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Afghanistan: Radio station shuts down after Muslims threaten it for featuring three female broadcasters

Jul 17, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Feminists in the West have said nothing about this, or about anything related to Sharia-mandated discrimination against women.

“Afghan radio station shuts down after threats by suspected Taliban,” Reuters, July 15, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

KABUL (Reuters) – A private radio station in Afghanistan has shut down after numerous threats from a suspected Taliban commander who objected to women working as presenters, officials at the radio station said on Monday.

The incident comes as the Taliban are discussing a peace deal with the United States that could see them re-joining mainstream society, and that has brought new scrutiny of their attitudes to issues like women’s rights and the media.

The private radio station, Samaa, has been broadcasting political, religious, social and entertainment programs in the central province of Ghazni since 2013.

Its 13 employees, including three women presenters, broadcast in Afghanistan’s two main languages – Dari and Pashto.

The radio station’s director, Ramez Azimi, said Taliban commanders in the area had sent written warnings and telephoned in, to tell the radio station to stop employing women.

“The Taliban also came to my house and issued a threat,” Azimi said.

He said the threats had forced him to suspend broadcasts.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied that a Taliban commander had issued the threats.

“We are trying to find details,” said Mujahid.

The Taliban say many people falsely identify themselves as Taliban, often in the course of private disputes.

Several districts of Ghazni are under Taliban control.

The militants hold sway over about half of Afghanistan and they have been intensifying their attacks despite efforts toward a peace agreement to end the 18-year war.

The Taliban ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001.

Under their hardline interpretation of Islamic law, women were banned women from working or going to school.

But the Taliban have recently been projecting themselves as a more moderate force.

In a recent statement they said Islam gave women rights in areas including business and ownership, inheritance, education, work, choosing a husband, security and well-being.

But they denounced “so-called women’s rights activists” who encouraged women to defy Afghan customs.

The Taliban have staged numerous deadly attacks against the media and Afghanistan is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists….

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  1. gfys says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 8:40 am

    and the misguided left are stringing there own noose

  2. mortimer says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 10:02 am

    And now the FEMINIST response to misogyny in Afghastlistan: … (crickets)

    • ninetyninepct says

      Jul 18, 2019 at 12:45 pm

      Silence from Trudeau the self proclaimed feminist. It would be seen as a negative Islamophobic attitude by his Muslim terrorist friends and the Sharia Members of his Government.

  3. CRUSADER says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 12:00 pm

    Wish that were possible in the USA to shut down the three banshee band
    of AOC, Tlaib, and Omar. . .

  4. b.a. freeman says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    the fact that the u.s. is actually talking with the taliban should tell us all that we need to know. our rulers are trying to protect their elevated positions of power by trying to extract us from an interminable war. they don’t know *why* the war is unending, because they are uneducated, but they are tired of trying to justify it, regardless of its cause; what they fear is loss of their power, not deaths on the battlefield.

    unfortunately, their lack of understanding will be a cause of much larger numbers of deaths in the future. every leader of the republic should try to minimize military action, both because innocents are *guaranteed* to be killed, but also because our troops are our fellow citizens, and they, too, deserve protection (by minimizing the fighting to which we subject them). this is why *every* military action should be as swift as possible and massive in scope, so as to ensure victory and minimize the body count. we are in a war that has been going on for 1400 years. the only way to win it is to exterminate the pirate cult of islam. if we must use our military in this war, then we must occupy *EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY* of the ummah. we must outlaw islam, widely publish the “scriptures” of this vile cult in every native language, alongside a detailed critique and exposure of its gang-banger nature, and vigorously enforce laws against islam. we must allow freedom of speech, as well as freedom of religion (except for islam, of course). those freedoms would be introduced gradually, be restricted in response to islamic bulls**t, and only be complete after an initial occupation phase of 25 or 30 years. we would then have to be prepared to stay around to enforce stability and sanity for 250 to 300 years. if we do not occupy *EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY* of the ummah for centuries, those that remain islamic will remain a jihadi hotbed that will be an unending source of guerilla warfare and jihadi attacks on innocents. if we are not willing to go this far, then any military involvement in ummah-controlled areas other than massive punishment raids would be a waste of the lives of our fellow citizens.

    there *is* a different strategy that has a slight chance of success. that strategy is to *isolate* the ummah in its own s**thole nations. we can trade with them, visit them, and even allow visits to civilized nations from the ummah, but muslims by and large *M*U*S*T* be excluded from civilized society. we must also stop trading with any s**thole nation that has oil or gas, because they only use the money they get to spread jihad to us; this means that turkey, saudi barbaria, iran, and iraq would have to to quarantined (blockaded, if U will), with no trade of *any* kind allowed with *anybody*. after the current governments collapsed, we would have to go into them and re-divide their territories along ethnic and cult lines (kurdish, alawite, shia, sunni, etc.), as should have been done a century ago after the government of the ummah initially collapsed. unfortunately, there are leftist and non-muslim dictatorships who wish to destroy the republics they so envy, and they are more than willing to help the treasonous left of free nations destabilize their own societies by importing the hornets of the ummah and arming the mother nests of hornets in the middle east and east asia. this latter problem is why the potential for success of this plan is so slight.

    whatever happens for civilization to survive must happen soon, or the world will devolve into unending war and barbarism once again. at that point, surviving free people (or rather, dominated people with the attitudes of free people) will have to wait centuries for the dictatorships of the left or the ummah to decay enough to be able to break out into freedom again. with centuries of serfdom ahead, it is not likely that the ideas of freedom will survive; things do not look good at this point, and the lights of freedom are quickly being extinguished.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 2:28 pm

      The days when Robert Spencer consulted the US Government are over.

      That program needs to resume again.

  5. Angemon says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 4:48 pm

    I guess their voice was not veiled enough… 😎😎😎

  6. Mr. Cohen says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 9:21 pm

    from Miss Brigitte Gabriel:

    Wife-beating in Islamic nations is more prevalent than one can imagine.

    In Pakistan, is has been reported by the Institute of Medical Sciences
    that 90% of the female population has been beaten for such wrongdoings
    as giving birth to a daughter or cooking an unsatisfactory meal.

    After the African country of Chad attempted to outlaw wife-beating,
    Islamic clerics in that nation deemed the bill “un-Islamic”.

    SOURCE: They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat
    Radical Islam and How We Can Do It
    (Chapter 9, page 173)
    by Brigitte Gabriel, year 2008, year 2010, St. Martin’s Press,
    288 pages, ISBN 0312571283 ** ISBN 9780312571283.

    BIOGRAPHY NOTE: Brigitte Gabriel, the author of
    They Must Be Stopped, is a Christian Arab,
    born in Lebanon. Arabic is her native language.

  7. Mr. Cohen says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 9:26 pm

    ***** ISLAM AND HONOR KILLINGS *****

    “The contempt Islam holds toward women is best illustrated
    through it time-honored practice of honor killings.

    Any woman’s or girl’s perceived transgression against
    the teachings of Islam or against a man’s wishes,
    or behavior that insults a man, permits a male member
    of a family to murder the female to avenge and
    restore honor to the family in the eyes of society.”

    “Honor killings are executed by slitting the victim’s throat,
    hatcheting them, stabbing, burning them to death, bullets
    to the head or chest, or by any other means imaginable.”

    “In addition, it is also customary to cut off the victim’s
    left hand or index finger to prove to the tribal elders
    that the deed has been accomplished and
    the family honor can now be restored.’

    “Even moderate Jordan withdrew a referendum to
    tighten laws on honor killing after devout Muslims said
    that the law would eradicate Islamic values and traditions.

    Article 341 of Jordanian Law stipulates that
    murder is a legal act of defense when:”

    “the act of killing another or harming another was
    committed as an act of defense against his life,
    or his honor, or somebody else’s life or honor.”

    “Honor killings are performed throughout the Muslim world.

    In 1997, an attorney general in the Palestinian Authority
    told an audience of women that, in his opinion,
    the honor killings of women in Gaza and the
    West Bank were close to 70% of all female deaths.”

    “The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan,
    citing government figures, said in a 2006 report that
    about 1,000 women die annually in honor killings.”

    SOURCE: They Must Be Stopped:
    Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It

    (chapter 9, page 175) by Brigitte Gabriel, year 2008, year 2010,
    St. Martin’s Press, 288 pages, ISBN 0312571283 * ISBN 9780312571283.

  8. jca reid. says

    Jul 18, 2019 at 8:32 am

    & Feminist women openly endorse Islam as being progressive towards them!

  9. dlbrand says

    Jul 18, 2019 at 6:33 pm

    “Operation Enduring Freedom” – bang-up success!

  10. Marigold says

    Jul 19, 2019 at 4:13 am

    No and don’t hold your breath because the Marxist feminists who have a big say in the Western media are not the least bit interested in Muslim women who want to work in radio because the hypocrites are too busy putting all men down by accusing every man they can think of with sexual harrassment or waffling on ad nauseum about domestic violence.

  11. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jul 19, 2019 at 6:54 am

    “Feminists” like all victimologists, are professional criminal hypocrites.

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