Summary
Sher Abbas Stanikzai, a senior Taliban official, publicly criticized the group’s ban on education for Afghan women and girls, urging Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada to reverse the policy.
Speaking in Khost province, he condemned the bans as unjust and unsupported by Islamic law, depriving 20 million women of their rights.
This marks Stanikzai’s strongest call for change.
The international community, including Malala Yousafzai and the U.N., continues to pressure the Taliban on this issue, linking education access to potential recognition of their government.
So does he have supporters, or did he just feel like getting purged today?
he condemned the bans as unjust and unsupported by Islamic law, depriving 20 million women of their rights.
Fucking hero, hope he convinces at least some other members.
I’m not sure I’d go that far. Presumably he’s still all for beheading gays and things.
Is this where we say incremental progress is best because it’s actually lasting? Like with the Dems in the US?
I actually don’t know nearly enough about this situation to comment like that. Incremental progress is good, and sometimes lasts, but is that what’s happening here? This is an autocracy. We actually had very radical progress the wrong way in the last few years. The idea of rolling it back a bit is probably part of palace intrigue of some kind, and probably related to foreign pressure from people like the UAE, but how exactly?
(Also, radical progress has always gone funny to date, but even when it fails it has a way of planting seeds. In a lot of ways the French Revolution is still going and basically why we have democracy, so there’s nuance)
Anyway, I’d just take issue with the wording of “hero”. I still agree that treating Afghan women somewhat like humans would be better.
I guess I was just being facetious that the guy sounds like a Taliban moderate, like he’s not so radical that he’d not kill women and gay people, he’s the compromise candidate who will only kill gay people.
It just feels like a strong parallel to US politicians who are all for not killing women via denial of abortions, but are still for killing poor people and workers via denial of insurance.
I hope this isn’t just for show, and he doesn’t meet a terrible fate.
Knowing the [greater] middle east, i doubt it. He’d be a martyr.
You’d have to have balls of fucking titanium to oppose a dictatorship, not just for show.
Afghanistan is not in the Middle East, it’s solidly in Central Asia though. I think women can get an education in all of its neighbours - at least in India, Pakistan and Iran they can. They wouldn’t mind them catching up I think.
As i said, [greater] middle east :)
They wouldn’t mind them catching up I think.
You underestimate how insane the Taliban is. If it meant total extinction for them even then they wouldn’t do it 😂
As i said, [greater] middle east :)
TF kind of weird American term is that. Kabul is as far away from the Middle East as Berlin or Moscow is. It’s as if Turkey or Iran went around talking about the “greater European area” and included everything from Vladivostok through Berlin to Anchorage just because the prevailing culture has christian roots.
Also, this guy is also “the Taliban”. They have their own internal struggles, and I think demilitarizing will soften them up a bit. That said, I also don’t expect a female Afghan prime minister in the next century.
Kabul is as far away from the Middle East as Berlin or Moscow is.
Berlin/Moscow are 1,500 kilometers farther than Kabul from Riyadh as an example. And Kabul is a little less farther than Istanbul, so that point is null.
Turkey or Iran went around talking about the “greater European area” and included everything from Vladivostok through Berlin to Anchorage just because the prevailing culture has christian roots
Turkey IS european? I see no relation to anchorage, though. And that’s a far fetch. Afghanistan actually has historic relations with us. They were under the ummayads (not good example of “good” relations but cmon, when has anybody ever had good relations in the ME?) It’s not just Islam. I even understand Dari and Pashto much more than i do turkish. (i do understand hebrew vaguely, as an example)
Also, this guy is also “the Taliban”. They have their own internal struggles, and I think demilitarizing will soften them up a bit. That said, I also don’t expect a female Afghan prime minister in the next century.
I didn’t deny that at all. The main argument was about women’s rights and he is clearly better than most in Afghanistan. I’m not sure what you expect here.
I didn’t even say you are wrong when you said Afghanistan isn’t in the middle east. Truth be told, the ME is a very vague term. Most people i know think libya is middle eastern while (less) think Iran for example is not. I consider them middle eastern enough and you don’t, that’s fine.
It literally and effectively neuters 50% of your workforce having such a policy.
“But women make us feel funny, in our pantsal regions” - The rest of the Taliban
