ICC fails Afghan women. Filmmakers step in

Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/12/24 | Prof. Phyllis Chesler

[Eleutheria5]

I’ve just watched the film Bread and Roses, co-produced by actress Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousefzai, and directed by Sahra Mani.

If only American women were half as brave as the on-camera real-life women activists in Kabul! We see them willing to risk being beaten, arrested, tortured, and even murdered by the Taliban because they’ve dared to demonstrate for “Work, Bread, and Education.”

Wearing hijab, but naked-faced, identifiable, these heroes march, chant, hold placards aloft, scrawl their demands on walls and even on the snow, meet secretly — and continue to do so even as the Taliban death-threatens, beats, and arrests activist after activist, even after they murder many. The women demand the return of their arrested sisters — and in one instance, they actually prevail.

Strong Women Against the Taliban

Bread and Roses depicts Afghan women who tried to get to the airport on the days before the Taliban stormed into Kabul; they found that all the airport “gates” were closed to them. Thereafter, the women left behind were, essentially, placed under house arrest, forbidden to work, (even if they were doctors and dentists), forbidden to attend school, go out without a male escort and without wearing the Afghan burqa, the garment I view as a sensory deprivation isolation chamber.

Both schools and beauty shops were shuttered. Music was forbidden. Impoverished families began selling their very young daughters to much older, already married men. Women were forbidden to take taxis alone.

Courtesy of body camcorders and hidden cameras, we see these women activists being beaten by the Taliban with whips and sticks. These are the women who say, on camera: “Not everyone is brave enough to risk their lives against terrorism.” We see an enraged Talib break a door down...

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[Eleutheria5]

ICC = Idiots Collaborating with Criminals.

[Does so]

Same as in Iran.

(”Once they’ve seen the city”)

[Gene Eric]

>> co-produced by actress Jennifer Lawrence ...

putting her money where her mouth is ?

[Eleutheria5]

A real cause, too. That’s a change for Hollywood. Not pursuing global warming or free Palestine?

[Nifster]

The writer doesn’t know history American women helped win the American revolution. The gunpowder they made kept it going

[redfreedom]

With lefty Geo Clooney’s wife a part of the ICC and exposing herself as a Jew hater, the ICC has proven itself to be a joke. It’s a part of the world sickness that includes the UN.