Here’s a prediction: the Taliban will gain legitimacy and support long before it begins respecting the basic rights of women and minorities.
“Blinken outlines path to legitimacy for Taliban,” by Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, August 30, 2021:
Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged the prospect of additional diplomatic contact with the Taliban in a speech marking the end of a dangerous evacuation effort and the withdrawal of the last U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Going forward, any engagement with the Taliban-led government in Kabul will be driven by one thing: “our vital national interests,” Blinken said. “If we can work in the new Afghan government in a way that helps secure those interests … and in a way that brings greater stability to the country and the region, and that protects the gains of the last two decades, we will do it.”…
“The United States will continue to support humanitarian aid to the Afghan people,” Blinken confirmed. “Consistent with our sanctions on the Taliban, the aid will not flow through the government, but rather through independent organizations, such as U.N. agencies and [non-government organizations.] And, we expect that those efforts will not be impeded by the Taliban or anyone else.”
Blinken listed a series of factors in any more fundamental diplomatic recognition of the Taliban.
“The Taliban seeks international legitimacy and support. Our message is: any legitimacy and any support will have to be earned,” he said. “The Taliban can do that by meeting commitments and obligations on freedom of travel, respecting the basic rights of the Afghan people, including women and minorities, upholding its commitments on counterterrorism, not carrying out reprisal violence against those who choose to stay in Afghanistan, and forming an inclusive government that can meet the needs and reflect the aspirations of the Afghan people.”…
BTeboe says
Blinken has no clue about Islam. Like the Taliban give a rat’s patoot about how they look to the rest of the world. Our govt is filled with stupid ignorant morons, or they’re doing this on purpose to help usher in communism. After which Islam will do them in just like the rest of the infidels. Demanding that they change 1400 years of oppression against women tells me they’re on some really, really good drugs. And I want some.
PMK says
Absolutely!!!!
Our elites don’t want to know the truth about Islam. (It’s not just the Taliban that disrespects women and minorities. Bigotry is the basis of Islam.)
This morning a caller to C-SPAN said that the people of Afghanistan cannot be Westernized. Her comments were dismissed as racist. But we in the West are supposed to give up our own culture and norms so as not to ‘offend’ Muslims.
mortimer says
Does Blinken think that REAL ISLAM promotes women’s dignity?
GUESS AGAIN, BLINKEN …
– I think that women were created for nothing but evil
– The woman is a toy, whoever takes her, let him care for her
– Mohammed asked some women, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?” The women said, “Yes,” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.”
– I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women.
– Bad omen is in the woman, the house and the horse
– Women, slaves and camels are the same
– Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman
– “Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden,” is in fact recorded in Tafsir al-Qurtubi
– “Hang up your scourge where your wife can see it”
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Blinken is a naïve Pollyanna posing as spontaneous expert. He obviously knows nothing about the TAQIYYA DOCTRINE, the NEAR-ENEMY DOCTRINE, the MISOGYNY DOCTRINE and DHIMMI DOCTRINE of canonical Islam ! He is UNPREPARED for his job and should be fired.
mortimer says
Mohammed is the speaker in all the hadiths quoted above, Mr. Blinken. That’s real Islam, buddy, not your surmisals.
Does Blinken think they will change Islam because he tells them to?
gravenimage says
All true, Mortimer.
mortimer says
The Taliban will gain recognition by governments that want to trade with them. It will have to do with market forces, rather than liberal values which those who call themselves ‘liberals’ will abandon at the drop of a hat whenever those values stand in the way of their fascist dreams of unopposable power.
The Dems have never cared about the rights of Muslim women until now!
gravenimage says
The Taliban were mostly isolated last time they were in power. Grimly, more of the world seems to want to play footsie with them this time ’round.
Graham Bryant says
TAKE NOTE : THE TALIBAN SHALL NOT CHANGE AND IT IS STUPID TO EVEN CONSIDER THAT THEY WILL,TO GIVE FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS TO WOMEN AND TO MAKE CHILD MARRIAGE ILLEGAL-IT IS IMPOSSIBLE!! One good indicator is what they do in slicing the heads off children and adults which they have done-EVEN FOR THIS THE WORLD DOES NOT STAND UP AGAINST THEM-THEY NEED TO BE WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Any God shall deal with islam and those who appease them(biden and the democrats-your day of punishment is coming for you and you shall not escape-this the truth!! l do not say this out of hate but from wisdom and good understanding which is of God! King David complained about the evil men who devised evil against him continually but King David “saw their end…and they were no more – GONE forever!! i PRAY THAT THE Northern Alliance is supported and succeeds in dealing with the brutality of the taliban and ISIS-You only have to view their decapitating of their victims which l have seen and that was enough!!-grossly evil and extreme wickedness-PERHAPS THERE SHALL BE A PLACE FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS WHERE THEY SHALL SUFFER ETERNAL FIRE AND SUFFER -the BIBLE is not entirely clear but it give s some indaication…….
gravenimage says
The “Northern Alliance” are Jihadists, as well.
And one hears little about them these days, in any case.
Michael Copeland says
It is easy for a muslim regime to respect the rights of women in Sharia. They have hardly any rights at all.
Graham Bryant says
There is no legitimacy with the taliban or isis
gravenimage says
Except in Islam, of course.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Blinken, The Taliban do not care about liberal rights, most people except you, know this.
The likelyhood of the Taliban killing innocent women and children or their opposition with the awesome weapons you and jihad Biden presented them with, is great, and you will feign surprise.
By the way, it was scandalous how jihad Joe looked at his watch on numerous occasions , while the ceremony for the 13 great young men and women were being honoured. Joe there are no words in my vocabulary that can express my utter disdain for you.
Graham Bryant says
For the world (RUSSIA CHINA USA-BIDEN IRAN AND PAKISTAN) to stand by while the taliban and their evil cohorts execute MUSLIM men women and children(AND THE AMERICANS which they are already doing ) by slicing their heads off and shooting some as they have done- THEY SHALL INDEED ANSWER TO THE CREATOR THAT IS WHY HE HAS TO COME TO THIS EARTH WITH ALL POWER AND GLORY with his holy angels BURSTING THROUGH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN IN THE SIGHT OF EVERY HUMAN BEING-EVERY EYE SHALL SEE THE COMING OF OUR GREAT GOD AND LORD JESUS THE CHRIST who is indeed the beloved creator of us all!! islam does evil according to their quran which is not the original peaceful quran before 1979-TAKE NOTE PEOPLE OF THIS EVIL EARTH!! To think they are following the creators instructions which they are not they are the dictates of men of arab extraction being the most evil of them———————————–they are the enemies even of their own muslim people whom they kill without mercy!! hamas in lsrael is an example of that for the suffering of the arab people(palestinians men women and children) because of the continuous military attacks on ISRAEL-JEWS!! ISLAM SHALL NEVER CEASE TO KILL THE JEWS!!!!
Rarely says
They do respect the rights of women and minorities. Where they disagree with the West is exactly what those rights are. Definitions become super important in this “dialogue”.
Infidel says
Yeah, if one reads things from the POV of islam, the rights of allah trump the rights of all other entities. Once once accepts that, everything about islam is as clear as day
Rarely says
It is interesting to note that until relatively recent times the rights of women and non-muslims living in muslim lands compared most favourably to the situation in western Europe. Jews, for example, actually fled Europe to live in North Africa. In many cases dhimmi status was preferable to life in western Europe. Similarly “women rights” in the west have a checkered history.
Islam trails in both areas to be sure but we shouldn’t go breaking our arms patting ourselves on the back just yet.
gravenimage says
Yes, we’ve heard this sort of thing before–don’t you know that girls in the west were stoned to death for looking at boys before 1958? Bad dhimmis! sarc/off
Ecosse1314 says
Maybe you could expand a little on your sweeping statements. What legal persecution would a muslim face in 19th century europe.
Kepha says
Who are his aides? Winken and Nod?
I can just hear a Talib spokesman replying: “Our women enjoy all rights accorded to them under Sharia, which many in your own country observe to be wise, humane, just, and giving of dignity to the oppressed. As for minorities, not all of us in the Taliban are Pashto or Tajik; for we also have Balochi, Hazara, Aimaq, and Turkmen who joined our cause..”
gravenimage says
Blinken: Taliban can only earn ‘legitimacy and support’ by ‘respecting the basic rights of women and minorities’
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Blinken should not hold his breath…
Ecosse1314 says
Then again maybe he should.
Giacomo Latta says
Well, that’s a threat that has shaken the Taliban to its core. Expect the Taliban to create a Ministry of Women, run by a man, of course.
OLD GUY says
The WOKE JOKE, Islam a religion of LOVE and PEACE.
ISLAM will fight and MURDER anyone in its way towards world domination.
As long as the wealthy elite feel safe and enjoy their treatment in their million dollar condo’s in Dubai, Islam will continue to murder the little people.
When Islam gains enough control around the world the elite will be the targets, and then start to do something about it. Until then the rest of us are at risk.