Taliban 'do not see women as human', says Malala in Pakistan
(www.bbc.com)
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Summary
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned the Taliban’s treatment of women at a Pakistan summit on girls’ education in Muslim communities, stating, “The Taliban do not see women as human beings.”
She criticized their policies banning Afghan girls from education and work as “gender apartheid” and un-Islamic.
Afghanistan is the only country banning education for girls beyond grade six, affecting 1.5 million girls.
Malala urged Muslim leaders to challenge these practices and advocate for girls’ education globally.
The Taliban declined to attend or comment.
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ahhh the wonders of religion. humanity's self-induced blight
Why do you jump to religion and not simply conclude that the Talibans are massive incels? You do realize that out of two billion Muslims only the Taliban are doing this shit right? Malala is calling them un-Islamic for a reason.
religion is in itself a ridiculous premise, and the type is largely irrelevant (islam/christianity).
they are a disease that should be eradicated. humanity will never move forward with such archaic ideas.
all religions were created by con artists. theyre just tools used to control other humans. its nothing more than that.
islam itself founded by a pedophilic warlord. volume of the indoctrinated is irrelevant. kinda funny how the best predictor of which of these cults any particular human follows is geography.
o0o0 sick burn. hard to refute reality.
every holy book has been written by humans with something to gain in their use. christianity responsible for some of the largest swaths of dead humans in the crusades. the bible crafted by carefully selected passages by humans across millennia. even modern bullshit like mormonism and scientology, created by documented con artists. but oh no, yours is the 'one true' religion.
all religions are false Except yours, right? cuz yours is somehow special?
I’m an atheist. It’s not.
I mean the other guy seems to not understand that ideas spread geographically so yeah, not a good look.
Just ignore this troll. You’re giving him a platform.
Ok will you be consistent and mention the same of other ideologies that have wreaked havoc? By the way you associate things you have to acknowledge the death and destruction brought upon by secular and atheist states from colonialism to modern day imperialism.
I’ll list some examples of states that caused a lot of death and destruction:
USSR a secular atheist state that killed millions and committed ethnic cleansing. (One ex. Is what they did in Kazakhstan)
USA and France and their invasion of Vietnam
All that was done by secular states in the colonial era
all that is being currently by secular states in the neo colonial era
US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
I can keep going.
It also specifically should be mentioned how Judaism is a disease. People think Judaism is somehow “better” or “more tolerant”, as a Jewish person myself I can personally confirm that Judaism is just as capable of oppression and violent hatred (just look at Ben Gvir).
Because their religion literally teaches them to treat women like shit?
And it’s not only them doing this. They all have shit women’s rights records.
I'm sure this is a well-researched claim and not something you just made up, but let's not get into that.
Literally no Muslim country in the world is as insane about oppressing women as Taliban Afghanistan. And that includes even the notorious ones like Iran. Nothing in Islamic beliefs or the behavior of Muslim countries resembles the ridiculousness of Taliban policies, and you should learn at least that before you shit on other people's cultures.
Look at Rojava in Kurdistan (you did say “all” Muslims, no taking that back). It’s like saying the Christian religion is the reason the crusades were bad and not because they were violent men with horrible ideas. Innocent people worship innocently. I don’t like jihadists or Islamic nationalists or caliphates either, but I at least don’t attribute that to Muslims entirely, just the stupid ones. Most people don’t understand the difference between those who just want to be Muslim (look at Islamic people in Kurdistan and, yes, even Israel who has many religions living together relatively peacefully to the US) and those who want jihad and intifadas and Islam-directed oppression via the state. That’s because you believed the propaganda.
There are religious nuts in Islam. They are jihadists. Hamas was the suicide bombers back in the 2000s. The taliban, ISIS, ISIL, Al-queda, the Houthis, Al-Shabaab, etc etc. They are all Islamic nationalists. It’s like seeing an American and assuming they’re transphobic just because MAGA is.
It is very clearly not only taliban. Extremist groups are, shocker, more extreme. Muslim religion and culture tends to treat muslim women as second class citizens. The more western the muslim country, the more they treat women like equals. Christians treat lbtq communty like shit and you wouldn’t say americans in 70s were extremist christian nutjobs as it was standard to be homophobic, part of the culture.
Says right there it is opposite of what the religion teaches?!
At least wait until there is an article that confirms your bias to spit your poison, dude.
Religion is not what religion teaches.
Look what they do, not what they say.
I look at neither. I look at what the scripture says.
Then you are a fool.
Traffic regulations tell drivers to stop at red lights. Dude sees some cars run red lights and goes on hating traffic regulations saying they encourage running red lights. Random guy points out the absurdity but gets called a fool.
Well, what can I say? Have a nice day, dude.
then you should already know it isn’t.
well, it isn’t, so that’s that
Ah yes, but other ideologies which have been destructive are not? I hope you’ll be consistent in pointing out the secular states of today continue to wreak havoc, death and destruction in the middle east and Africa. (Let’s not forget colonialism)
And the secular atheist communist states of Russia and China, those didn’t commit ethnic cleansing and killed millions of people?
I’ll just mention the destruction that the USSR brought to Kazakhstan that lingers to this day as an example.
I can assure you that misogyny is not a result of religion, religion is just used to excuse it.
And because it’s excused it’s allowed to exist.
It’s the sickness and its own cure! Just like other drug addictions.
Wow, neither do US republicans. So much in common.
They’re also both religious fundamentalists who have very little care for religious scripture but love using religious imagery as a tool of oppression, huh they really are alike.
When incels have complete control, basically.
It’s probably good they have basic religious differences or Republicans and the Taliban would have joined forces by now.
Lore accurate abrahamic religions are peak incelcore. They remove the incel stuff to make it more appealing for the less hardcore fanbase.
Statistically speaking you are wrong. There are around a billion Muslim and a few thousands of Taliban.
Statistically speaking do not look at womenstats maps and draw your own conclusions from countries frequenting the list of most anti women maps. Historically do not look at how christians have been treating women as well.
She’s fearless and relentless… I really hope nothing happens to her.
“The Taliban declined to attend or comment.”
Well yeah, they don’t think a person was talking.
Really how is this news? The Taliban don’t think woman are people, and water is wet.
We armed the wrong sex in Afghanistan…
She can change taliban to Islam at large. Other Arab countries would be doing it to if they thought they could get away with it.
Didn’t tell on yourself until the second sentence this time, well done
It’s not “Islam at large”, look at Iran pre-revolution, or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. They had a multitude of problems, but Islamic fundamentalism wasn’t one of them.
Just like christian nations: the worse educated and poorer the more abusive sky dictator trumps love for fellow human.
You don’t even need to leave Afghanistan. Afghanistan before the Soviets invaded was a very different place.
www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/asia/gallery/…/index.html
You think the Taliban and Pakistan and Afghanistan are… Arab? Why don’t you believe that they are Pashtuns?
Hey according to some that’s okay, because at least they know what a woman is:
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That’s okay I’m sure her fellow “women’s rights” defenders wouldn’t do something awful like make fun of Malala’s experiences:
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Ofcourse JK Rowling likes that first tweet. What a vile piece of excrement
J.K. Rowling invented “fragile femininity.”
She loses her shit any time anyone tries to broaden or complexity the narrow little definition she is stuck on. She just can’t handle it. A woman has to mean exactly what she says it does, or her femininity is under attack. Such an asshole.
You seem like person who can handle it. What’s a woman then?
Woman is a gender identity which is a socially constructed notion. Whether you’re a trans woman or a midwestern blonde beauty queen, it’s just as much of a made-up complex. It can and does have different meanings in different cultures and contexts. It is distinct from any clinical criteria such as genitalia, chromosomes, etc - it has never been able to be mapped to any of those cleanly so I don’t try. You have the genitalia you have, which is none of my concern. You present yourself as a woman, then that’s how I’m going to take you.
Because I’m pretty open minded I am willing to support multiple answers to this question as valid. However tolerance comes into a conundrum when it comes to tolerating intolerance. I tend to resolve this by not tolerating intolerance, hence my disgust for JKR. If you want to attend the party you have to agree to have fun with everyone there. If you’re going to object to some guests being present, fine, and you can leave. That’s my policy in my house, and that’s my policy for the bigger picture too.
Same argument could said about Race then, it’s also a “social construct notion” right?
100%.
People have different hair and skins colors and skull shapes and hair types and they may share some or many or none or one of these genes with this person and these other genes with that person.
But the idea that there are these huge groups of people who are some kind of “species” is ridiculous and unsupported. People club together with others of their skin color because families share more genes and everyone has fear of The Other.
That’s it. “White” for example is the most fake bullshit concept in history. I’m the son of an Arab but he happens to have blue eyes so I pass as “white.” Italians in the US used to be considered some kind of dark skin other but then over time they magically became “white.” At some points in some places, Japanese were considered “white” but Chinese were not. You might think someone is “white” but then you find out they’re Jewish and you scratch your head and say “huh… are Jews ‘white?’” And you don’t actually know.
Because it’s totally fucking made up. People will dress it up as “western civilization” or whatever the fuck but it’s entirely invented. It has a very real effect, mind you, but there’s no actual there there. Entirely a mirage. There is more genetic diversity in Africa than the rest of the world combined many times over.
Then would be okay for a “white” skin person to claim that they’re “Black” and say the N-word etc right?
It’s a social taboo for a person to try to “pass” as another race and fail. It’s common for people to have a mismatch between their personal identifying race and what others assign to them. Passing as white, for example, was always historically fraught. It could often lead to ostracization from all sides. The same is true of trying to pass as black. There’s a similar issue with trying to pass as another class (another social construct). It’s not fundamentally immoral to violate social constructs though.
There’s very few labels for groups of people that aren’t social constructs. Ethnicity is also a social construct, for example, and it’s quite different from the nebulous concept of race.
Plural of 'woman’.
Source:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/women
Thanks, I do that a lot being dyslexic and not native english speaker
Jfc people are gross
Headline/statement improvement note for your online discussing:
“Taliban do not understand that women are human”, or “Taliban continue to refuse to acknowledge that women are human”.
Don’t imply a possibility of correctness that isn’t there.
Rule 1 in this community includes, “title must match the article headline.” OP did as we request.
What do hamas think of women?
Is this supposed to be some gotcha that justifies Israel’s genocide? Because what does Israel think of all of the women they are killing? And in Syria as well.
No, but there’s nuance. Hamas is not worth supporting under any circumstance. I believe the Arabs and Muslims in Gaza and the West Bank should be able to live peacefully with all non Arabs and non Muslims in the region. Hamas does not want that. Hamas does not want peace with non Muslims, especially Jews.
Can you point to any of the Hamas supporters on Lemmy? I have yet to meet one.
I don’t know, all I am saying is I do not support Hamas. You brought up Israel. Not sure why. I say look to the people in Kurdistan and Rojava. Those are governments who know how to help their people and protect Muslims and Jews and Christians and all other creeds. Jihadists Islamists do not believe in peace among nations and people.
I’m an anarchist so I don’t care for the Israeli state or Palestinian state. States are inherently evil. We can see evidence of that on October 7th and beyond. Heck look at all of those intifadas and wars in the decades before October 7. Thus, look to Rojava.
You don’t know why I brought up Israel when you brought up Hamas? Because they’re fighting each other right now and Israel is using it as an excuse to cause a genocide which has done far more harm to Palestinian women than Hamas could have ever hoped to have done.
Why did you bring up Hamas? And if you’re going to say, “because they’re Muslims,” why those Muslims?
Because Hamas wants to bring about a state that wants to genocide the Jews. Do you think they love the Jewish people?
That has nothing to do with the subject of this article whatsoever, which is about how the Taliban do not see women as human.
So how is that relevant?
Fair enough.
Also, as an anarchist, yours was a shit take.
I do not support Hamas. I support the people in Gaza who want peace with all people in the region like the Kurds do. Anyone in Gaza who wants to establish a region like Rojava or anything that resembles Kurdistan then I support them. They are not violent. Hamas is violent and not worthy of supporting. The PKK has problems, and they are easily the worst aspect of Rojava. They are communists. Hamas are ethno-nationalists .
It was a shit take because we arent talking about Israel, you raised a non sequitur.
Yeah the other commenter mentioned that above and I don’t disagree, fair point.
Look at the other replies here, I posted sections of Hamas’ 2017 peace document which explicitly states their right to jihad and I got “yeah, jihad is fine” from someone. People defend Hamas here.
What you got was a definition of jihad you disagree with. That is not the same thing.
Jihad means “struggle” in Arabic. That has a broad range of interpretations. You deciding it must mean violence and only violence is the issue here.
I know what it means, I understand it means to struggle. They use it in a violent context, it is not misinterpreted.
Please do demonstrate that, because the images you shared talk about armed resistance, which means that if they get attacked, they’re going to fight back. That’s as close as it gets to what you’re saying.
Yes, and they claim the right to do what they did to innocent people. They are innocent , as much as my neighbors in America are innocent, even though they are from all races and nationalities, they still are occupying First Nation land as defended by American colonizers and upholded by colonial capitalism. My neighbors are colonizers as much as I am, a half Filipino. My mom is a colonizer and is full blooded Filipino. She, and all of my neighbors deserves anything she gets if First Nation people wanted America back the same way Hamas wanted Palestine back for the Palestinians?
I do not disagree that I would not at all be surprised if First Nation people were so fucking hateful towards Americans, but would I defend that act? I couldn’t, I love my neighbors. They are beautiful Muslims, Christians, black, Mexican, white, old, young, etc. What Hamas does to innocent people like them, I just can’t do it. There has to be other ways.
You are changing the subject. You were talking about jihad within the context of the images you pasted. They do not talk about jihad in the context of violent resistance.
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Here they reject peace deals.
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Hamas decided peace was not acceptable by rejecting these accords.
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They retain the right to use jihad to establish the following state (note the lack of Judaism mentioned anywhere in this).
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Yes, I read it. Perhaps you can quote the part of it that uses the word jihad.
Made it clearer for ya
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Very good. It says “resistance and jihad.” Meaning they are talking about two different things.
Similarly, Tolstoy’s War and Peace isn’t just about a war.
Okay, but this is defending Hamas Jihad against anyone they deem a colonizer. They lay exactly who is an oppressor and what territory they claim to resist and jihad in the liberation of the oppressed Muslims, Christians, and Jews from Israeli colonial Zionistic occupation (all people in all of Israel and Palestine are considered Palestinians to Hamas).
Every person who recognizes the borders of Israel is killable to Hamas.
Am I misinterpreting their statements?
I literally just showed you that ‘jihad’ in this context is separate from any call for armed resistance and you’re still acting like it’s the same thing. So I’m really thinking you’re a troll at this point.
There’s plenty to condemn Hamas for without making stuff up. Hamas has been endorsed a two state solution for 20 years now and said they don’t have anything against Jews, their beef is with Zionists stealing more of their land daily. And it’s not like Netanyahu has don’t much better; his party’s charter says a one state solution from the river to the sea and Netanyahu is unable to name a single Palestinian he likes even though the anti-Hamas factions have offered to work with him and he refuses.
I’d love any source on Hamas’ peaceful intentions towards the Jewish people
Literally their charter.
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Yeah what do you find objectionable in this? Nowhere does it deny the right of Palestine's non-Palestinian Arab residents to stay there.
Their self-claimed right to religious jihad? The spreading of an Islamic ethnic state? Nothing wrong the the spread of Islam or the Arabic ethnicity, but i disagree on violent means (jihad and by establishing a state). Do you?
Their end goal is to jihad Israel until they are gone, wiped off the earth. We’ll just assume the Jews will be safe, I guess? I don’t like the state of Israel, but I don’t want the world to lose the Jewish people, and I don’t trust Hamas to be the protector of so many Jews. I have seen zero evidence that Hamas will be willing to risk their lives to protect and save the lives of innocent Jewish people. Again, I just want a better option than Hamas for the people of Gaza and the West Bank. I want a better option for the people of Israel/Judea too, than their current state.
Their right to resist colonial oppression, yes.
How else do you want them to obtain human rights? Because anyone paying attention can tell that Israel will not give them any unless forced to. The Palestinian nonviolent resistance project ended up as the monstrosity known as the Palestinian Authority. Israel actively killed the only major peaceful resistance group in Palestine; what do you expect Palestinians to do?
Yes, and? Nelson Mandela's ANC fought until the Apartheid was wiped off the face off the Earth too.
I mean I guess yeah. How that'll work out will depend on what form the conclusion of this conflict takes, but colonial peoples do tend to face this problem when their rule ends.
Okay and? Even if the genocide you're assuming will happen was likely (which it isn't), why is the hypothetical genocide of Jews more important than the real, ongoing genocide of Palestinians?
If First Nations Americas started an intifada like on oct 7 against my neighbors, would you disagree with their strategy and disavow the people who claimed responsibility, or would you defend them?
You haven't answered my question: What do you expect Palestinians to do?
First Oct 7th wasn't an Intifada, but that aside: Native Americans got human rights via the Civil Rights Act; they don't live in Apartheid and they aren't being expelled from their lands. I sure wouldn't blame them for rioting though.
Neither would I. I wouldn’t blame them for wanting their land back either with violence. I just would never condone that level of violence no matter the reason, not on innocent life, even innocent colonizers like my neighbors are.
Oh that's what you're talking about. You should say that sooner. Anyway you should note that October 7th had clear military goals (66% of Israeli casualties were combatants); nobody here is supporting the actual killing civilians part. Hell, I don't think there are any straight up Hamas supporters here specifically because they're too willy nilly about killing civilians (and because of the whole theocratic dictatorship thing).
Hamas rejected peace treaties. Dismissed them as racist. I don’t disagree and wouldn’t disagree with First Nations people saying and doing the exact same thing by rejecting the peace treaties. If First Nation people did what Hamas did and rejected the peace treaties, would you agree with them, then? If peace treaties can be determined null and void after the fact, why would you be against an Oct 7 style attack by a very rightful and angry First Nations group? Again, I say this because this is how I rack with my ideology. I believe in the right of free people and would even understand legitimately the idea behind it. I just cannot and will not condone the attack. I am incapable of condoning it. I cannot and will not condone any group of human beings who takes responsibility for what happened on Oct 7. I don’t support Israel, it just makes it impossible for me to support Hamas, it was inexcusable. I cannot imagine that happening to my neighbors. I love my neighbors. Those were happy people who got slaughtered for wanting a happy life. My neighbors immigrated here, I’m weeping for the day Trump is deporting them, but some people are happy. My neighbors are also born and raised here, I’d weep for the day anyone decided they were colonizers. It doesn’t make it right.
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Well then you’re in luck, because more Jews live outside of Israel than live in it. Myself being one of them. Fuck Israel, it doesn’t represent me and suggesting it does is, frankly, bigoted.
Israel is not the Jewish State even if it wants to say it is. That claim benefits two groups:
And meanwhile, that sentiment increases antisemitism, it doesn’t reduce it. Israel makes the world less safe for me and my family. It does not protect me. It never has, it never will.
Is Israel Zionist then? If it is Zionist, it would be a Jewish state. Hamas claims it is Zionist. They claim they are a Jewish government, and because their government is Jewish, it should be destroyed. They changed their tune from “the Jews must be eliminated” to “the Jewish state must be eliminated” in 2017. Are they a Jewish state as Hamas claims, or are they not as you claim?
I’m sorry, are you under the offensively ridiculous impression that Zionism is some sort of inherent part of a Jewish identity? Because it absolutely is not.
Yes they are Zionists, meaning they claim Israel is the Jewish State. So what? They can claim whatever they want. America claims it’s the Land of the Free and it has the world’s highest incarceration rate.
Also, and this may come as a shock to you, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither democratic nor a republic. Apparently governments say things about themselves that aren’t actually true. Who’da thunk?
I’m simply asking who is right: Hamas or you? You said Israel is not a Jewish state, Hamas says it is. Hamas acknowledges and agrees that it is a Jewish state, but your comment said it was not at all. I am just confused on who to believe, I want to assume both of you are right but that can’t be true from how I’m seeing it?
You are not answering any of my questions and yet you keep expecting me to answer yours. And yours seem to be implying that I somehow support Hamas, something I think I’ve already been pretty clear about not doing. So why would I care how Hamas defines Israel?
I have been trying to explain it to you more tactfully, but I will be blunt: you are being a bigot against Jews. Worse, you are being a condescending bigot against us by think you speak on our behalf.
As a Jew, I’m fucking sick of that shit.
And as a moderator, I’m telling you this stops now.
My goodness I’m literally autistic and I am legitimately fucking confused because I am just wondering if Israel is legitimately secular or not because I literally don’t have your perspective and you are, unfortunately, confusing my autistic communication style for bigotry. You see how I’m as confused as you are, no? I’m literally asking questions without assuming anything. I am wondering honestly holy shit. I do not know if Israel is legitimately Jewish or secular, I assume it’s secular this entire time and just was very Jewish, much like the US not not literally a Christian nation.
And I am LITERALLY telling you that it is LITERALLY not “The Jewish State” because LITERALLY more Jews LITERALLY do not LITERALLY live in Israel than LITERALLY live in Israel no matter what their government or Hamas LITERALLY say.
If next week, Mexico declared itself as “The Christian State,” would you just accept that? That it’s the nation for Christians and nowhere else? I would fucking hope not.
I am a Jew.
I am not Israeli.
I never want to be Israeli.
I don’t even want to set foot in the fucking country.
SO STOP ASSOCIATING ME WITH THEM.
That should be all you need to LITERALLY know.
Alright, I’ll agree that Israel is not the Jewish state. My understanding of “Zionism” is that it attempts to establish one, though, is that true? As in, Israel does want to be a Jewish ethnostate? We agree it is not representative of all Jews, 100% agreement there. It may still want that, no? I’m not sure what a Jewish state even is, I’m not at all familiar with the customs. So is Israel actually wanting to be Jewish in its government (again, I don’t know it well), or is that just a claim that Hamas is saying? I don’t actually associate Israel with Jewish sentiment mind you, never have never will. I’m just confused as to what even is the Zionism that Hamas hates
You’ve LITERALLY been doing that this entire time. For example-
No it would not. It would be a Zionist state.
This is the last time you get to be told Zionism and Judaism are in no way the same thing.
I have been more than lenient with you and I am very tired of you expecting the JEW WHO IS NOT AN ISRAELI to explain what ISRAEL and HAMAS thinks as if I have some sort inside knowledge… AS IF I WERE A FUCKING ISRAELI.
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I’m so confused… I’m just trying to understand what Zionism is here… it’s a colonial project to bring about a Jewish state according to Wikipedia. I understand, could be lying. I have in Israeli friend and a Turkish friend I’ll get their opinion on, but from what I am getting is that you disagree with the claim of the wiki article?
They do, though. Setting aside the fact that there are Christians living peacefully in Gaza, Hamas updated their charter in I think 2017 to reflect that. It has always been Israel rejecting peace deals, not Hamas.
What does Israel think of all the women they raped and killed then? And what does it think of children too, since they killed more children then any other country in 2024?
Gtfo with your Zionist talking points
Where is my love for the Israeli state? I believe all peaceful people should be allowed to live, and there are lots of peaceful people in Gaza and the West Bank and Israel/Judea whatever you want to call the place. Nationalists over there are not peaceful.
Are you aware that Hamas is the only reason people in Palestine have water and electricity?
I’ll say it again, you’re just using Zionist talking points. And it takes a special kind of entitled person to tell a group of people being ethnically cleansed how they should act and how they should be “mOrE pEacEfUl” while being the victims of genocide
I think the people of Palestine should implement a state like Kurdistan and abandon their ties with Hamas. I support Hamas as much as I support any government who kills innocents in the name of jihad or any other “struggle”. Same with the Israeli government. I support them as much as I support Hamas. I support the people of Judea/Israel/whatever you want to call that hunk of land more than I support any of their governments.
My goodness, I’m just trying to have a level head here? I have never supported Hamas, before or after October 7th. I very much remember their suicide bombings of busses. Do I excuse the IRA during the troubles? No. Fuck the IRA, but I don’t disagree with their plight. I agree that the Irish people deserve their land. Same with the people in Gaza and the West Bank. I hate the British empire as much as I hate the Israeli state. I hate Hamas as much as I hate the IRA.
I’ll post my (edited) comment again for all to see since the mods thought it was too uncivil in its previous version.
And how exactly are they supposed to do any of that while being bombed? Or while Israel doesn’t allow them to leave their internment areas? Or while dismissing any ceasefire proposal? What you’re saying is impossible because Israel doesn’t want it to happen. And I find gross how in all of this you keep putting the blame on Hamas instead of Israel, the one with the money, power and influence in all of this
So to you being the victims of a genocide is just another “struggle”. Thanks for making clear to us the kind of person you are. You’re definitely not the victim of Zionist propaganda /s. But sarcasm aside, I’ll stop interacting with you now. There is only so much victim-blaming I can stomach in a day
A lot better than the Taliban, that's for sure. The Taliban are a whole thing on their own when it comes to women's rights.
Fair enough. Don’t disagree on the taliban.
It’s so telling that in all your replies, you keep going back to how “Hamas is evil” while casually glossing over Israel’s role in this genocide and their constant crimes against humanity.
Exploding buses from Hamas? No no no, inhuman. IDF forces dressing up as healthcare workers to go around unnoticed? Or Israel using civilians as human shields? bUt wHaT aBoUt hAmAs!?
It’s also telling that some 20 days ago, in another post, you wrote
So you do understand violence as a legitimate method of protest/resistance. But you don’t understand it for Hamas or any other Muslim groups. Interesting…
You Zionist trolls are all the same
Luigi killed an oppressor. Teenagers and old ladies that Hamas targets in their atracks are not oppressors. I’m not unaware of Israel, but Hamas does use human shields. This is a fact. Hamas cannot ever do this. It is inhumane. It shreds them of innocence. It makes removing Hamas impossible without innocent loss, and I hear you on wanting thay. If oct 7 resulted in only oligarchs and military leaders and politicians being targeted I’d be having a different discussion. If any intifada by Hamas had desired peace instead of total war, we’d have a different discussion. Hamas is as evil as Israel is, I agree.
So you’re really not even going to try anything else but “bUt hAmAs” in your replies, eh?
So did Hamas. But you keep denying them the same benefit of the doubt you give to this guy. I guess to you all those dead Palestinian people across almost 80+ years of occupation are not entitled to the same level of violence as a random guy who grew up with a wealthy family. You are really showing your true self with this replies.
They are called casualties. And they are not directly oppressors, but they are without a doubt settlers of a colonial movement. They are in the line of fire because they went into a land that was not theirs.
See my previous comment about your inability to reply without whatabout your way back to Hamas.
There we are. The classic Zionist propaganda coming through.
It is not and it will never be a total war. A war would require at least 2 armies fighting against each other. This is a brutal and one sided genocide carried out by Israel. Period.
I don’t. The level of actions carried out by those 2 entities are not even remotely close. You just value some lives more than others and are trying your very best to condemn people that have been forced to endure a brutal ethnic cleansing campaing for the past 80+ years.
I’ve seen your other replies as well. You are free to reply to me, but I’ve seen and said everything I needed to say to such trolly (read Zionist) behaviors
I’m sorry, but Hamas is not worth defending. I want peace for Gazans and everyone over there. I hate that Jews were given the fucking shaft because of Britain and the Ottoman Empire. There’s just too much history here to even call this simply Zionism, it is too reductionist.
If Hamas dedicated themselves to disarming after and allowing all people to exist as a separate state from Islam, I’m all for it. Go Hamas if that’s what they want. Hell yeah, bring peace to your people, the Jews, the Christians, the atheists, etc. Allow them to vote in your society, allow them all to participate in government and practice their faith openly and without persecution.
They do not want this. They want an Islamic state guided by Islamic faith to rule over the land of Judea/Israel/whatever. I do not desire this.
They actually do. And they have said so multiple times.
Oh wow, so now you’re just going full Islamophobic again, uh? Let me know when you have a reply based on reality and not scary ideas you pulled out of thin air to further victimize the people enduring a genocide
Look at any of my other comments man, you will absolutely see I love my Muslim brothers and sisters. I even say I am okay with the spread of Islam and the Arab ethnicity, I just don’t support it via state or violent means (I don’t support in theocracy or ethnostates).
I am against nationalists of all religions and political ideologies. Hamas is not exempt from this.
Religious bigots in power, what to expect?
Good, we see Taliban as demons wearing human skin since time immemorial.
You mean except for when you guys were training and arming them right?
Who is “you guys” and when did this arming and training happen?
Not because I doubt it happened, but because it’s happened enough times with enough people that you need to be specific…
It’s funny how every country is responsible for their actions, except America, cause you guys love to use the shaggy “it wasn’t me” defense towards every atrocity. “It want me, it was that American over there!”
I think Rambo 3 was the one in Afghanistan, where Rambo joins the Taliban against the Russians, which was written that way to reflect the reality of Americans supporting and training the mujahideen of Afghanistan to oppose Russia. Those mujahideen are what turned into the taliban. America has a great history of training their future enemies
The two people you are replying to probably aren’t Americans. One posts in a Philippines com and the other from a .uk domain.
That’s why I was asking which time.
That Taliban rose up because the country was abandoned by the US after helping them see off the Soviet Union (and indeed being one of the catalysts that caused the Soviet Union to collapse). They were left with no infrastructure, and the Taliban stepped in with all the religious crazies in tow. And yeah, a lot of them were the mujahideen who were armed and trained by the US. They’re soldiers after all, and new regimes always need soldiers…
The Russians later gave them some equipment and funding to fight the US when they later invaded, but nowhere near enough to actually fight back. It was going to take more than a couple of rocket launchers for that.
Nobody ever gave a shit about the people there. Not the Taliban, not the US and not the Russians. Nobody is learning from it. You’ve got the exact same shit right now in Syria. They were rebels, then they were ISIS and Al-Qaeda, now they’re rebels again. All based on whether or not they’re attacking the old enemy.
Do you think the person you’re replying to is somehow responsible for Taliban being in power?
Sometimes the smartest person in the room is a woman. By refusing to educated women, they are limiting the intellectual growth and capabilities of their own culture. Cultures with fair, balanced rules, and systems of living, for everyone regardless of race, gender, or any other thing people imagine matters, will have a stronger society in almost all aspects from that alone. Because most of the things people imagine matter. Don’t. In fact, what matters, is the actual intellectual capabilities of the individual, not how you or anyone else perceives them.
In fairness it’s the Taliban. They’re not exactly renowned for being interested in intellectual growth.
I’m sure that women don’t see the taliban as being human either. Wonder which one of the two will survive the other’s inevitable extinction.
Not many do.
Now what?
She isn’t wrong to say this.
She isn’t wrong. Imagine not seeing half of the population as human, even though they carried you and everyone who has ever been born in the womb for 9 months and gave birth to you.
I live in the United States. I don’t have to imagine, I can see it up close.
Imagine comparing the situation in the united States, where women have favorable hiring and scholarship status, to the Taliban state where women are literally property and not allowed to get a job or education under threat of death. Like actual death, not someone online telling you something rude.
We just elected in a man and party that want us to be the Christian version of the taliban.
There’s also many areas where women are treated the same in the USA.
What part of the USA disallows women the right to go to high school or to speak in public?
I hate the direction the U.S. is going as much as any sane person but it’s a disservice to everyone to say that women in Afghanistan and women in the U.S. are treated the same.
Nah fam. I’m a woman living in Texas and I’ll take fighting for abortion rights and closing the wage gap here in the US over living in Afghanistan any day of the week.
Our situations are not even close, and I think you know that.
Literally can’t be more wrong
JFC can you guys stop acting like your country is the worst place to ever exist? The situation for American women is nowhere as bad as it is for Afgan women. (yet)
JFC you don’t even live in the U.S. and you want to tell me that the type of people who would be happy to have American women in the same situation as Afghan women don’t exist here?
they’re just getting into the government, be patient
If the US had not invaded Afghanistan and done such a shitjob the Taliban would have been overthrown by now. The Taliban was highly unpopular in 2001, but thanks to the US fucking everything up, they regained more land than they had otherwise by 2017 or so.
But it was very profitable for weapons dealers so that makes everything OK.
Nothing’s certain with alternate scenarios. Perhaps Taliban would have eventually fallen, perhaps not. In the meanwhile, countless people will suffer under those goat fuckers.
Fuck’s sake, the Northern Alliance was hard-pressed in 2001.
I would like to point out while she may be right about this, she has been very silent on whats going on in Palestinian and when she was called out on it she released a vague PR statement. She is compromised.
This account frequently defends Israel for those out of the loop.
Suggesting that Muslim men love to fuck camels is definitely not perpetuating any racist stereotypes at all.
Something about the “not human” phrasing is bothering me. I get what they’re trying to convey and I don’t dispute it, but it also feels inaccurate in a way that might lead us to miss important aspects of the situation.
I’m sure if you asked an Afghan man how many people live in his home, he’d include women and children in his answer. So I don’t think they literally see women as a separate species.
My gut feeling is more like Afghan men don’t generally believe in the concept of human rights, as opposed to separate sets of rights for men and women. Hell, they may not even believe in the Western concept of rights at all, and may think only in terms of things like religious obligations and cultural norms.
I wonder if there’s a different phrasing we could use that has the same emotional impact but doesn’t suggest questionable conclusions about the world view of Afghans.
I’m not so sure. I have zero basis to think it’s one way or another, but given all the oniony-but-actually-pure-facts headlines of these recent… months? I’m definitely not certain of it.
you shouldn’t base your thinking on western news which generally have an incentive to exaggerate everything related to Afghanistan and taliban.
there’s a recent video from a non-muslim youtuber called Arab going to the taliban and vlogging his experience, from what I saw in his video the taliban aren’t as bad as the headlines suggest, I don’t really like the guy but the videos are good.
the fact that they don’t give girls the same rights as boys are facts, but there’s more to it than just “girl less than boy” as the media portrays it, you need to understand the culture more before coming to conclusions like that the afghans think of women as subhuman.
The dichotomy of the west running a literal concentration camp in Gaza and then taking the moral high ground on Afghanistan as if that is where human life is not valued is hillarious.
The f’n MAGAts and the Taliban share a lot in common.
Capitalists are more efficient than both.
They don’t see almost anyone as human.
Haha I’m going to assume the comment wasn’t giving the Taliban or Ya’ll-qaeda a pass with a whataboutism.
But it’s okay you can drop the “almost”. To them, humans are just another speculative resource that responds to market manipulation! XD
capitalism is what broke up gender norms; if a woman or a man presses a button for 8 hours what does a capitalist care?
There’s a reason they call 'em “Ya’ll-Qaeda” lol
The word “chattel” sometimes gets used in conversations like this one, and I think we should stop doing that. It’s a confusing word that most people don’t understand, and is often confused with “cattle” ie cows. I mean just look at this definition:
TBH I think “livestock” is a better word all around. It means live animal property, which is accurate. People know what it means. And it has the right negative connotations, too: associating human beings with pigs and chickens, as if they’re on the same level.