These clowns are apparently only now realizing that the Taliban oppress women. They’ve all imbibed the fiction that Islam teaches peace and tolerance, and that Muhammad was the first feminist, so it’s really no surprise.
“Four top international aid groups suspend Afghanistan operations after Taliban bars women from NGO work,” Associated Press, December 27, 2022:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Four major international aid groups on Sunday suspended their operations in Afghanistan following a decision by the country’s Taliban rulers to ban women from working at non-governmental organizations.
Save the Children, the International Rescue Committee, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE said they cannot effectively reach children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without the women in their workforces. The NGO ban was introduced a day earlier, allegedly because women weren’t wearing the Islamic headscarf correctly.
The four NGOs are providing healthcare, education, child protection and nutrition services and support amid plummeting humanitarian conditions.
“We have complied with all cultural norms and we simply can’t work without our dedicated female staff, who are essential for us to access women who are in desperate need of assistance,” Neil Turner, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s chief for Afghanistan, told the Associated Press on Sunday. He said the group has 468 female staff in the country.
The Taliban takeover in August 2021 sent Afghanistan’s economy into a tailspin and transformed the country, driving millions into poverty and hunger. Foreign aid stopped almost overnight. Sanctions on Taliban rulers, a halt on bank transfers and frozen billions in Afghanistan’s currency reserves have already restricted access to global institutions and the outside money that supported the country’s aid-dependent economy before the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces.
In a statement, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that excluding women from schools and NGO work in Afghanistan “can and will lead to catastrophic humanitarian consequences in the short to long term.” The Taliban also banned female students from attending universities across the country this week.
Last month, in an interview with the AP, a top official from the the Red Cross, Martin Schuepp, said more Afghans will struggle for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year ahead. Half of Afghanistan’s population, or 24 million people, are in need of humanitarian aid, according to the group.
Top U.S. officials, including the Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the charge d’affaires to Afghanistan Karen Decker, condemned the move.
Decker, tweeting in Dari on Sunday, said: “As a representative of the largest donor of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, I feel I have the right to an explanation of how the Taliban intends to prevent women & children from starving, when women are no longer permitted to distribute assistance to other women & children.”
Her remarks triggered a response from the Taliban-led government’s chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, who said all institutions wanting to operate in the country are obliged to comply with its rules and regulations.
“We do not allow anyone to talk rubbish or make threats regarding the decisions of our leaders under the title of humanitarian aid,” he said in a tweet.
The International Rescue Committee said it was dismayed by the Taliban decision, adding that more than 3,000 of its staff in Afghanistan are women. “If we are not allowed to employ women, we are not able to deliver to those in need,” the group said in a statement announcing it was suspending work in the country.
The NGO order came in a letter on Saturday from Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammed Hanif. It said any organization found not complying with the order will have their license revoked in Afghanistan….
Wellington says
As long as the stupidest “Great Game” of our time continues, i.e., pretending that Islam is a peaceful, tolerant and noble religion, so long will mankind, and especially here in the West (or what’s left of it), continue to be “surprised” when Muslims in full devout mode act like the Taliban, which semi-barbarians practice their religion most faithfully. N.B., these rogues do understand how to use technology invented by the West to their own parasitic benefit, for instance certain modern weapon systems and communication devices—and the reason why they are only “semi-barbarians.”
Another “Great Game” of our time is pretending that the Uniparty (virtually all Democrats + RINOs) has the best interests of America at heart. No it does not and there is a connection between this “Great Game” and the previously one mentioned. Yes, the two are tied at the hip because when fictions masquerade as facts they have a simpatico relationship with one another often times—as here. Anyone doubting me, ask yourself when was the last time a Democrat or a RINO spoke honestly about Islam?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Interesting term you picked for this trend given this story – ‘Great Game’ – the term that was used in the 19th century to describe the proxy conflicts b/w Britain and Russia, and the attempts to keep as many buffers as possible b/w Russia and British-India
Burnaby Lad says
sunnis in somalia bury their women to the shoulders when they stone them to death
in afghanistan it’s only to the waist
wpm says
The Western leaders have learn nothing in the 21 years after 911 , of terrorism ,death, and general normal jihad and sharia that being practice by those in power in moslem controlled countries and the majority of Moslems in the Moslem world .It is like the wife who gets beat up by the abusive husband always saying to love ones who try to tell her to leave him ,she believes he will change .No one should be surprised when she is killed one day by him.
Where are the Moslem “brothers and Sisters” from the countries around Afghanistan sending aid, doctors medical supplies and food??None of those countries want to take these savages in either ,the BMA (brother my ass ) attitude in the Moslem world is something to behold .Always money for terror ,weapons, jihad never money for food education ,or things that could help the average citizen live above a third world level.
Scotsman48 says
Im shocked, just shocked, that such lovely peaceful men could be so cruel to all the women they wish to rape and stone to death afterwards.
However Old Joe will make sure these Tali Boys will get even more pallets of Cash so they will stop calling us bad names.
Its a mad mad world after all.