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Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror (www.theguardian.com)

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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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[-] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago

Do you think the West is that far off?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes totally different. I have never once heard any politician in my country invoke the Bible in discussion about policy.

Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/13720085?scrollToComments=true

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yes

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

We're trying!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.

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