.
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