Surprise! The Taliban is Taking Away Women’s Rights!

As you read this article, think about a few things.  

#1-Islam is a satanic mess that makes trouble everywhere it goes

#2-what exactly does this author believe are “fundamental rights” of women?

#3-who does she think grants those fundamental rights to women?

#4-who does she think should enforce those rights for the women of Afghanistan?

In reality, women have NO WAY of enforcing whatever rights they believe they should have.  First off they would need the men of their society to allow them certain rights (vote, drive, get jobs, wear certain clothes, speak in public).  Next they would need men in their society to enforce those rights should another group of men stand in their way.  And finally, if the local police-men won’t enforce what the women want then they need an “international community” to step in…which means men with guns from somewhere else who are stronger than their men with guns.

Until Jesus returns and lifts the curse for 1000 years, this is the way things are.  

Afghanistan was a Muslim mess before America got there following 9/11.  Men with guns went there from America and tried to change things, but now that they’ve left, the women are going to be forced back into the same Muslim mess that existed before, and that includes domination by men.

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The situation of women and girls under the Taliban controlled Afghanistan is unparalleled in the world in terms of its severity and systematic deprivation of their fundamental rights. Last month, the oppression reached an unprecedented low when dozens of laws restricting women's rights were formalized and published, including forbidding women from showing their bare faces and banning women's voices in public.

But how did we get here? A combination of miscalculations from the West have emboldened the Taliban. But it's not too late for the international community to reverse course and prevent the further oppression of the women of Afghanistan.

In August 2021, the Taliban returned to power with a promise to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms. However, immediately after seizing power, the Taliban dismantled Afghanistan's national laws, dissolved the AIHRC and dissolved the MoWA. Through more than 150 decrees and edicts, the Taliban systematically banned or limited women's rights to education, work, freedom of expression, freedom of movement and assembly, and severely limiting their access to health care and justice. Similar to their first time in power in the 1990s, the Taliban also resumed and reintroduced horrific measures such as public stoning of women to death and flogging.

The Taliban is entrenching its institutionalized oppression of women with complete impunity. On Aug. 21, 2024, through the Ministry of Justice's Official Gazette, the Taliban issued a new series of extremely restrictive measures on women called "The Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law". Article 13 of the law states that if for urgent matters a woman must leave her home, she is required to cover her entire body, including their face, and that women's voices should be concealed in public.

But laws without enforcement have no teeth. So, to institutionalize their systematic oppression of women and animate their written edicts, the Taliban has re-introduced the Ministry of Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice. The feared ministry has arbitrarily arrested detained, tortured, publicly flogged, stoned, and killed women for not following the Taliban's dress code or protesting for their rights. The Taliban has created a system of governance that is deliberately built to systematically oppress and subjugate the women of Afghanistan and to deprive them of their livelihoods and identity. The situation of women in Afghanistan parallels the apartheid regime in South Africa during 1948 to 1994—institutionalized, systematic oppression and domination. The women in Afghanistan call their experience under the Taliban gender apartheid.

We need a full set of diplomatic, political and legal tools to address the multifaceted crisis Afghanistan is facing under Taliban rule. To move forward, the people of Afghanistan need long-term sustainable policy and political support from the international community.

 https://www.newsweek.com/taliban-trying-silence-women-we-cannot-stand-silent-opinion-1953707