Posted on 11/18/2024 10:49:10 AM PST by george76
A bullet failed to silence her, now Malala Yousafzai is lending her voice to the women of Afghanistan.
In just a few years since the Taliban retook control of the country, women's rights have been eroded to the point where even singing is banned.
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The speed of change in Afghanistan, if not the brutality, has surprised Malala, who since that near-fatal shooting in 2012 has campaigned for equality.
"I never imagined that the rights of women would be compromised so easily," ..
"A lot of girls are finding themselves in a very hopeless, depressing situation where they do not see any way out," the 27-year-old Nobel Prize Winner says.
"The future looks very dark to them."
In 2021, the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, 20 years after a US-led invasion toppled their regime in the fallout of the 9/11 attacks in New York.
In the three-and-a-half years since Western forces left the country, "morality laws" have meant women in Afghanistan have lost dozens of rights.
A dress code means they must be fully covered and strict rules have banned them from travelling without a male chaperone or looking a man in the eye unless they're related by blood or marriage.
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"Women lost everything," ..
"The Taliban know that to take away women's rights you have to start with the foundation, and that is education."
The UN says since the takeover more than a million girls are not in school in Afghanistan - about 80% - and in 2022 about 100,000 female students were banned from their university courses.
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"Afghan women live in very dark times now,"
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Sahra tells Asian Network her mission was "to tell the story of a nation under the Taliban dictatorship".
"How slowly, all the rights have been taken away."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
How about you contact the “women” of the View? They babble on endlessly about women losing rights.
Oh, and if you really want their attention ID as a tranny.
Go on a sex strike, like American women do. Easy.
To hear the leftists here, they’d tell you it just got way, waaay worse than Afghanistan.
Well at least they aren’t going to live under Trump’s literally “Handmaidens Tale.”
It shows how battles in Afghanistan tend to be "all going well until one warlord goes to the other side, then it all collapses"
Oh and Afghanistan is not the "graveyard of empires" - the British empire didn't end after teh first and second afghan wars, while Afghanistan was conquered by and part of the Achaemenid, Macedonian, Mauryan, Graeco-Bactrian, Kushan, etc. empires
Mauryan
Kushan
Response from the Now Gang.....*crickets*
More poignant for me was the episode when the previous Afghanistan Regime’s Finance Minister (trained by US AID and the World Bank) fled the country with suitcases full of cash on US Helicopters before the Taliban moved back in.
Bush/Cheney did such a great job in Afghanistan and Iraq. Two countries that had nothing to do with 911. They’re Democrats now. Welcomed with open arms.
Here is a suggestion: Fly every female out of the country on one of the C130’s Joey left behind to America and then get medieval on their asses, I’m thinking Operation Castle Bravo about 20 times over.
This would have never happened under Trump because he would have used pressures to stop it.
Sad. 15 years back on a Delhi-Kabul flight I met a young woman who had started a school for girls in Kabul. She had 600 students. She had verses for woman’s rights in their so-called “holy book.”
Afghanistan is a dung heap like many other Muslim nations because they embrace fundamentalist Islam which forces society into 7th century tribalism. However, where are the women in pussy hats who lament that abortion until and during birth is a God given right and that under Trump they will be forced into a dystopian Handmaiden’s society. Do they not have any empathy for a real oppression of women that takes place daily in places like Afghanistan and Iran?
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