For women, journalists, and minorities in Afghanistan in 2022, Biden’s “new and improved Taliban 2.0” looks just like the Taliban 1.0 did back in 2001, before 9/11.
VOA Despite assurances that they would respect human rights of all Afghans, the new Taliban 2.0 government announced a steady stream of polices and regulations that curtailed women’s rights.
Afghan women are largely prohibited from working in jobs outside of teaching and health care while many secondary schools for girls remain closed across the country. The Taliban religious police have told women they cannot travel in public without being accompanied by a male guardian and have ordered taxi drivers to offer a ride only to women who wear a hijab or headscarf.
Taliban authorities are also cracking down on dissent and wide-ranging restrictions on media as well as violence against journalists have led to the closure of nearly 70% of Afghan television and other news outlets.
andrewblackadder says
I am certainly not at all surprised that the Tali Boys just went back to who and what they were before the American invasion as I noticed those Western leaders and Journalist kept repeating that women’s rights will be upheld under the ”new” Taliban however they missed the point when the Tali Boys said…
Women will have full rights UNDER sharia… The Devil is in the details.
Ray Jarman says
After being in Kabul in 2002 soon after the Embassy reopened, I was able to watch the status of women improve. The first time that a few friends and I went to a restaurant, there was a section where women would sit and eat that was separated by curtains from the ceiling to the floor while men were permitted to eat in the comfort of the open breeze that helped keep the place cool. (By the way the ladies were all clad even while eating in full burkas) About four months later women who chose to, ate in the main dining area.
Also, one could watch the ladies who worked in the Embassy take off their burkas as they entered the compound. I asked one of the ladies who worked in the General Services Office what was best thing about working there and she said to be treated with respect was far more than the money, which was far more than any kind of secretarial job in the market. She was also very proficient.
To see this relapse into a medieval cesspool makes me feel very sad.
Linda Rivera says
The UN; Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, George Soros, Obama, Fauci, the Clinton’s, Pelosi, China Biden, and his entire America Hater, WOMAN HATER/CHILD HATER regime will be celebrating their victory with their partners — Taliban terrorist killer savages.
Me says
Biden needs a new jacket … A nice heavy duty one in white that has leather straps and buckles, the type where the arms tie up behind his back
Inspired Infidel says
Joe Biden is the president of the U.S. because he is easy to control. The election was stolen from the American voters.
Shirley Ann says
Is there a big difference between Afghani Men & Women, who hate America? They are the same Cruel Beings, under their Skirts & ROBES, who
Danced in the streets of Muslim Countries, upon the news of 9/11/2001.
gijoe66 says
biden is either too stupid or too arrogant because most people know ” a leopard never changes its spots”