Posted on 09/04/2021 2:22:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A spokesperson for the Taliban has cautioned the United States regarding potential future interferences with their culture and treatment of women in Afghanistan.
According to Fox News, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen has advised the U.S. not to attempt to change or manage any cultural practices that the Taliban implements under an impending regime.
Shaheen told Fox News that women should not be educated without a hijab. After stating that women and girls should be required to wear hijabs in the classroom, the spokesperson aimed to appease any Western worries regarding human rights before making the Taliban’s wishes for autonomy on the world stage clear.
“There will be no issue about women’s rights. No problem about their education, their work,” Shaheen stated. “But we should not be after changing each other’s culture as we are not intending to change your culture, you should not be changing our culture.”
The spokesperson recalled the United States’ 20-year occupation in Afghanistan and made clear that a new era in the country has begun. “We have closed one chapter. For us it was occupation,” he began. “We ended that, we were staging resistance. But now that is closed. it is the past. We have to focus on the future that is better for them and for us.”
Shaheen also gave remarks regarding future diplomacy with the United States as he suggested, “we should be focusing how we can work together in a positive and constructive way which is in the best interest of both sides.”
Shaheen’s comments come off of the heels of a Reuters report that outlined a Taliban plan to implement a new government in Afghanistan. Co-founder of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Barada, will be the leader of the government once installed and the son of fellow co-founder, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, as...
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Western civilization went through a Reformation and an Enlightenment and as a result ended slavery and torture, established the principles of individual liberty, freedom of individual belief and religious tolerance. Islam has remained rooted in 6th century tribalism and tolerates if not condones barbarism. Afghanistan will revert back to its tribal state and be a cultural dung heap
Have you taken a look at our culture lately? I’m not so sure Sharia law wouldn’t be an improvement.
It is the Judeo-Christian ethic... thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not murder,... that brought about Western civilization. The simple fact that you could leave your house in the morning and come home that evening with nothing stolen. Without that, civilization is impossible.
Societies that can’t trust their neighbors never go well.
“They” should not be trying to change OUR culture, either.”
They will assimilate into the DemoRat culture.
THE PARTY is “The Borg”.
Yeah, that ‘’culture’’.
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