Apparently the Taliban is to get a rep on the human rights committee
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The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan raises the prospect that an entity notorious for violating women’s rights and human rights in general, for targeting heritage and culture which it views as un-…
allaboutworldheritage.com
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan raises the prospect that an entity notorious for violating women’s rights and human rights in general, for targeting heritage and culture which it views as un-Islamic, and for deriving revenue from the opium trade, will inherit seats on U.N. bodies dealing with those very issues. Under the ousted government of…
Ya know what's sad. Up until sometime in the 70s the City of Kabul was a decent place. Many said it was more of a European city than many European cities were. Women went to school/university. They worked "non-traditional" jobs. They sang, they danced, they dressed how they wanted and/or in the latest fashions. They were free to live the lives they wanted.
Then subhuman religious extremists and commie shit bags ruined it all. Then the US came along and did a reverse Vietnam. Instead of sending in the troops, they armed and trained the local armed groups and others who had joined them to use in a proxy war against the communists. They in turn indoctrinated many kids with extremist islamic views and thus created the Taliban we all know today.
Let that be a lesson to the sleepy ones out there. It took about 20 years for Afghanistan to go from moderate and free, to a communist shit-hole, and about another 20 years after that to be turned a religious extremist shit-hole.
The center of the road is all the usable surface. The extremes of left and right are the gutters. - Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Just because you've been force fed a particular ideology since childhood doesn't mean it's a good ideology or the shit you've been "taught" is true or accurate. People are force fed religion, just like the Taliban were, and they rarely alter their beliefs either.