Protests erupted all over Afghanistan the last few days against the Taliban. Those protests hit Kabul on Thursday on Afghanistan Independence Day.
They celebrate their independence from British rule in 1919.
Women took charge in some of these protests. As we all know, the Taliban treat women like crap. We know the Taliban will cut women off from education, make them completely cover-up, etc.
Afghani women face actual oppression, unlike the fake oppression feminists supposedly endure in America.
The United States and the rest of the world demanded the Taliban respect women. The insurgents promised “to provide women with [an] environment to work and study” and place them in the government. However, they will only do this “according to Islamic law and in accordance with our cultural values.”
In other words, oppression.
As the Taliban close in, some women choose to hide. They’re terrified. Some sources said insurgents go door-to-door to find the opposition.
I cannot blame them. I do not fault the women who hide and stay home:
“I do not believe the Taliban,” said a senior female broadcaster in Kabul, who said she remained in hiding Tuesday at a relative’s house.She said she was too frightened to return home much less to work following reports the Taliban had a list of journalists and had knocked on some of their doors after entering Kabul on Sunday.Her father told her to stay in hiding until the security situation becomes clearer. Speaking to the AP by phone, the 29-year-old, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, said the situation is unclear for women in Afghanistan.
But some women emerged and protested the Taliban.
Protests also happened in Kabul, Khost, Asadabad, and Jalalabad:
And several people were killed in the eastern city of Asadabad when Taliban fighters fired on people waving the national flag at a rally there on Thursday, Afghanistan’s annual Independence Day, according to a witness cited by Reuters.It was not clear whether the casualties had come from the gunshots or from a stampede they set off, the witness, Mohammed Salim, was quoted by the news agency as saying.It was a remarkable display of defiance, coming just one day after violence broke out at protests in two other cities, with Taliban members shooting into crowds and beating demonstrators.
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