#the women of Afghanistan

[idontmindittakestime]

I go back now and then to that book a thousand splendid suns

[ahriana]

Afghan Miku 💖

[kafkaesqueer]

The Handmaid's Tale is not a dystopian fiction, it's a reality for women in Afghanistan:

[that-rad-jewish-girl]

If you ever wondered if the pro-Palestine movement was a trend, look up the protests yesterday against the Taliban.

Oh wait, there were no protests.

The Taliban has essentially outlawed women’s existence. You cannot be heard at all, nor can any part of your skin be seen. This is actually more strict than Iran, where we saw the mass protests following the death of Mahsa Amini.

Mahsa Amini went viral on social media, so there were some protests for that. However, most protests overseas (not in Iran) had ended by spring of 2023. They didn’t end due to policy change in Iran. Women are still being persecuted there. It’s just no longer trendy to protest the Iranian government, even while the American government is helping fund the Ayatollah (and the Taliban, by the way).

We even saw the disqualification of an Olympic athlete for wearing a cape that said “Free Afghan Women”. I was hoping the movement might get started after that. I know the whole world saw her - surely this will be the start. How wrong I was.

It seems people only care when something goes viral on social media. Protests for change are only for viral movements.

[meirimerens]

Yumna Al-Arashi, Axis of Evil (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq), 2020

in Leica Fotografie International (LFI) magazine:

"This photograph was made for my first European solo show in Berlin, in the gallery Anahita Contemporary. It's a self-portrait alongside Anahita Sadighi, Moshtari Hilal and Susu AbdulMajid. We are respectively from Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite our different roots I noticed that we all share a similar background, having grown up in Western nations that often vilify the places our families are from. I also noticed the strong profiles of each of our faces. So I decided to create this portrait with the title Axis of Evil – a play on the term so frequently used to describe our home countries when we were growing up. It also embraces the beauty of our distinctive noses, which are often treated as ugly, something to be changed. I wanted to embrace these qualities of ours in this image, creating something powerful, defiant."

[anyahita]

If your feminism doesn't include Iranian and Afghan women, then you're not a feminist.

If your feminism doesn't include women suffering in highly patriarchial societies, then you're not a feminist.

If your feminism doesn't include honour killing victims, then you're not a feminist.

If your feminism doesn't include women suffering at the hands of a zealot religious ideology, then you're not a feminist.

If you support women who want to wear the hijab, but don't support women who don't want to wear it, then you're a morally corrupted person.

[without-ado]

Kimia Yousofi of Afghanistan flips her bib after competing in the women's 100m preliminary round. Yousofi finished last but sent a message just by stepping on to the track, advocating for women in Afghanistan after fleeing the country to chase her Olympic dream, revealing a sign that read "education," "sport" and "our rights.".

REUTERS/Alina Smutko l SAINT-DENIS, France l Paris 2024

[curtwilde]

Taliban has announced that women in Afghanistan will be stoned to death in public for adultery.

The Afghan Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, has issued a disturbing proclamation, vowing to implement brutal punishments against women in public. In a chilling voice message broadcasted on state television, Akhundzada directly addressed Western officials, dismissing concerns about violating women’s rights by stoning them to death.

"You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death," Akhundzada stated. "But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public," he declared, marking his most severe rhetoric since the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021.

These grim statements, purportedly from Akhundzada, who has seldom been seen in public except for a few outdated portraits, emanate from Afghanistan’s state TV, now under Taliban control. Akhundzada is believed to be located in southern Kandahar, the Taliban's stronghold. Despite early assurances of a more moderate regime, the Taliban swiftly reverted to harsh public penalties reminiscent of their previous rule in the late 1990s, including public executions and floggings. The United Nations has vehemently criticised these actions, urging the Taliban to cease such practices.

In his message, Akhundzada asserted that the women's rights advocated by the international community contradicted the Taliban’s strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. Akhundzada emphasised resilience among Taliban fighters, urging them to oppose women's rights persistently. "I told the Mujahedin that we tell the Westerners that we fought against you for 20 years and we will fight 20 and even more years against you," he stated.

His remarks have sparked outrage among Afghans, with many calling for increased international pressure on the Taliban.

"The money that they receive from the international community as humanitarian aid is just feeding them against women," lamented Tala, a former civil servant from Kabul.

"As a woman, I don’t feel safe and secure in Afghanistan. Each morning starts with a barrage of notices and orders imposing restrictions and stringent rules on women, stripping away even the smallest joys and extinguishing hope for a brighter future," she added.

"We, the women, are living in prison," Tala emphasised, "And the Taliban are making it smaller for us every passing day."

Taliban authorities have also barred 330,000 girls from returning to secondary school for the third consecutive year. University doors were closed to women in December 2022 and participation in the workforce is heavily restricted.

[coochiequeens]

Ladies don't travel to another country with a man if your legal status is uncertain. If you do hold onto your passport and make sure your ticket isn't a one way.

Exit trafficking: Western Sydney man abandons his wife overseas after she fell out with his mum

Western Sydney man convicted over 'exit trafficking'

He took his wife abroad, but only he had a return ticket 

READ MORE: Human trafficking gang that operated a string of brothels jailed

By PADRAIG COLLINS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

PUBLISHED: 06:40 EDT, 27 June 2024 

A western Sydney man who abandoned his wife overseas after she fell out with his mother has been convicted over what is known as 'exit trafficking'. 

It is a type of modern slavery where women are tricked or coerced into leaving a country, in this case Australia, and prevented from returning.

The 44-year-old man, who lives in Merrylands in Sydney's south-west, took his wife on 'a charity mission' to their home country of Afghanistan in January 2018, police said.

But the man, known as AR to protect his family, only had a return ticket for himself. His wife did not realise that her ticket was one-way to Afghanistan. 

The day after he returned to Australia, AR wrote to the Department of Home Affairs, cancelling the sponsorship of his wife's visa, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

He did so because his mum didn't like his wife, and it resulted in the woman he had been married to for four years being stranded overseas.

The woman's relatives helped get her back to Australia, where she reported her husband to the police.  

AR's conviction last Friday was the third such exit trafficking conviction in Australia.

He was sentenced to two years jail with 12 months of it to be served in the community on a good behaviour bond.

Human rights activist Helena Hassani said there has been an increase in such oppression of women, often in migrant communities, in Australia.

While there are many cases involving men from Afghan and other migrant communities taking their wives abroad and leaving them there, she said there are also many cases where 'Aussie men marry women from Asia, bring them here, but marry them into servitude, or treat them like sex workers'.

Many women, such as AR's wife, are only in Australia on partner visas, leaving them reliant on their husband's sponsorship to stay in the country.

Some women in these communities are discouraged from using money, getting an education or working outside the home because the men want a 'servant'.

'It's a cultural practice where the less educated women are, the happier men are, because then no one is challenging them, no one is confronting them, and they just live the way they want to live,' Ms Hassani told the publication.

Acting Detective Sergeant Sarah Manning of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said exit trafficking often goes unreported.

No one has the right to 'cancel' another person's visa, including the visa sponsor,' she said. 

'This type of behaviour is a Commonwealth offence and carries a potential 12-year jail term.'

The first exit-trafficking conviction was in 2021, when a man from Lidcombe in western Sydney threatened to murder a woman unless she boarded a flight to India with her infant child.

The horrific interaction was captured on Sydney Airport's CCTV after the anti-human trafficking group Anti Slavery Australia told the AFP what happened.

Anyone with information about potential modern slavery or trafficking is urged to report it to Australian Federal Police on 131 237.

[she-is-ovarit]

For those of you who haven't heard, Afghanistan passed a new "Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," which places even more restrictions on women.

Under Taliban rule, women and girls are now required to fully cover their heads and bodies and their voices are forbidden in public.

Women and girls are legally forbidden from speaking in public.

They're also prohibited from interacting with non-Muslims, using public transportation by themselves, and looking at any man they either aren't married to or aren't related to.

Child marriage of girls also still continues in Afghanistan, and women and girls still have no right to education.

Seriously, please help spread information about what's happening to women in both Afghanistan and Iran. Women, Life, Freedom.

[majchic]

[djuvlipen]

[radwitchhh]

"Let Afghan women suffer, because we don't need another US invasion in Afghanistan."

This is what leftists and communists especially m@les are saying and thinking following the recent ban of T@lib@n on the whole existence of Afghan women.

It's not surprising because these same people accused girls and women in Afghanistan of being C!A agents, while they were risking their lives studying secretly so that T@lib@n don't put them in jail.

Conservatives and white m3n are happy because that's what they would want to do to women too if they found a chance and are celebrating T@lib@n despite their religious and cultural differences - because misogyny unites all m3n.

This non-fictional Handmaid's Tale will not be limited to Afghan women instead it risks the lives of American and Western women including the ones who have more empathy for brown and M7slim m@les than their female victims.

"Ahhh they just want to show third world in bad light, there's no danger for women there."

This is another idea propagated by leftists. They shut the voices of women in third world and present m3n of color as angels incapable of abusing women, completely overlooking the extreme patriarchal violence perpetrated by moc against women of colour in the third world countries.

"But our priority is to fight US and Z!0n!st I$r@3l, women's rights can be talked afterwards."

And then this "afterwards" never comes, however, we do see liberal leftists and communists immensely accusing women of color of racism for not shutting our mouths over the daily basis brutalities we suffer perpetrated against us by m3n of color.

All the privileged diaspora M7slims living in the Western countries will never want to live under the T@lib@n and Ir@ni@n regimes. They will never choose this barbarism for themselves, they just want women to suffer under these m@les.

Leftists, communists and privileged M7slims are unable to take any criticism against the systemic misogynist religious violence against girl children and women in M7slim countries. They will always put the concerns of every other xyz phobias and cisms before misogyny and patriarchy.

People are going on with their lives like nothing happened but can you imagine that there's a country in this world that bans the whole existence of girl children and women. If this was systemically happening to little boys and m3n, no one would stay silent and the world wouldn't be in this much calm.

We don't see everyone's social media stories, posts and statuses fillled with even a single word of support for Afghan women like we do for "we know what g3n0c!d3". We are seeing selective boycotts for this "g3n0c!d3" but no expression of backing for Afghan women. No protests, no marches, no campaigns, no go-fund-mes, no donations, no mass prayer organizing, nothing at all.

Is this not hatred of women?

[vividdreamer]

dont ever give credit to people for "giving" women rights. dont thank them for returning what shouldn't have been taken in the first place.