“And if anyone of the idolaters seeks your protection, then protect him so that he may hear the word of Allah, and afterward bring him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know.” (Qur’an 9:6)
“Taliban ‘Welcomes’ Pregnant Reporter Denied Reentry to New Zealand Amid COVID Protocols,” by Katie Wermus, Newsweek, January 31, 2022:
A pregnant New Zealand reporter turned to the Taliban for help after she was rejected entry into her own country because of strict COVID-19 protocols.
Charlotte Bellis, 35, is 25 weeks pregnant and living in Afghanistan with her partner, Belgian photojournalist Jim Juylebroek, to cover the withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Associated Press reported. She applied to return to New Zealand to give birth to her daughter, but the country denied her request because of the ongoing harsh COVID-19 protocols, which has sparked backlash.
Bellis was a reporter for Al Jazeera and was sent to Afghanistan on assignment to cover the war. When she found out she was pregnant at her home base in Doha, Qatar, her partner was stuck in Kabul and she couldn’t get back into New Zealand because of the COVID-19 border protocols.
In her article she wrote for The New Zealand Herald on Friday, Bellis said she asked her doctor in Doha, hypothetically, would she call the police if she was pregnant. Her doctor told her, “I won’t, but I can’t treat you and I can only say you need to get married or get out of the country as soon as possible.”
It’s illegal to be pregnant and unmarried in Qatar and Bellis resigned from her position in November because of it, according to the Associated Press.
Bellis needed to get out of Doha and was trying to enter New Zealand via a lottery-style system and applied for an emergency visa, but was rejected. The AP reported Bellis headed back to Afghanistan as it’s the only place she and her partner had visas to live.
In the article, Bellis said she reached out to a senior contact in the Taliban and asked if she was unable to return to New Zealand and came to Kabul while pregnant would they have a problem.
The Taliban told Bellis she didn’t need to worry. “No we’re happy for you, you can come and you won’t have a problem. Just tell people you’re married and if it escalates, call us. Don’t worry. Everything will be fine.”
Michael Copeland says
That couple who eloped in Afghanistan were told everything would be fine if they returned to their village. They were stoned to death.
mortimer says
Strict Sharia supremacist will not impose the more religious parts of Sharia on non-Muslim kafirs, but I don’t know what attitude the Taliban has towards unmarried, cohabiting kafirs. Since there are no other religions in Afghanistan and no secular marriage, they will have to become Muslims likely.
mortimer says
Mohammed was brought a preganant woman who was unmarried. He waited until the child was born and then had her STONED TO DEATH.
Does Charlotte Bellis know that hadith?
john smith says
I’m pretty certain she doesn’t.
joell says
“Yes” said the crocodile to the frog…
“You will be just fine”…..
Fitna says
Imagine, a terrorist group is treating this woman with more decency (for now) than her retarded fellow non-Muslim country, maybe like a cat playing with a mouse.
This reminds of the story of the burning girl’s school in Saudi Arabia, they were forced back in by the Saudi police because they weren’t wearing hijabs so they all burned to death.
This is what NZ did to her, put her life at extreme risk over Covid. The sensible thing is to let them enter and self-isolate for 2 weeks.
I think she has poor judgment firstly for working for Al Jazeera as a white woman and secondly for going to these very dangerous Islamic states.
I’m surprised she hadn’t been kidnapped, gang-raped and killed already. They’d probably turn her into a prostitute as well. Now she’s trapped and anything can happen to them.
Fitna says
Maybe they should rub their face with brown makeup or shoe-polish and then pretend they’re Muslim refugees, they’ll be welcomed with open arms, not given any covid checks and handed free money and a hotel room.
Infidel says
BlackBrownface?
Infidel says
BlackBrownface?Fitna says
indeed infidel
Keith O says
Unfortunately an accurate comment!
Fitna says
Thanks Keith wish it wasn’t so but that’s the ugly upside-down world we find ourselves in today.
somehistory says
So they told her just to say they are married and if anyone gives them, trouble….
Why not just get married, already? She and her baby are not safe.
The taliban said they would go easy on the former government people…but they have killed at least 100 of them, so far. mozlums lie. The taliban are mozlums in the first degree. They lie.
And the NZ people who rejected helping her and her unborn baby…probably issued a death sentence for this woman and child.
Phil Copson says
“And the NZ people who rejected helping her and her unborn baby…probably issued a death sentence for this woman and child.”
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The authorities in Western countries have no problem in issuing death sentences by refusing medical treatment “because of Covid” / driving business owners to suicide through lock-downs “because of Covid” / potentially causing Canadian truckers and their children to die of hypothermia by illegally confiscating their fuel “because of Covid” / enabling the murder and maiming of dozens of innocent citizens during Antifa-BLM organised riots because of “Er…y’know …equity!” / or enabling the deaths of tens of thousands by enabling the importing and distribution of Fentanyl.
The only thing they have a problem with is owning up to their complicity.
Infidel says
Hilarious story! If anyone in New Zealand or any western country had demanded that she marry the father of her fetus, the entire MSM would be on her case!
Now, she can’t be treated in Doha b’cos she’s unmarried, NZ won’t let her in b’cos Covid, and so she has to resign from her job… The Taliban told her to pretend that she was married and then calling them if she gets into trouble
Wonder how long they’ll put up w/ her. I’m guessing that she will convert to islam out of gratitude, and probably be rewarded w/ citizenship of Afghanistan, which will be well deserved
Doomer says
Regarding Afghanistan, it could also be they HAD to accept her because of the PRE-ISLAMIC tradition religiously held by all the Pashtun tribes called PASHTUNWALI.
There Pashtunwali is a CODE of HONOR:
The three primary principles:
1. HOSPITALITY: Showing hospitality and profound respect to all visitors, regardless of race, religion, national affiliation or economic status
and doing so without any hope of remuneration or favour. Pashtuns will go to great lengths to show their hospitality.
2. ASYLUM: protection given to a person against his enemies. People are protected at all costs; even those running from the law must be given refuge until the situation can be clarified.
Also be used when the vanquished party in a dispute is prepared to go into the house of the victors and ask for their forgiveness: this is a peculiar form of “chivalrous” surrender, in which an enemy seeks “sanctuary” at the house of their foe.
3. JUSTICE and REVENGE
gravenimage says
Doomer, your idea that the bloody Taliban is regularly chivalrous to unmarried pregnant Infidel women is unfortunately mistaken.
DavidR says
If the Taliban keep up that kind of behaviour they will get canceled. Hosting an unmarried pregnant non Muslim and her “bound for Hell” boyfriend is not even slightly halal.
PRCS says
Good news for her:
Feb 1, 2022
Charlotte Bellis accepts new emergency MIQ spot, returning to New Zealand in March
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/charlotte-bellis-accepts-new-emergency-miq-spot-returning-to-new-zealand-in-march.html
gravenimage says
As I mentioned below, New Zealand has reached out to her and her boyfriend, even though he is not a New Zealander.
So this from Bellis and the Taliban is likely all Taqiyya.
somehistory says
her refusal reminds me of all that the pa has rejected over the years. Ulterior motives on their part…such as the destruction of Israel….so what is this woman up to? she is risking the life of her unborn child, even if she believes she is safe.
Infidel says
In that case, she and her boyfriend should just embrace islam, marry and settle down in Afghanistan for good. The Taliban may well spare her, particularly if they join the Taliban. They can work on their Pashto or Urdu skills
PRCS says
You’re entitled to your opinion, of course….
James Lincoln says
I believe that this will not end well – but how I hope that I am wrong…
gravenimage says
Taliban welcomes unmarried, pregnant reporter denied reentry to New Zealand because of COVID rules
………….
Let’s see–I’m pregnant and unmarried and can’t get back to civilized New Zealand–yeah, a tough position. As I look through my options, I decide the best thing to do is to–chat up the Taliban who have just taken over Afghanistan, a place that during the best of times imprisoned unmarried women who had sex, and that has in the past stoned such women to death?
What is wrong with this picture?
I know I’d rather give birth in an airport any where in the West than this.
Is Charlotte Bellis just bizarrely naive? Is she Muslim, having reported for Al Jazeera, or was working for them just seen as an “in” into Afghanistan? Certainly, her coverage of the Taliban invasion has been criticized as whitewashing the Taliban. Whatever the case, this seems like the mother of all bad ideas–pun intended.
Besides this, it looks as though New Zealand *has* reached out to her so she can come home–and offered a spot to her non-New Zealand boyfriend as well, but she has several times rejected the offer. Curiouser and curiouser…
Infidel says
Isn’t she the genius who asked 3 Taliban guys about including women in their government, and they just laughed at her? As I mentioned above, she and her boyfriend should just embrace islam and settle down there
Fitna says
Indeed Graven, if I was her, I’d apply to any western nation and hope one of them takes me in. If not then any other non-Islamic nations, before I’d ever consider settling in Afghanistan or other Islamic hellhole.
abu taleb says
If a western woman must turn for help to Taliban, then her own left government must be quite bad (as well as other left governments). From what I see so far, the governments of NZ, Australia, USA, Canada, UK, France and other left governments are indeed quite bad.
European pagan says
Her own country HAS TO allow her to enter
Dawne says
Sorry but this story just doesn’t add up. Why did she not just “pretend to be married” in Doha? Also as a NZ citizen she could have flown to the UK as a tourist without the need for a visa (NZ being part of the Commonwealth) She could stay for at least 3 months as a tourist and then does anybody seriously think the UK government would have kicked her out at the end of that time? Good Lord, they don’t even expel foreign terrorists.
Some sort of propaganda going on here.
somehistory says
I believe you are right.
Infidel says
And that propaganda is probably originating from her end. She’s learnt well in the employment of Al Jazeera