UNICEF would never have been “blindsided” and no one would be “baffled” if they had ever taken the trouble to understand the Taliban’s core beliefs and motivating ideology. But such study was foreclosed as “Islamophobic,” and naive, unconsciously ethnocentric Western Leftists projected their own beliefs, priorities and desires upon the Taliban. Now, to their shock, they been offered a lesson in their own unreality, but that lesson will remain unlearned.
“Many baffled by Taliban reneging pledge on girls’ education,” by Kathy Gannon, Associated Press, March 24, 2022:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A news presenter on Afghanistan’s TOLO TV wept as he read the announcement. Images of girls crying after being turned back from school flooded social media. Aid groups and many others remained baffled.
The Taliban have so far refused to explain their sudden decision to renege on the pledge to allow girls to go to school beyond sixth grade. Schools were supposed to reopen to older girls on Wednesday, the start of the new school year.
The ban caught even the Taliban-appointed Education Ministry unprepared. In many places across Afghanistan, some girls in higher grades returned to schools, only to be told to go home.
The move may have been designed to appease the Taliban’s hard-line base but it came at the expense of further alienating the international community. The world has been reluctant to officially recognize Afghanistan’s new rulers, concerned the Taliban would impose similar harsh measures and restrictions — particularly limiting women’s rights to education and work — as when they previously ruled the country in the late 1990s.
The United Nations children’s agency told The Associated Press on Thursday they were blindsided by the announcement.
“I think that yesterday was a very confusing day for all of us,” said Jeannette Vogelaar, UNICEF’s chief of education in Afghanistan.
“We were blindsided,” said Sam Mort, UNICEF’s communications chief in Afghanistan. “All the messages, all the actions that had been taking place led us to believe that schools were opening, and as we understand it, that’s what our counterparts in the Ministry of Education believed as well.”…
BTeboe says
If you’re disappointed you don’t understand Islam. Women are 2nd class citizens. Goats have more rights. You cannot drag 7th Century barbarians into the 21st Century. Keep it up UNICEF and you’ll find yourself in a body bag.
CogitoErgoSum says
Maybe the Taliban just doesn’t know what a girl is and is waiting for someone to provide them with a definition.
gravenimage says
Grimly amusing, given Ketanji Brown Jackson’s claiming she doesn’t know what a woman is because she is not a biologist…
CogitoErgoSum says
They will need to work on the definition of “educated” also. Just when is a “girl” (whatever that is “educated” (whatever that is)?
Westman says
😄
gravenimage says
UNICEF ‘blindsided’ by Taliban reneging on its pledge to allow girls to be educated
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The very definition of willful ignorance. Anyone paying even the slightest attention knew that the Taliban was lying.
Westman says
The Taliban said upfront they would rule by the principles of Sharia. What did UNICEF believe that is – pixie dust and unicorns?
The one thing that can be counted upon when it comes to liberals – ignorance resulting in incompetence. How can people so sensitive to human suffering be so ignorant of actual human motivations and history?
“I have here, from Herr Hitler, a piece of paper….”
Wellington says
As my good Russian friend said to me long ago, Westman, and one who cherished, and still does, the freedoms that America has provided (surely in jeopardy now), Western liberals are idiots; they have no idea how foolish they are.
Violet says
Western Liberals have no idea how foolish they are……I’ll add lazy to that. Too many western people spend more time checking what toppings they can get on a pizza than looking into what their own gov’t policies are doing to their countries.
gravenimage says
Mmmmmmm…..pizza…. sarc/off
CogitoErgoSum says
They are only sensitive to human suffering if they can also see a way for them to get something out of it – like more power over more people … because they always know what is best for the masses … because the masses are ignorant and stupid (I say that with heavy sarcasm).
Wellington says
Islam is a “guaranteed prescription” for permanent second-class status for the female gender, in Afghanistan or elsewhere in the Islamic world ( N.B., degrees of misogyny do indeed vary within the Islamic world but they are there everywhere where Islam is dominant), notwithstanding assertions to the contrary by Muslims, including Stockholm Syndrome per many Muslim women, and a bevy of ignorant dhimmis too—you know the kind, e.g., non-Muslim females wearing an hijab on World Hijab Day though completely ignorant of, and not caring about, Muslim women not wearing an hijab on a fictitious but nonetheless immensely telling World Bare-Head Day in order to show “solidarity” with their non-Muslim sisters, a day that does not exist anymore than Islam stands for true freedom of speech and freedom of religion, never mind all the Muslim females in Muslimworld who, if they refuse to wear the hijab, are subjected to punishment of all kinds, even to the point of death.
I apologize for the exceedingly long sentence above but my Dickensian spirit was up and in full swing.
This is my defense, such as it is, and I’m not backing away from it. Besides, I love long Dickensian-type sentences and which have been utterly lost in the sound-bite age we live in (thanks, modern technology, for nothing). As the anachronism I am, I know I digress but I don’t give a damn.
Westman says
Damn Right!
Infidel says
Wellington
You do bring back memories of the Hugh of old, who’d write 1000 word sentences, and paragraphs that required scrolling about 5 times 😂 🤣
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“I apologize for the exceedingly long sentence above but my Dickensian spirit was up and in full swing.”
No worries, all Jihad Watch posters here have their own “style”.
My posts probably look similar to a Navy pilot’s “Pocket Rocket Checklist”.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear. Wellington! And I “forgive’ your Dickensian spirit.
PRCS says
Men, Muslim men–born with a Qur’an in one hand and a penis in the other–are in charge of women.
https://legacy.quran.com/4/34
Sahih International
Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband’s] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance – [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand.
Which this NYC imam, quoting Qur’an’s wife-beating verse, asserts:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/home/page/5
James Lincoln says
The folks at UNICEF need to spend some time on Jihad Watch – and read islam 101.
Their very lives may depend upon it…
OLD GUY says
I say Relief Aid, You say Humanitarian Aid, the Taliban say Hell Yes send the money we need bullets.
As long as UNICEF has been around they should have known better.
ISLAM is deceit.
The west needs to understand the islamic migration is an invasion of another country via refugees.
Violet says
Spot on Old Guy! It truly is an invasion & without leaders who fully understand this are elected into power in western country’s it will continue until……..? .
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
In Islam, women are merely brood mares, one and all. Just ask any radical Western feminist. That’s why they are so quick to defend their favorite religion. The other day I saw an interview with General Patraeus conducted by an attractive Muslim woman proudly wearing the symbol of the oppressed women of the muslim world- the hajib. The absurdity of this contrived arrangement designed to promote a subliminal message indicating that even the former head of the C.I.A. is all for the acceptance of Islam as a legitimate religion repleat with pro democracy leanings. I can’t imagine what the general was thinking knowing full well what a horrible ideology this hajib wearing tool represented. The media will stop at nothing, including subliminal messaging, to obfuscate the horrible realities of Islam.
Spiro says
UNICEF
How stupid can you get
Bikinis not Burkas says
The head of UNICEF needs to have Quran 33:33 tattooed to the insides of their eyelids in fluorescent ink so they can’t fail to read it!
Quran 33:33
And abide in your houses and do not display yourselves as [was] the display of the former times of ignorance. And establish prayer and give zakāh and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah intends only to remove from you the impurity [of sin], O people of the [Prophet’s] household, and to purify you with [extensive] purification.
— Saheeh International