Taliban 'do not see women as human', says Malala in Pakistan
Taliban 'do not see women as human', says Malala in Pakistan
Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to challenge policies restricting girls and women's schooling.
Summary
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned the Taliban’s treatment of women at a Pakistan summit on girls’ education in Muslim communities, stating, "The Taliban do not see women as human beings."
She criticized their policies banning Afghan girls from education and work as "gender apartheid" and un-Islamic.
Afghanistan is the only country banning education for girls beyond grade six, affecting 1.5 million girls.
Malala urged Muslim leaders to challenge these practices and advocate for girls' education globally.
The Taliban declined to attend or comment.
The f'n MAGAts and the Taliban share a lot in common.
There's a reason they call 'em "Ya'll-Qaeda" lol
Capitalists are more efficient than both.
They don't see almost anyone as human.
capitalism is what broke up gender norms; if a woman or a man presses a button for 8 hours what does a capitalist care?
She isn't wrong. Imagine not seeing half of the population as human, even though they carried you and everyone who has ever been born in the womb for 9 months and gave birth to you.
I live in the United States. I don't have to imagine, I can see it up close.
Literally can't be more wrong
ahhh the wonders of religion. humanity's self-induced blight
I can assure you that misogyny is not a result of religion, religion is just used to excuse it.
And because it's excused it's allowed to exist.
It’s the sickness and its own cure! Just like other drug addictions.
Ah yes, but other ideologies which have been destructive are not? I hope you'll be consistent in pointing out the secular states of today continue to wreak havoc, death and destruction in the middle east and Africa. (Let's not forget colonialism)
And the secular atheist communist states of Russia and China, those didn't commit ethnic cleansing and killed millions of people?
I'll just mention the destruction that the USSR brought to Kazakhstan that lingers to this day as an example.
She criticized their policies banning Afghan girls from education and work as "gender apartheid" and un-Islamic.
Says right there it is opposite of what the religion teaches?!
At least wait until there is an article that confirms your bias to spit your poison, dude.
Why do you jump to religion and not simply conclude that the Talibans are massive incels? You do realize that out of two billion Muslims only the Taliban are doing this shit right? Malala is calling them un-Islamic for a reason.
It is very clearly not only taliban. Extremist groups are, shocker, more extreme. Muslim religion and culture tends to treat muslim women as second class citizens. The more western the muslim country, the more they treat women like equals. Christians treat lbtq communty like shit and you wouldn't say americans in 70s were extremist christian nutjobs as it was standard to be homophobic, part of the culture.
Hey according to some that's okay, because at least they know what a woman is:
That's okay I'm sure her fellow "women's rights" defenders wouldn't do something awful like make fun of Malala's experiences:
Ofcourse JK Rowling likes that first tweet. What a vile piece of excrement
Jfc people are gross
When incels have complete control, basically.
It's probably good they have basic religious differences or Republicans and the Taliban would have joined forces by now.
If the US had not invaded Afghanistan and done such a shitjob the Taliban would have been overthrown by now. The Taliban was highly unpopular in 2001, but thanks to the US fucking everything up, they regained more land than they had otherwise by 2017 or so.
Nothing's certain with alternate scenarios. Perhaps Taliban would have eventually fallen, perhaps not. In the meanwhile, countless people will suffer under those goat fuckers.
The Taliban was highly unpopular in 2001,
Fuck's sake, the Northern Alliance was hard-pressed in 2001.
But it was very profitable for weapons dealers so that makes everything OK.
Religious bigots in power, what to expect?
Wow, neither do US republicans. So much in common.
They're also both religious fundamentalists who have very little care for religious scripture but love using religious imagery as a tool of oppression, huh they really are alike.
The word “chattel” sometimes gets used in conversations like this one, and I think we should stop doing that. It’s a confusing word that most people don’t understand, and is often confused with “cattle” ie cows. I mean just look at this definition:
Chattel is a catch-all category of property associated with movable goods . At common law , chattel included all property other than real property . Examples include leases, animals, and money.
TBH I think “livestock” is a better word all around. It means live animal property, which is accurate. People know what it means. And it has the right negative connotations, too: associating human beings with pigs and chickens, as if they’re on the same level.
"The Taliban declined to attend or comment."
Well yeah, they don't think a person was talking.
Really how is this news? The Taliban don't think woman are people, and water is wet.
We armed the wrong sex in Afghanistan.....
Sometimes the smartest person in the room is a woman. By refusing to educated women, they are limiting the intellectual growth and capabilities of their own culture. Cultures with fair, balanced rules, and systems of living, for everyone regardless of race, gender, or any other thing people imagine matters, will have a stronger society in almost all aspects from that alone. Because most of the things people imagine matter. Don't. In fact, what matters, is the actual intellectual capabilities of the individual, not how you or anyone else perceives them.
In fairness it's the Taliban. They're not exactly renowned for being interested in intellectual growth.
She isn't wrong to say this.
She's fearless and relentless... I really hope nothing happens to her.
Something about the "not human" phrasing is bothering me. I get what they're trying to convey and I don't dispute it, but it also feels inaccurate in a way that might lead us to miss important aspects of the situation.
I'm sure if you asked an Afghan man how many people live in his home, he'd include women and children in his answer. So I don't think they literally see women as a separate species.
My gut feeling is more like Afghan men don't generally believe in the concept of human rights, as opposed to separate sets of rights for men and women. Hell, they may not even believe in the Western concept of rights at all, and may think only in terms of things like religious obligations and cultural norms.
I wonder if there's a different phrasing we could use that has the same emotional impact but doesn't suggest questionable conclusions about the world view of Afghans.
I’m sure if you asked an Afghan man how many people live in his home, he’d include women and children in his answer.
I'm not so sure. I have zero basis to think it's one way or another, but given all the oniony-but-actually-pure-facts headlines of these recent… months? I'm definitely not certain of it.
you shouldn't base your thinking on western news which generally have an incentive to exaggerate everything related to Afghanistan and taliban.
there's a recent video from a non-muslim youtuber called Arab going to the taliban and vlogging his experience, from what I saw in his video the taliban aren't as bad as the headlines suggest, I don't really like the guy but the videos are good.
the fact that they don't give girls the same rights as boys are facts, but there's more to it than just "girl less than boy" as the media portrays it, you need to understand the culture more before coming to conclusions like that the afghans think of women as subhuman.
Good, we see Taliban as demons wearing human skin since time immemorial.
You mean except for when you guys were training and arming them right?
The dichotomy of the west running a literal concentration camp in Gaza and then taking the moral high ground on Afghanistan as if that is where human life is not valued is hillarious.
I would like to point out while she may be right about this, she has been very silent on whats going on in Palestinian and when she was called out on it she released a vague PR statement. She is compromised.
"The Taliban do not see women as human beings."
Not many do.
Now what?
I’m sure that women don’t see the taliban as being human either. Wonder which one of the two will survive the other’s inevitable extinction.
What do hamas think of women?
Is this supposed to be some gotcha that justifies Israel's genocide? Because what does Israel think of all of the women they are killing? And in Syria as well.
No, but there's nuance. Hamas is not worth supporting under any circumstance. I believe the Arabs and Muslims in Gaza and the West Bank should be able to live peacefully with all non Arabs and non Muslims in the region. Hamas does not want that. Hamas does not want peace with non Muslims, especially Jews.
It's so telling that in all your replies, you keep going back to how "Hamas is evil" while casually glossing over Israel's role in this genocide and their constant crimes against humanity.
Exploding buses from Hamas? No no no, inhuman. IDF forces dressing up as healthcare workers to go around unnoticed? Or Israel using civilians as human shields? bUt wHaT aBoUt hAmAs!?
It's also telling that some 20 days ago, in another post, you wrote
If what Luigi did was terrorism then I support terrorism! Viva La terror!!!
So you do understand violence as a legitimate method of protest/resistance. But you don't understand it for Hamas or any other Muslim groups. Interesting...
You Zionist trolls are all the same
Luigi killed an oppressor. Teenagers and old ladies that Hamas targets in their atracks are not oppressors. I'm not unaware of Israel, but Hamas does use human shields. This is a fact. Hamas cannot ever do this. It is inhumane. It shreds them of innocence. It makes removing Hamas impossible without innocent loss, and I hear you on wanting thay. If oct 7 resulted in only oligarchs and military leaders and politicians being targeted I'd be having a different discussion. If any intifada by Hamas had desired peace instead of total war, we'd have a different discussion. Hamas is as evil as Israel is, I agree.
What do hamas think of women?
What does Israel think of all the women they raped and killed then? And what does it think of children too, since they killed more children then any other country in 2024?
Gtfo with your Zionist talking points
A lot better than the Taliban, that's for sure. The Taliban are a whole thing on their own when it comes to women's rights.
Fair enough. Don't disagree on the taliban.
Headline/statement improvement note for your online discussing:
"Taliban do not understand that women are human", or "Taliban continue to refuse to acknowledge that women are human".
Don't imply a possibility of correctness that isn't there.
Rule 1 in this community includes, "title must match the article headline." OP did as we request.
She can change taliban to Islam at large. Other Arab countries would be doing it to if they thought they could get away with it.
It's not "Islam at large", look at Iran pre-revolution, or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. They had a multitude of problems, but Islamic fundamentalism wasn't one of them.
You don't even need to leave Afghanistan. Afghanistan before the Soviets invaded was a very different place.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/asia/gallery/afghan-women-past-present/index.html
Just like christian nations: the worse educated and poorer the more abusive sky dictator trumps love for fellow human.
Other Arab
Didn't tell on yourself until the second sentence this time, well done
You think the Taliban and Pakistan and Afghanistan are... Arab? Why don't you believe that they are Pashtuns?