According to the Middle East Institute, the Taliban’s “religious roadmap for Afghanistan” is grounded in strict Sharia, as Jihad Watch has frequently stated. The Taliban pledge:
We are devout Muslims who fight for God and oppose corrupt leaders — whether they are former Afghan communists, jihadi leaders, or educated technocrats — and we have an alternative vision for a new Afghanistan.
It has been argued — and not without Islamic apologists expressing deep offense — that the more religious a Muslim becomes, the more abusive and intolerant of infidels, minorities and women he or she becomes. Yet it is often true. The dictates of the Sharia that Westerners find most objectionable are based on Islamic tenets, which are adhered to strictly by groups such as the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the like. Recently, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared of the Taliban that “Turkey has nothing that contradicts their beliefs.”
In Afghanistan, women are a main focus for human rights groups, since their lives are in utter misery under Taliban rule. 90% of women in Afghanistan “are subjected to some form of domestic violence.” They are oppressed and dictated to by their government and their male guardian overlords.
“‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan,” by Zahra Nader, Guardian, August 28, 2023:
First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.
“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”
It was not an isolated act of desperation. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, there has been a disturbing surge in the number of women taking their own lives or attempting to do so, data collected from public hospitals and mental health clinics across a third of Afghanistan’s provinces shows….
Ian Senior says
I’m opposed to the Islamification of Europe and Britain. We need leaders to pushback this oppressive cruel and barbaric ideology from western countries.
Islam belongs in the Arab world not the Western world.
I pray for ordinary Muslims who are living under a harsh regime which deprives them of their human rights to express themselves and deprives women of education and jobs so they can have financial independence.
Militant Islam needs irradicating so ordinary Muslims are set free to create a prosperous and peaceable lifestyle.
Hoi Polloi says
So much for the feminist ME-money-sponsored lie that muslim women are liberated by all the coverings.
Walter Sieruk says
This disturbing rise in female suicide since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, “thanks to Joe Biden, is no surprise since the cruel vicious Islamic misogyny very strong and malicious.
Not very long ago, a Taliban spokesman answered a question asked of him about the basic human rights of females, both girls and women, he declared” We guarantee all their rights within the limits of Islam.”
All aware people who understand Islam know that the last four words of that statement has an obvious meaning.
Which is that with Islam the rights of females are very limited. As in within the Islamic view, they have little to no rights at all. .
As this has been so well explained by Brigitte Gabriel in her book, entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED in Chapter 9 of the title “Islam’s Contempt for Women” which informs its reader on page 171 “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.”
In addition, on the next page it further reads” Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
The tragic and sad reality is that Islam is a religion of brutal, cruel, harsh and even, at times, murderous misogyny.
Walter Sieruk says
In Afghanistan, the Taliban detests the education of schoolgirls. This is a reflection of the religion of Islam, which is full of vicious and oppressive misogyny. For Islam has in essence, the anti –female vicious spirit. This is something that the apologists for Islam in the West would never be honest enough to admit is true.
The Taliban want the women trapped in Afghanistan to under the darkness tyranny and oppression of Sharia. Therefore, they ban them from receiving an education.
As Thomas Jefferson had, so wisely, declared “Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Westman says
“How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)”. Maybe this has some relation to why Afghan women, being close to free and then re-slaved, are killing themselves rather than having their lives stolen by unthankful brutes.
Would it be fair to suggest those who say how great Islam makes their lives are not women under the control of men in Islam-dominated nations?
Would it also be fair to say Western feminist silence, on the matter of the defacto slavery and equivalence to property of Muslim women, is a clear indication of feminist fear of any response from Muslim men?
Would one also suspect that Western attempts to bring “Democracy” to Muslim nations, through warfare and reconstruction, always fail because it undermines the religion-declared, highly-valued, control and servitude of Muslim females to males. In Western society, as the song goes, love is, “The golden crown that makes a man a king. ” In Afghanistan, it appears, control of women is the Golden Crown.
Islam appears to be a damper upon any advanced industrial function and economy, the rich Muslim states living from the sale of natural resources rather than the production of superior products. In a more typical Muslim nation, a woman or several wives might be the only means of production a man, “owns”.
Do the no-go zones in France and Germany represent a condoning-out of civil authority so that the exploitation of women and the norms of Islam can continue without interference?
It seems obvious that Islam will only die out in a wealthy environment where women have a choice to tell Muslim men, NO! Wars will never end Islam because it is a male-religion of war until all accept Allah. It is the women of Islam who will end Islam by leaving it.
tim gallagher says
I have occasionally wondered if plenty of women, trapped in this primitive and misogynistic religion, islam, do kill themselves out of desperation and misery because life is so hellish for women in that vile religion. It is interesting to hear that there are lots of suicides in that disgustingly primitive country, Afghanistan, under the knuckle draggers, the Taliban, unevolved scum that they are. islam gives girls and women such a horrendous life, so suicide must provide the only way out of the hell they are in for many women.
dhu-mhan-yhu says
soooo, whatever became of all the American citizens who became trapped when biden abandoned them ?
Henry A Crawford says
Joe Obiden has more blood on his hands then Hitler.
L Young says
The hatred of women goes back all the way to The Garden if Eden when God Almighty announced that the serpent’s head would be CRUSHED by the “Seed of woman.” It’s interesting to note that the seed of man is always mentioned elsewhere…meaning Biblical lineage stems from the Father/Male of the relationship. However, in this unique instance…it’s the Seed of a Woman who will come into the world and CRUSH the serpants head after the serpent has “bruised his heel” (Genesis). So satan knew that there would be someone supremely & Divinely appointed & anointed by God The Father who would DEFEAT satan. Satan has many evil methods of lying, killing and attempting to destroy The TRUTH. Islam is one of those Lies. Islam denies The eternal “Son-ship” of Jesus. Islam even gives him a name “Isa” which is Not the Arabic equivalent of Yeshua. Islam is a MAN-made belief system which is based on fleshly earthly desires of males of that time. It falsely promises paradise full of deflowering of eternal virgins! What kind of perverse brothel “paradise” is that? Sadly, bc of the threat of violence, abandonment, exile, imprisonment & death…many Muslims are too afraid to even question the tenets of their religion that they were born into. It’s all consuming system. The religious leaders either knowingly lie or are not educated enough about the real meanings of the Quran & Hadiths…& they just pass on non sense to followers who don’t validate their claims. They can say oh Muhammad was the greatest of mankind & the Muslims will clap and cheer, but do they know what Muhammad promoted? What he truly practiced? NO. the way for Islam to decline is through EDUCATION & exposure using their own sources! I pray for all Muslims to seek the TRUTH! It’s our duty as Christians to inform ourselves about their religion & sources to be ready to expose the falsehoods. Islam is of the anti-Christ spirit bc it denies Jesus Christ as the ETERNAL UNIQUE SON of GOD The Father Almighty!!! I pray for those suffering under Islamic suppression to find the HOPE which is only found in Our Lord & Savior JESUS Christ!! The Messiah! Keep up the good fight, Robert Spencer & his team at Jihad watch. I pray for their protection & for Muslims to see how evil true Islam / sharia really is. It strips people of their dignity & especially suppresses women …sadly, pets like dogs in America have more rights than Muslim women in Islamic controlled nations. Muhammad said in a Hadith that a “man should Not Be questioned about why he beat his wife!” Yet in America a person can go to jail for abusing a dog ..& rightly so! We are to take care of & respect the animals which God created & gave us dominion over. I also especially pray for the little girls who are stripped of their innocence & deprived of their right to LEARN & become educated-reach their goals. They are sadly treated as a commodity to their fathers. They can be given in “marriage” (it’s not a marriage as Biblical thinking – Islamic “marriage” is a CONTRACT. the wife is basically an employee of the husband. It’s not “a man shall leave his parents & become ONE FLESH w his wife” nor is it “a man shall love his wife as Christ loved the Church”. There’s no comparison! I pray for Muslims to see the LOVE & HOPE IN Jesus…””there’s no Jew or Greek, Slave or free-man, no male nor female…for we are all ONE in Christ Jesus!” Now THAT is the Hope &, Love which Lord Jesus Christ provides to all of those who believe in HIM as Saviour! MAY the Holy Spirit work miraculously throughout the Muslim world & within the hearts who are seeking THE TRUTH! God Bless! MARANATHA