Gains for women’s rights in Afghanistan, you say? Over the past two decades? Do tell! Are Afghan women no longer forced to wear burqas? Are they attending schools without fear of jihad attacks designed to discourage women from getting an education? Are they able to institute police proceedings against men who beat them?
There have been no significant gains for women’s rights over the last two decades. This is just propaganda designed to perpetuate the presence of American troops in Afghanistan, which the socialist internationalist elites have evidently decided must remain, although the reason for that is unclear. Perhaps it’s just to sap America’s strength so that it cannot meet other challenges that are soon to come.
“Afghans Fear Losing Gains in Women’s Rights in Peace: Report,” by Massoud Ansar, TOLONews, January 15, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Afghanistan finds itself in a state between hope and fear–hope that the peace negotiations will finally put an end to the conflict, and fear that these negotiations will jeopardize the fragile gains made for women’s rights and gender equality over the past two decades, says a report by OXFAM International.
The report titled Women, Peace and Security that explores challenges, lessons learned and opportunities in Afghanistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Yemen, says violence continued to severely impact women in the first half of 2020, with 397 casualties.
In Afghanistan, while intra-Afghan peace talks started in September 2020, there are concerns that they will jeopardize fragile gains made for women’s rights over the past two decades.
Systematic challenges and weak cooperation persist, and civil servants have limited awareness and knowledge on the implementation of policies and practices on gender equality, the report says.
The report that is based on 19 interviews with women’s rights and civil society organizations in the country says Afghanistan has a very poor track record on including women in peace talks: they were present at only 15 out of 67 formal and informal talks tracked between 2005 and 2020.
This means women were excluded from nearly 80% of meetings, the report says.
“We have many hopes for peace, but so far, what we have heard about peace has been a propaganda rather than something practical,” said Muzlifa Kakar, a news presenter….
mortimer says
Peace talks will result in stricter Sharia law being imposed which will further erode the modest gains of women’s human rights.
The Taliban wants to return to the state of affairs during their horrible reign of terror in Afghastlistan.
Islam is inherently and systemically misogynistic.
Infidel says
Since we didn’t take advantage of our occupation to re-jig Afghanistan by crushing islam the way the Romanovs did in the 19th century to their northern neighbors in Turkistan, we have no business remaining there. In fact, we should have left in 2002. The Sharansky doctrine might work in non-muslim environs like Latin America, but it’s completely worthless in muslim countries, since islam is incompatible w/ democracy
I can see Biden cancelling our troop withdrawal from Afghanistan the moment Gen Millie or any of the other top ranking generals tell him to. Never mind that we need to reinforce ourselves against the Chicoms
GreekEmpress says
Totally agree, Infidel.
I can also see Biden sending them millions for “gender studies” like Pakistan received.
Infidel says
In fact, they could have used the Paki grants themselves, if it weren’t for the racist WALL that the Pakis are putting up along the Durand line
Keith O says
Infidel, Your last paragraph is spot on.
The biggest threat the world faces from a single nation is China and the Whiney The Poo who runs the country.
Mudslimes are a very big threat, however, they do not belong to a single nation. If they all joined forces then the world as we know it would be screwed.
Infidel says
Keith, not just that, the ummah is currently split largely on an Arab vs non-Arab basis (w/ some exceptions, like Qatar, Yemen, Somalia and Libya’s GNA government faction). On one side, you have the Arab League, practically led by the Saudis, who are interested in getting rid of their jihad reputation that they’ve built up over the century, and on the other side, the rest of the non-Arab OIC led by Turkey, that wants to resurrect the Ottoman empire and which has one over some major non-Arab countries like Pakistan, Malaysia, Azerbaijan
Also, w/ oil prices having crashed, Arab countries are no longer as flush w/ cash as before, and are looking at reforming: Saudi Arabia, for instance, is looking to develop an economy not based on oil. I also have a theory that since Arabs are heavily outnumbered by non-Arabs, they don’t want to spread islam among non-Arabs further, which would jeopardize their own ownership of islam. They already know what an Ottoman caliphate looked like
In the meantime, a lot of those countries are all but client states of Beijing – particularly Pakistan. I found it funny that Erdogan got a jab of the Sinovac ?- the Chinese vaccine that has failed clinical field tests in Brazil. ? And countries like the Emirates are adapting it as well. Maybe flood the muslim countries w/ the Sinovac, and that’ll take care of them on its own ?
But we’ll still have China to be concerned about, and w/ Biden in, the campaign to get companies to leave China will be over ?
Keith O says
Agreed!
somehistory says
Perhaps it’s in the color of their body bags. I seem to recall when the news women went there to “report” on the situation, all of the moslim women were wearing black from head to toe, and this photo shows a nice blue.
diane sawyer and ashley banfield could wear those colors, too, and report on how the taliban are now ‘different’ somehow because they have fooled people with their talk of ‘peace.’ But they are ‘worried’ that maybe the black body bags will be mandated again.
You can take a moslim out of a moslim country, but you can’t take the islam out of the moslim. The moslim has to want to rid himself of the foul creed that demands he worship a mass-murdering, raper of children, slave trading liar, sack of slug slime, son of satan the devil. Most of them prefer to stay and dominate all whom they can.
Infidel says
That’s why a part of me was never onboard w/ RAWA or other Afghan feminist groups that wanted liberation for Afghan women. For one thing, they were busy lying to themselves that this misogyny is not based in islam, which it is, and ergo, they were as dedicated to Afghanistan being an Islamic state, just like the men.
When Kandahar fell in December 2001, I thought that the troops could be brought home, and the Afghan parties other than the Taliban could be allowed to sort out the future of the country. Sitting w/ the parties to put together a constitution that included shariah law and the death penalty for apostasy certainly raised red flags. But other than that, there was that open-endedness that Osama hadn’t been captured. Once Osama was killed in 2011, we should have seized the opportunity and left.
I’m just afraid that Biden will raise troop levels not only in Afghanistan, but worse, start re-engaging w/ Pakistan!
Walter Sieruk says
The people who worry the the “peace talks” in Afghanistan with the Taliban might have the consequence of the harming female human rights, for both girls and women , after the Taliban regain power and control in the country. They have every rational right and reason to be worried
For the Taliban had even declared that they would recognize, accept follow and abide by all the agreements rules and law, of the heads of the current government and the officials of the USA have set down and put forth in the “peace talks” as long as the rules and laws of that peace agreement don’t conflict with the customs and traditions of the Islamic history of Afghanistan.
Therefore the problem found in the statement of agreement by the Taliban is that the customs and traditions of the Islamic history of Afghanistan involve much brutal, cruel oppressive and even murderous misogyny . So the disingenuous Taliban ,with their official statement in mind , will quickly go back to restoring the harsh and malicious misogyny once they have regained control and power in in Afghanistan.
In other words the Taliban will keep only the rules of that “peace agreement ” only as far as it suits their Islamic agenda because they feel that they have every “right” not to keep their promises if those “promises ” are in conflict with Islam, Islamic customs and tradition ofthe MUslim history of Afghanistan.
Thus the brutal ,cruel oppressive and murderous misogyny of the Taliban will be restored after the regain control and power in that land.
In addition to all this it’s very appropriate to reiterate that 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 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.”
An awful and terrible part of the real intentions and schemes of the Taliban is the full and total restoration of the awful heinous and vile misogyny in Afghanistan.
Kepha says
Such misplaced worries. I’m sure the Talebs and Hezb-e-Islami will be all ears and respectful when a Socialist Belgian judge steps off an airplane waving the appropriate writs.
BTW, Uncle Kepha is all for getting out of Afghanistan as long as the logistical chains have to go through our noble, trustworthy ally, Pakistan. He recalls how in the wake of 9/11, all seven Afghan feminists were trotted out to speak to US campuses about how evil the Talebs are; apparently in hopes that they’d awaken the chivalrous instincts in American young men.
Make this deal with Afghanistan: Any Afghan Christian who’s arrested gets given to us in return for a dozen Antifa…
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Oxfam report worries that peace talks will ‘jeopardize fragile gains made for women’s rights’
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Afghanistan has *stoning* back on the books–and this is not even the Taliban, but the almost equally Islamic government we are supporting with American blood and treasure.
On the other hand, it is certainly true that the charade of our holding “peace talks” with the savage Taliban could not be more grotesque.
srikrishnachaitan says
Communism is only antidote for Afghanistan
Christopher Watson says
Didn’t work out too well for the Communist Russians in the 1979 to 1989 takeover.
Infidel says
That’s b’cos the CIA backed myriad jihadist armies moving into Afghanistan to pitch islam as the alternative to communism.
In fact, I have several times argued that the Russians – be it the Romanovs or the Soviets after them – did a much better job in Turkistan than the Brits did in Muslim areas of India or Afghanistan. The Brits pretty much ignored the muslims, but prevented India from becoming a Hindu/Sikh state. Had they not sabotaged the Sikh kingdom of Ranjit Singh in the 19th century, chances are that what’s today Pakistan would have ended up as a Sikh kingdom
The Russians, otoh, did an almost thorough job. In the 19th century, Kazakh warlords were raiding the Russian border, taking Russians as slaves and selling them in slave markets in Buqhara and Khiva. So the Russians invaded Turkistan, overthrew the Emirs of both those places, and conquered that area. They then started Russifying the area, replacing the Arabic script w/ Cyrillic, and pretty much ending the era when Turkistan shared a common culture w/ Afghanistan and Iran. The only mistake the Russians made was not doing what they did in Tatarstan and the Crimea – converting those places to Christianity. The Soviets, when they took over, obviously banned all religion, which helped, but the only downside of that was that Islam was never replaced by another credible religion, only by atheism. Had that happend, Lenin’s statue in Tashkent wouldn’t have been replaced by that of Tamerlane, but maybe a more democratic and secular figure.
Despite these shortcomings, the Russians did a better job than not just the Brits further south, but also the Chinese in Xinjiang. Unlike the Russians who made Russian a major language and culture in Turkistan, the Chinese neglected/failed to do that in East Turkistan – Qashqar, Yarqent and Hotan. If they had, they’d have a lot less problems w/ the Uyghurs
OLD GUY says
Look at these four poor women covered from head to toe. What a shame that muslim men are so weak they can’t see the beauty of one of Allahs creations without violating it.
Whats scary about the open border policies of the western nations is ladies this could be coming to your neighborhood if islam can gain a political base in your home country.
Clifford Fodor says
“Gains for women’s rights in Afghanistan, you say? Over the past two decades? Do tell! Are Afghan women no longer forced to wear burqas? Are they attending schools without fear of jihad attacks designed to discourage women from getting an education? Are they able to institute police proceedings against men who beat them?
There have been no significant gains for women’s rights over the last two decades.”
Didn’t they have all these rights when they were under Russia’s control during the Jimmy Carter years?