Khatera, 33, an Afghan policewoman who was blinded in an attack in Ghazni province, speaks during an interview in Kabul. Mohammad Ismail/Reutershttps://nypost.com/2020/11/10/afghan-woman-left-blind-after-attack-for-taking-job-as-cop/
Posted on 11/10/2020 2:26:50 PM PST by xomething
KABUL (Reuters) - The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanistan’s central Ghazni province, shooting at her and stabbing her with a knife in the eyes.
Waking up in hospital, everything was dark.
“I asked the doctors, why I can’t see anything? They told me that my eyes are still bandaged because of the wounds. But at that moment, I knew my eyes had been taken from me,” she said.
She and local authorities blame the attack on Taliban militants - who deny involvement – and say the assailants acted on a tip-off from her father who vehemently opposed her working outside the home.
For Khatera, the attack caused not just the loss of her sight but the loss of a dream she had battled to achieve - to have an independent career. She joined the Ghazni police as an officer in its crime branch a few months ago.
“I wish I had served in police at least a year. If this had happened to me after that, it would have been less painful. It happened too soon ... I only got to work and live my dream for three months,” she told Reuters.
The attack on Khatera, who only uses one name, is indicative of a growing trend, human rights activists say, of an intense and often violent backlash against women taking jobs, especially in public roles. In Khatera’s case, being a police officer could have also angered the Taliban...
In recent months, the Taliban have said they will respect women’s rights under Sharia law but many educated women say they have doubts...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Khatera, 33, an Afghan policewoman who was blinded in an attack in Ghazni province, speaks during an interview in Kabul. Mohammad Ismail/Reuters Just about anything could have also angered the Taliban.
Democrats cheer because she donated to the Trump campaign.
I’m sure western femanazis will march for her /s
Posts like that are idiotic for the following reasons:
#1, The President’s campaign would NOT accept money from foreign sources. It is illegal and immoral.
#2, The Taliban were doing stuff like this long before the current President was elected.
#3, Even the most provincial mind SHOULD recognize that this is an internal Afghan issue.
#4, Islamics do this to their own people all the time.
#5, Nice broad brush there, fella!
AntiFa and AoC and now Project Lincoln are now hunting down Trump supporters and donators.
Do try to keep up.
At least she tried to improve herself by quitting blogging and trying to get a job.
She didn't die a blogger, and that should make her family happy.
Hunt them down and do what, exactly?
Are you scared of those misfit fags?
Why? What are they going to do?
Stamp they little feet and toss tofu wrappers at you?
Did you see what they did to Brandon Eich and others who supported Prop 8?
I’m not wilting to them - I’m pointing out that we’ve become a third word country with terror gangs that target you based on your ideology.
Afghanistan despite all our sacrifices and treasure the minute we leave will revert to the same dung heap it always was. There is no hope for these Islamic nations.
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