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Afghanistan: Taliban shoots woman and gouges out her eyes for getting a job

Nov 13, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams 23 Comments

Where are the feminists and human rights defenders all over the West who boast about protecting the equality of rights of women? They are absent in this obscene case, just as they are absent when it comes to defending religious freedom in the face of the Muslim persecution of Christians and other religious minorities.

The status of women in Islam is one of inferiority. This is written in the Quran and in the Hadiths (“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other” — Qur’an 4:34). Although all Muslims do not practice Islam this way, this is the justification to which those who do have recourse.

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.

“The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home…because of the hadith related by Bayhaqi that the Prophet…said, ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to allow someone into her husband’s house if he is opposed, or to go out of it if he is averse” (Reliance of the Traveller m10.4).

Khatera knows this all too well, but celebrated her opportunity to work as a Muslim woman in Afghanistan:

“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.”

“Afghan woman Khatera shot, blinded, for getting a job,” Reuters, November 10, 2020:

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.

The rights activists believe a mix of Afghanistan’s conservative social norms and an emboldened Taliban gaining influence while the United States withdraws its troops from the country is driving the escalation.

The Taliban are currently negotiating in Doha, Qatar, with the Afghan government to broker a peace deal in which many expect them to formally return to power, but progress is slow and there has been an uptick in fighting and attacks on officials and prominent women around the country.

In recent months, the Taliban have said they will respect women’s rights under Sharia law but many educated women say they have doubts. The insurgent group has opposed a reform to add mother’s names to identity cards, one of the first concrete stances they have revealed on women’s rights as they engage in the peace process….

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  1. European pagan says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    OMG… it’s horrible… 😥 monsters…
    It’s not forbidden in Islam (or any other religion) for women to work and I know a lot of muslim women who work.
    I think in a sh*thole country like Afghanistan this monsters will not get punishment! Noone has the right to do this to an other person

    Reply
    • Brando says

      Nov 13, 2020 at 2:50 pm

      There is hope,with 3D PRINTING there has been Great Progress in using a Person’s Own Cells and creating ORGANS for TRANSPLANT, that would Not Be Rejected by the person’s body,one can create:

      1.A HEART

      2.A NOSE

      3.EARS

      4.EYES,etc.

      ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE will help us Perfect the Process.

      ELECTRONIC GLASSES

      I don’t know for what percentage but with electronic glasses ( cost: $10,000-$15,000):

      a BLIND person can now READ a BOOK and RECOGNIZE FACES and THINGS, essentially see again.

      WORLDWIDE PLAGUE OF MYOPIA

      It is when you CAN NOT see FAR AWAY (only a few feet),and it is spreading fast. It is calculated that in 30 YEARS ( 1 GENERATION):

      50% of the world population will have myopia,and 10% of the world population will have EXTREME MYOPIA ( be virtually BLIND).

      Again,I believe Artificial Intelligence will find a cure.

      Reply
      • Only a man says

        Nov 14, 2020 at 12:15 am

        And I am sure that was GOD’s Job. Why are people so immersed in Man Created Miracles? Man can not create or Destroy anything that was already Created. So all of this is nothing but illusion by man. Man will not see until Man can understand the Lords Plan. Only Jesus can make people see again, but Man can only make it seem they can see again. Satan is deceiving you all into false Miracles and wonders.

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        • Brando says

          Nov 14, 2020 at 8:08 am

          I don’t deny the Possibilty of the PARANORMAL/ SUPERNATURAL, as an Agnostic. One astonishing example is:

          THE CASE OF FATIMA IN PORTUGAL

          70,000 people looked DIRECTLY at the SUN for 15 MIN.

          They should have ALL become BLIND.

          Because if you look at the sun for 1 MIN, its ULTRAVIOLET RAYS, will make you Blind

          or MINIMUM Partly-Blind, because the UV rays DESTROY the eye’s RETINA.

          How are ATHEISTS going to explain that away?

    • Keith O says

      Nov 13, 2020 at 3:20 pm

      And from an Aussie pagan, what makes this far worse is their total lack of respect for females. If it was a man they did this act of barbarity against, that would be bad enough, but to attack a woman? sickening.

      Reply
    • toomanyhobbies says

      Nov 14, 2020 at 8:23 pm

      sure they care about women, and I still have that bridge for sale in NYC

      Reply
  2. Brando says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    Very depressing,and the TALIBAN control 55% of Afghanistan.

    90% of HEROIN sold in the world comes from AGHANISTAN,sold by the Taliban and warlords of the country,to the 9 MILLION heroin addicts worldwide.

    1. ANNE MARIE WATERS is British feminist and ex-leftist ( now centrist ),

    atheist,lesbian, who defends the rights of non-Muslim and Muslim women.

    2. CAROLINE FOREST is French,leftists,but has attacked Muslim’s attacks against human rights,and has written a book in FAVOR of FREEDOM of SPEECH.

    It is GENERATION OFFENSEE ( literally:offended/insulted generation)(2019) which critiques POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

    and says today’s NEW generation,in general,

    does NOT care about Defending Freedom of Speech.

    Reply
    • Brando says

      Nov 13, 2020 at 1:09 pm

      Also, ANNE MARIE WATERS is a

      Friend and Ally of TOMMY ROBINSON( who has denounced the Muslim Grooming Gangs in the UK, with TENS of THOUSANDS of Victims )

      And has written:” Beyond Terror: Islam’s Slow Erosion of Western Democracy” (2018)

      Reply
  3. observer says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    Shocking beyond words…
    Barbaric.
    Evil.

    And the so-called “good Muslims” WILL. REMAIN. SILENT.

    Reply
  4. Christopher Watson says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 1:17 pm

    If aliens ever land on our planet I hope they don’t land in a moslem country. They will surely leave rapidly calling us a backward planet full of savages.

    Reply
  5. mortimer says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 2:38 pm

    International police forces should use all possible resources to find and destroy the Taliban organization that commited this unspeakable crime. Afghastlistan is being destroyed by Islamic fanaticism.

    Khatera is in our prayers.

    Reply
  6. Keith O says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 3:23 pm

    These brave soldiers of Allah must be patting themselves on the back, congratulating each other on what a fine job they did.
    LOSERS!

    Reply
  7. wpm says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 4:01 pm

    The most depressing part of the article was “the assailants acted on a tip-off from her father who vehemently opposed her working outside the home”. I guess he is very proud of what he brought about for his daughter in this violent attack he aided in, what inhuman people are these followers of the moon god allah to have this done to your own child!

    Reply
  8. PRCS says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 4:50 pm

    Would she leave Islam, now, if she could?

    Reply
  9. Yogi says

    Nov 13, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Millions of Afghans military age are coming to a specially to Germany Snd Europe illegally , they are most barbaric people reapists, and Angela Merkel welcome this savages with open arms , it’s beyond insanity what is happening, rape , rape all over Europe, ( Maria Lindneberg ) and lots of this young girls reaped and murdered by Afghans in Germany, and nobody is doing nothing to stop or change this horror..

    Reply
  10. Andrew says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 12:41 am

    There must be another word in English for barbarians because that word just does not describe these people enough.

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Nov 14, 2020 at 1:11 pm

      Andrew,

      How about sadist psychopath?

      Reply
  11. Antiislamicman says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 2:58 am

    Thus is straight out of Muhammad’s play book. Islam is pure evil just like the false prophet Muhammad

    Reply
  12. Check Burry says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 6:45 am

    How can it be that some are negotiating a Peace deal with these “things”, do they actually believe they will stick to the deal after its signed.

    Reply
  13. Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 6:49 am

    Worse to come – she’ll be deafened by the silence, too.

    Reply
  14. Giacomo Latta says

    Nov 14, 2020 at 10:15 am

    When a muslim (I can’t say ‘human being,) is absolutely full of hate there are no depths to which he cannot sink. Add to that the embarrassment of seeing a woman, a supposed inferior, prove her mettle and intelligence to be superior of local males and the result is the inevitable. This is Islam.

    Reply
  15. OLD GUY says

    Nov 15, 2020 at 12:38 pm

    OMG how easy that is to say. Just remember your OMG leftest Biden will bring this kind of violence to a neighborhood near YOU. He and Nancy plan on opening the borders to the muslim/islamic migration invasion of your country. OH JOY.

    And OMG forget about WOMENS RIGHTS.

    Reply
  16. Lorensacho says

    Nov 18, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    And Trump’s response was to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

    Reply

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