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Afghanistan: At least 5 dead in jihad suicide attack on American aid group because they promoted gender equality

May 9, 2019 9:30 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“The Taliban have killed at least five people in a suicide attack” on the offices of a US aid group, Counterpart International” in the heart of Kabul.  The reasons cited for the attack is that “one of its programmes was promoting open inter-mixing between men and women'” and other “harmful Western activities”.  In Islamic doctrine, gender equality is non-existent.

In full sharia style, “when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, before the US-led campaign to topple them in 2001, they barred women from education and most work, and forced them to wear the burqa.”

The burqa should be banned in every Western country for both security reasons and the fact that under Western constitutions, women and men are equals.

“Taliban suicide attack targets Kabul offices of US aid group”, by Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian, May 8, 2019:

The Taliban have killed at least five people in a suicide attack on the offices of a US aid group in the heart of the Afghan capital, claiming it targeted Counterpart International because it promoted women “mixing” with men.

Coming as US negotiators try to reach a peace deal with the Taliban, the attack in Kabul is likely to fuel the concerns of critics who say the militant group cannot be trusted to protect women’s rights and other freedoms, whatever they may pledge at the negotiating table.

It began with a suicide blast at the entrance to Counterpart International’s Afghanistan headquarters in the centre of Kabul, near the offices of the attorney general.

Five gunmen then raced inside the compound and battled special forces soldiers for more than six hours. About 200 people were evacuated from two buildings as the fighting raged.

Four of the dead were civilians and one was a policeman; 24 others were injured. Counterpart, which is based in the US and has operated in Afghanistan since 2005, said it was incredibly saddened by the attack and was “working as quickly as possible to account for our staff. Their safety and security is our primary concern.”

It was not immediately clear if any of the dead were employees of the organisation, which works with civil society in Afghanistan, including supporting women’s rights and young Afghans.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the group had been targeted because it carried out “harmful western activities” in Afghanistan, and one of its programmes was “promoting open inter-mixing between men and women”.

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, before the US-led campaign to topple them in 2001, they barred women from education and most work, and forced them to wear the burqa…..

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  1. mortimer says

    May 9, 2019 at 10:30 am

    Agree. The burqa is a medieval symbol of misogyny and patriarchy which has no place in an egalitarian society.

  2. No Muzzies Here says

    May 9, 2019 at 10:32 am

    I don’t think there’s much hope for that religion to ever reform and join the civilized, rational world. (The understatement of the year.)

  3. Benedict says

    May 9, 2019 at 10:32 am

    Maybe the Taliban have got the wrong impression that equality between men and women in the West equals the sameness of men and women? And indeed this bizarre notion is forcefully promulgated by the Left, and we see its ultimate expression in the legalization and increase of same-sex marriages.
    If the Talibans were a little more shrewd they would support the idea about the sameness of men and women living in the West, because it’s an omen of the demise of western culture and promotes an easy takeover by Muslims.

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2019 at 11:38 pm

      Benedict has said before that women in the West should have to wear Burqas in order to atone for the existence of nude beaches. *Ugh*.

      And his claim that not wanting to see women forced into Burqas and stoned to death will lead to the conquest of the West by Muslims is just grotesque. Some of us actually believe in standing up for Western values.

      Seems that Benedict would be pretty happy under Islam–he already shares their hatred of women.

  4. mortimer says

    May 9, 2019 at 10:49 am

    About 99% of Afghans still want Sharia law … idiots. Sharia always creates dysfunctional, corrupt, misogynistic, inegalitarian, RAGE-FILLED societies. The people of Afghastlistan thus match the definition of insanity:

    “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”

    Afghans have not figured out that Sharia enslavement will always produce failure, stupidity, backwardness and pain.

    They have not learned that if you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten …

    Afghastlistan is an impoverished, corrupt mess and the people are among the most DEPRESSED of all people on earth.

    MESSAGE TO AFGHANS: “DUMP SHARIA LAW AND COME INTO THE 21st CENTURY.”

    • Patriot2G says

      May 9, 2019 at 11:28 am

      The definition of a sh**hole country.

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2019 at 11:38 pm

      Yes–almost all Afghans support this Islamic savagery.

    • David Grisez says

      May 10, 2019 at 3:09 am

      There is one big obstacle to dumping Sharia Law. The only way to dump Sharia Law is to dump Islam. This is because Sharia Law is the whole legal system of Islam and is an integral and inseparable part of Islam.

  5. elee says

    May 9, 2019 at 11:00 am

    Hey libbers………aaaaahhhh never mind.

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2019 at 11:39 pm

      I believe in equal rights for women and I condemn this, elee.

    • Kay says

      May 10, 2019 at 9:22 am

      Makes me wonder if most Americans who support human rights have even heard of the murder of these Americans. Or most of the other atrocities perpetrated daily.

      • gravenimage says

        May 11, 2019 at 2:20 am

        I hadn’t heard about this until I read about it here at Jihad Watch myself–and I’m a news junkie.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:28 pm

    The above main top article explains to the reader about back then the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan “ they barred women from education and most work, and forced them to wear the burqa.”

    Furthermore the harsh ,brutal Taliban regime was even more oppressive as in murderous ly oppressive against he women who exist under the misogynistic tyranny of the Taliban.

    Related to this, is that on the morning of April 17, 2019 on FOX NEWS television the subject was covered about the idea of having “peace talks “with the Taliban. Viewing the history of the Taliban when they were in power in Afghanistan and the brutal ruthless misogyny they had engaged in was both vicious and malicious to the extreme.

    Therefore the question ,naturally, was brought up ,now that peace talks” might soon begin, the Taliban it was asked it they return to power in Afghanistan “ would they respect female rights ?”
    To that question the Taliban replied “that when back in power they would respect woman‘s rights but only to the limits of the cultural of will they permit those rights of women.”

    The point is the the “cultural of Afghanistan” is really the religion of Afghanistan, which is Islam.
    Therefore the reality is that female rights, for both girls and woman, will not exist in a future Taliban controlled Islamic state of Afghanistan . For Islam is a religion of harsh and malice- filled misogyny.
    As explained in the book, by Brigitte Gabriel, of the title THEY MUST BE STOPPED. Her book informs the readers on page 172. “Woman in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”

    • joanofark06 says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:09 am

      Here’s the “Pakistani Taliban”:

      “Taliban Chief Vows ‘Amazing’ Attack on Washington ‘Soon'”

      https://www.foxnews.com/story/taliban-chief-vows-amazing-attack-on-washington-soon

      And within that article, it says this:

      “The Pakistani Taliban has links with Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban militants who have launched attacks against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan from a base in the border region between the two countries.”

      So, we have the Taliban killing many people, and blowing things up, doing what muzlims do.

      Our government is now on it’s 6th round of talks with the Taliban, believe it or not!

      And here was Trump….back in August of 2017:

      Trump open to eventual political deal with Taliban

      http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Trump_open_to_eventual_political_deal_with_Taliban_999.html

      It’s amazing….years and years, of talk after talk after talk, and what do you get? ISLAM, the religion that keeps on giving! Looks like we’re going to be in Afghanistan, a VERY long time, or at least until we get the Taliban to play nicely, and stop killing people, and blowing things up!

      “At least 95 people killed and 158 wounded after a Taliban suicide attacker drives ambulance through checkpoint and sets off bomb near embassies in the Afghan capital”

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5319181/Thick-smoke-seen-rising-huge-explosion-rocks-Kabul.html

      So here’s the latest, of the “talks”:

      New round of US-Taliban talks starts in Doha

      http://www.spacewar.com/reports/New_round_of_US-Taliban_talks_starts_in_Doha_999.html

      And in that article you’ll see the price tag to the taxpayers, and how many of our troops have been killed.

      On Sunday, the Afghan-born envoy said Washington was “a bit impatient” to end the war, given its $45 billion annual cost to the US taxpayer and the continued toll on US forces, some 2,400 of whom have been killed since the US-led invasion in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

      So in my opinion….our government is trying make deals with the devil (muzlims). Why doesn’t our leadership just pack up our soldiers, and get them home, and let Afghanistan, be Afghanistan!?

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:31 pm

    The idea of having actual, real, genuine productive “peace talks” with those violent and misogynistic Taliban characters is an absurd and fool idea of folly.

    One thing is for sure, even if even attempting to engage on “peace talks” with Taliban it would be best not to be naïve about them and take at face value anything that they might say or promise. To just “give trust away” to those Islamic characters who compose the Taliban would be foolishness and folly. For when trying to have genuine negotiations with the them ,it need to be kept in mind that there is an Islamic doctrine called TAQIYYA This is the Muslim dogma the lying and deception are good things to do, if and as long as the lies and deceit are done for the advancement of Islam.

    For the deceptive and disingenuous Taliban have proven many times over, by their own actions, that they are a ruthless, brutal vicious gang of thugs with no honor. So in any kind of “dialogue” the Taliban will most likely speak the truth only when it happened to suite them. The rest of the time they will be speaking half-truths and also be outright lying. Likewise, the Taliban will keep their word in anything that they may happen to promise only and long as in fits into their agenda and no longer. So before engaging of the foolishness of attempting to have genuine “talks for a peace alliance” with Taliban, the officials of the current government would do well to heed the wisdom of Sun Tzu found in THE ART OF WAR. For it instructs “We cannot enter into an alliance neighboring’s princes, until we are acquainted with their designs.” To put this in a more updated and current way, it may be said that “We cannot enter into a peace alliance with the Taliban until we know the actual intentions and real schemes.”

    Furthermore, if attempting to engage in “peace talks” with Taliban it would be very naïve to take at face value anything that the Taliban might promise. For example, the Taliban might say that they will respect the rights of women and girls, for they ,many times, employ the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya In those so called “negotiations” with officials of the West .Taaqyia ids the Islamic teaching that lying and deceit.

    So it may be nothing but foolishness and folly to even try to have worthwhile constructive peace discussions with lying brutal cruel men who make up the Taliban . For having a genuine practical peace compromise with Taliban might be impossible

    As the former US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he said “There has never been – there never can be – successful compromise between good and evil.”

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    As for the Taliban and their suicide/homicide bombing attacks in Afghanistan , which the Taliban call “martyrdom operations” make is all this more evil and absurd. For to changing the title of a murderous action by giving it a better sounding title will never change what it actually ,really is. Which is an mass murder carried out by a jihad minded Muslim because he is deceived and deluded by the false doctrines of Islam, as of a paradise and a wedding with many virgins for the jihadist /Muslim who dies for the cause of Islam.

    What the West needs is wisdom. As the Bible instructs “Wisdom is better than strength.” Ecclesiastes 9:16. [N.K.J.V.] Likewise, this same book of the Bible also teaches in 9:18 “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” Therefore, wisdom is in strong contrast to opinion. Also greatly opposed to wisdom is folly and deceit. As the Bible in Proverbs 14:8 informs the reader ‘The folly of fools is deceit.”

    The deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded the he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:50 pm

    A jihadist just after his Islamic suicide /homicide attack, as that Taliban/jihadist did in Afghanistan , right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31. That jihad minded Muslim of ISIS was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V] As for in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.

    In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears , they will heap up for themselves teachers ; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.” Second Timothy 3,4.

  10. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 9, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    Allah commands you as regards your children’s (inheritance); to the male, a portion equal to that of two female.
    – Holy Ko-Ran 4:11

    This makes it hard to criticize the men who did this Jihad mass murder operation of Infidels in Afghanistan.

  11. owensgate says

    May 9, 2019 at 4:49 pm

    These “Aid Groups” aren’t doing it right. You CANNOT change Satanic dogma to civilized behavior unless you preach THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST FIRST. Otherwise, you are just agitating a volatile, primitive mindset.

    • Kay says

      May 10, 2019 at 9:19 am

      It takes a powerful good to overcome a powerful evil.

      • gravenimage says

        May 11, 2019 at 2:49 am

        +1

  12. gravenimage says

    May 9, 2019 at 11:30 pm

    Afghanistan: At least 5 dead in jihad suicide attack on American aid group because they promoted gender equality
    ………………………

    No gender equality for us–we’re Muslims…

    And so the members of the “religion of peace” need to mass murder people again.

  13. Savvy Kafir says

    May 11, 2019 at 11:00 am

    Why the hell are American aid workers in Afghanistan, a land of hardcore Allah junkies who despise us and everything we stand for?

    It’s like sending humanitarian aid to Nazi Germany. Those people are not our friends! The entire country is not worth one infidel life.

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