The Taliban promises to torture women to death:

The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue.

“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada in a voice message, aired on state television over the weekend, addressing Western officials. “But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public,” he declared in his harshest comments since taking over Kabul in August 2021.

“Harshest”? Careful, Telegraph, you don’t want to be too…er…harsh.

Also “comments”? I don’t call a promise to torture women to death in public a “comment.”

The news media seem not to have the language to talk about items like murderous hatred of women.

This isn’t a “harsh comment”; this is a vow to torture women to death for the pleasure of an audience of men. This is peak genocidal loathing of women, but the news media are too busy trying to soothe the tantrums of men in lipstick to report on it properly.

His remarks have incited outrage among Afghans, with some calling on the international community to increase pressure on the Taliban. “The money that they receive from the international community as humanitarian aid is just feeding them against women,” Tala, a former civil servant, told The Telegraph from the capital Kabul. “As a woman, I don’t feel safe and secure in Afghanistan. Each morning starts with a barrage of notices and orders imposing restrictions and stringent rules on women, stripping away even the smallest joys and extinguishing hope for a brighter future,” she added. “We, the women, are living in prison,” Tala said, “And the Taliban are making it smaller for us every passing day.”

Smaller and more deadly.