Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists

The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said.

Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the Afghan human rights organisation Women’s Window of Hope, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s.

“With this announcement by the Taliban leader, a new chapter of private punishments has begun and Afghan women are experiencing the depths of loneliness,” Arefi said.

“Now, no one is standing beside them to save them from Taliban punishments. The international community has chosen to remain silent in the face of these violations of women’s rights.”

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  • tygerprints@kbin.social
    124·
    3 months ago

    Just because no one holds you accountable for doing it, how can you justify being sick and evil enough to want to flog or stone somebody. What is going on with these middle eastern assholes?? Is it something in the water they drink or the food they eat that turns these bigoted males into such flagrantly mentally abberant pieces of utter walking dog shit??

    Well, my advice is, if you’re a middle-eastern woman, arm yourself any way you can and strike first. Throw the first stone, you might just crush the worthless skull of one of these misogynistic women-hating anti-human pieces of maggot infested filth, and do the world an immense favor.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Do you actually think that? That an Afghan woman arming herself with rocks world have a good outcome? Just seems like a really, really dumb thing to say.

      • tygerprints@kbin.social
        1·
        3 months ago

        I expect that kind of reply from a woman-hating and self-hating person like you. So, I don’t really value your opinion very much.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      It’s a few thousand years of the most regressive patriarchal pastoralist bullshit going on. It’s the culture and the religion, they go together. And I’m not referring just to Islam.

      • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        Is that a joke?

        The Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, announced that the group would begin enforcing its interpretation of sharia law in Afghanistan, including reintroducing the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery.

          • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            As shitty as that is,

            A woman who was arrested on a murder charge, which was later dismissed, following an abortion is now suing Starr County and its district attorney.

            Hit me up when women can sue men there. IIRC, they can’t even attend school…

            Y’all aren’t actually this stupid but it sure makes you look silly claiming these are the same things.

      • tygerprints@kbin.social
        1·
        3 months ago

        No I’m not saying the West is much better, but at least here we treat women with the same dignity as men. We spit on all of them, but at least we TRY to say we treat men and women equally.

        No the situation is not much better anywhere in the world.