Posted on 10/04/2024 8:28:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Interviews from Riz Khan Show
This week’s Riz Khan Show starts with Afghanistan, which recently marked three years under Taliban rule after the US and its Western allies pulled troops out of the country as the Afghan government’s army crumbled. It was a chaotic departure which sparked desperate scenes at Kabul airport as thousands of Afghans fled what they feared would be persecution by the Taliban. Millions more joined the exodus abroad, while a further 3 million people remain displaced internally. Most of these are women. Well, despite initial promises of fair treatment by the Taliban rulers, the erosion of women’s freedoms has progressed from curbing education to encompass almost all aspects of their everyday lives.
The latest decree requires women to be completely covered and accompanied by a male family member when outside the home, and their voices must not be heard. No reading allowed, no reciting poetry, and definitely no singing. Well, critical voices in the international community have accused the Taliban’s policies as amounting to gender apartheid. But the Taliban have rebuffed such attacks, defending the new rules as necessary to promote virtue and deter vice, and maintaining that the new laws are based on Islamic teaching.
All of which leaves us with some essential questions. What is the best future women can expect within Afghanistan? Were the Western powers naive to believe women’s rights would be protected by the Taliban? Were they resigned to sacrifice those freedoms when they withdrew their forces? Is the international community powerless to influence the Taliban’s stance on women? What are Islamic leaders around the world saying about the issue? Is it arrogance to even try to interfere with the Taliban system of government? And what is the likelihood of Afghan men and women uniting to oppose the restrictions? Riz Khan is joined by two women who know this subject inside out.
British rock band Oasis reunion
The second part of the episode covers the reunion of the British rock band Oasis for a new tour, 15 years after brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher’s acrimonious split. The announcement has caused a sensation in the UK. It’s been the most talked about story for a week, with more than a million people scrambling for tickets to next year’s gigs, and tickets are changing hands for as much as $13,000 on the resale market.
The announcement also reignited memories of one of the most explosive musical feuds in the industry’s history, when the so-called Battle of Britpop divided the country between fans of Oasis and Blur in a race for superiority in the music charts. In the 30 years since, there have been plenty of musical feuds and fallouts, such as the tensions between hip hop giants Drake and Kendrick Lamar or Kanye West and Taylor Swift. But at that time, Blur versus Oasis became the biggest rock rivalry since The Beatles versus the Rolling Stones. And it’s never really disappeared. A new stage play about the feud, called The Battle, is heading to London’s West End next year. So, who won the battle of the Britpop bands?
Riz Khan revisits the debate with a pair of music experts to look back at the anger and abuse that divided the country by geography, class and culture.
Show guests:
Shukria Barakzai – Former Afghan MP & Ambassador to Norway
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck – Chair of UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women & Girls
John Robb – Music journalist
Adrian Goldberg – Music journalist
I have no sympathy.
The people of Afghanistan were given everything they needed to never have to deal with the Taliban ever again.
Let their women die. Let the nation implode. I do, not care.
Afghans knew everything would return to what it was prior under the Taliban....you’re not going to change their culture or mindset as long as Islam rules there.
I agree. Not our monkeys 🙉 🙈 🙊, not our circus 🤡🎪.
Exactly.
Yep....and I didn’t have a lot of hope ‘the people’ would change their mindsets/culture norms.
You have a country whose men liked it better the way it was.
Women in the phony religion are only human from the waste down. Said from an Islamic scholar now deceased.
Really? How about the babies? Do you want them all dead too?
They can have it that way, for all I care.
I do not understand what FR has become at times....we used to be good people and now we have freepers who don’t care if half the people of a country are killed.
Yep. They are the children of monsters. They’ll grow up to be monsters. Better they die before the age of accountability.
That quote just proves how ignorant ISlime really is and what a cancer it is on our species.
In our own country, an election-rigging Commie piece of cr@p like "Dirty Jena" Griswold gets to send a Gold Star mom like Tina Peters to prison for nine years for daring to question a rigged "election".
Our local problems are bigger than problems in Asia.
Well said and that’s absolutely right.
How the Taliban Are Re-Silencing Women in Afghanistan
Fixed it.
Western powers simply don't care about the little people.
If they did, they'd have dealt with this issue decades ago.
That’s exactly right.
Something about Oasis...
Not quite.
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