Exclusion
Back to school in Afghanistan – no not you.
The Taliban have excluded girls from Afghan secondary schools, with only boys and male teachers allowed back into classrooms.
Naturally. Girls are for pumping out babies, not for learning.
Schoolgirls and their parents on Saturday said prospects were bleak.
“I am so worried about my future,” said one Afghan schoolgirl, who had hoped to be a lawyer.
“Everything looks very dark. Every day I wake up and ask myself why I am alive? Should I stay at home and wait for someone to knock on the door and ask me to marry him? Is this the purpose of being a woman?”
Her father said: “My mother was illiterate, and my father constantly bullied her and called her an idiot. I didn’t want my daughter to become like my mum.”
Taliban men want all women to become like that.
Identitarians are strangely absent on this topic.
Except when they’re accusing us of focusing on trans when there are so many people hurting.
If this girl and her father do not want her to wind up like her grandmother, they will have to fight for it; they will have to build a civil society where that is possible, and which does not come at the cost of the daily killing of scores of their fellow citizens by the cruel machines of a distant empire. That may well entail them leaving Afghanistan for a society where such is already the case, but if they stay, they must fight. There is nothing else for it.
There’s so much more devastation ahead for Aghanistan’s women and children. Women who are the heads of their households will have no way to earn money to buy food and pay rent. Not only will they and their children starve, they will end up out in the streets.
Women made up a third of the rural labor force and now the harvest is due to come in, with an already devastated economy. Removing women from the public eye is not only cruel, it is stupid. I don’t know how much more of Allah’s Vaunted Mercy the Afghans will be able to stand.
I think I commented about this here before, but very soon after we abandoned Afghanistan to its own devices, a Taliban spokesman appeared on the BBC saying that of course girls would be allowed to go to school.
The BBC nodded and smiled and ignored everyone who said that girls might indeed be allowed to go to school, but certainly not the same schools as boys and definitely wouldn’t be taught the same things as boys are taught.
The BBC thought the message was just fine and in no way suspect.
A little later, a Taliban spokesman appeared on the BBC saying that such things would be up to local leaders who would organise them according to local concern. Again, the BBC smiled and nodded and agreed that this was best because it was a matter of custom and religion. Of course girls would still be educated, but according to tradition.
Even though they were told that “educated according to tradition” means educated not at all.
They steadfastly refuse to make a fuss about anything that might be distantly connected to something that might sound a bit like a second cousin to racism. They lost sight of what their entire job is decades ago.
The situation is of course, horrible. Worsened by the 20 year/two trillion dollar war referenced by Seth. There are dozens of countries dominated by the Religion of Peace or the more toxic, unredeemed versions of Christianity where this situation is sadly true. Even when the religion is purportedly “atheistic” – what is the impact on families and personal development by the CCP’s policies towards the Uighurs?
Just sad to see. I don’t agree that we should be talking about “abandoning” Afghanistan, though. How many more decades and trillions of dollars of failed military intervention are you demanding to “save” the country? Maybe if there had been fewer “accidental” bombings of rural villages and wedding parties the Taliban would have lack support?
Don’t put words in my mouth, Brian M, I demanded nothing.
Brian M, don’t you know we were only destroying the country to save it? (Shades of Vietnam.)
At least we saved Vietnam abd Cambodia from going Communist!
Oh, wait.
Latslot: not intending to put words in anyone’s mouth. More reacting to the broader liberal implication that we could have/should have saved Afghanistan. I sadly don’t think so? And such thinking supports the neverending cries of neocons AND cruise missile liberals for more war…more intervention….more bombs
Michael: it can be persuasively argued that clumsy American interventions and massive bombing campaigns helped pave the way for the horrors of Pol Pot and crew?