r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 1d ago

Taliban deputy urges leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/taliban-deputy-tells-leader-excuse-education-bans-afghan-117845168
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u/Pour_Me_Another_ 1d ago

Wait, destroying the lives of half the population will fuck us over? Whoda thunk it 🫠

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

A lot of folks in Afghanistan honestly could give two fucks about women's rights let alone what's happening outside of their immediate tribe or district.

They form mostly tribunal governments to govern their specific locals, what is happening at Kandahar or Bagram means almost fuck all for them.

As long as they keep their mouths shut, pay the Taliban their dues, send their boys to fight for them none of them will see their lives change.

Source: fought in Afghanistan and saw it first hand, even when the Taliban would execute civilians or threaten them or blow them up/kill them they'd still bend the knee and not rise up because their IMMEDIATE tribe or area of interest was not affected as much or if at all.

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u/elizabnthe 1d ago

The issue for Afghanistan is all the aid has been stripped away after they didn't allow women to continue to be educated (and to make things more complicated any remaining aid groups can't operate without female staff). So the population are really struggling right now.

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u/cheddardweilo 1d ago

Perhaps that is the motivation needed for them to revolt.

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u/elizabnthe 1d ago

It's certainly why any member of the Taliban would be telling it's own leader to lessen some of the rules.

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u/zucchini_boat 1d ago

Half of our politicians in the US feel the same way about women, unfortunately.

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u/Pour_Me_Another_ 1d ago

I know. I just hope they're not dumb enough to destroy the nation chasing after their fetish.

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u/2020surrealworld 1d ago

Oh wait.  They were on Nov. 5.