Summary
Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, reportedly fled to the UAE after criticizing the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education.
In a January 20 speech, he condemned the restrictions as unjust and contrary to Islamic teachings.
Following his remarks, Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada allegedly ordered his arrest and imposed a travel ban. Stanikzai claims he left for health reasons.
This comes amid increasing international pressure, with the ICC seeking arrest warrants against Taliban leaders for crimes against humanity over their treatment of women.
Well now he has no chance at a job in the Trump administration either.
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Forced to flee for having a divergent opinion, fucking dumb even by Taliban standards
Edit: thinking about this some more, I feel like this situation perfectly encapsulates why authoritarianism is so self destructive. You end up with a rigid set of ideas that are completely inflexible. Reality must bend to the ideas of the party rather than the other way around, until the party’s line becomes so incongruent with reality that things come tumbling down in an instant. It’s a shame the Taliban seem ok with Afghanistan remaining impoverished so long as they can continue treating women like shit.
I mean, is it? I think you assume too much about the value they place on rigorous intellectual debate.
Their thing is that the established, local version of Islam is perfect, handed down from god and miraculously transmitted flawlessly by whatever mullah is in charge today. Having a different take, besides presenting a very personal health and safety threat to the guys in charge, is non-figuratively heresy.
As for the edit, it’s worth noting that autocracies can become very flexible, in their own way, as soon as they stop bothering with the ideology. North Korea has gone on paper from communist to a mystical bloodline monarchy in what, a few decades? Of course, with the ideology goes any incentive to have a strong economy or technological base, let alone human rights, because it’s a bad tradeoff for less control of the peasants…
There is no Islamic rule preventing girls education, which is what the foreign minister was arguing for. It is the Pashtun tribal traditions hardliners which are banning it.
Yeah, I said the “established, local” version of Islam very deliberately. Like every other religion it’s flexible to whatever religious leaders find convenient.
On top of that, the idea that the teachings of Islam are limited to the Quran is not accepted by the mainstream at all, so you can’t even nail them, the way you can nail evangelicals on all the non or anti-biblical stuff they do.
I was wondering if this would happen. Now I know. 😒
We live in the bad timeline
Nuh uh, Dr.Strange said this is the only one where we win.
It was really just the first one he saw that they won. There were more timelines, Strange just got tired and picked this one.
Didn’t he go through literal millions or something in the movie? You bet your ass he was tired.
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What? How can he, a man, be wrong in the eyes of another man? Shocking. Honestly did he not try using misogynistic justification like if the girls can’t read or do math they won’t be able to read food labels or measure out ingredients and the men will therefore have to eat inferior or potentially poisonous food?
