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Canada urges Taliban to reverse decision on banning women from NGO work

OTTAWA – Canada’s international development minister is calling on the Taliban to reverse its decision to bar women from working at non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan.

Harjit Sajjan’s comments come as several major international aid groups announce plans to suspend operations in the country taken over by the Taliban, a listed terrorist entity, in August 2021.

Millions have been thrown into poverty since then and and are now facing hunger, with the United Nations estimating as many as six million Afghans are currently at risk of famine. The International Committee of the Red Cross has also reported an increase in malnutrition and pneumonia among children, with concerns only mounting given the onset of winter.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2022December 25, 2022•0•Afghanistan, Canada, WTF?

Afghanistan protests: Taliban use water cannon on women opposing university ban

The Taliban have used a water cannon to disperse a group of women protesting against the ban on female students in Afghanistan attending university.

Videos on social media showed the women taking cover in a lane in the city of Herat to escape a powerful stream of water.

Dozens of women holding a protest march could be heard shouting slogans including: “Education is our right”.

In one clip, women could be heard shouting: “The Taliban are cowards.”

#Breaking Afghan girls take onto the streets in western Herat city to protest education ban. Taliban targets them with water cannon. The ongoing Herat is one of the largest protests. Many small groups like this one v come out. @AFIntlBrk #LetHerLearn pic.twitter.com/XEgMy89kfQ

— Harun Najafizada (@HNajafizada) December 24, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2022December 24, 2022•0•Afghanistan

Millions in Hundred Dollar Bills Flown to the Taliban for “Humanitarian Aid”

As the Taliban were taking over Afghanistan, I predicted that Biden would fund the Taliban using “humanitarian aid” as a pretext. Since then, Biden has provided $1.1 billion in Afghan aid.

Despite assurances that the money would not go to the terrorists, the Biden administration issued global licenses authorizing financial transactions with the Taliban and the Al Qaeda allied Haqqani Network that include the “delivery and provision of humanitarian aid”.

h/t Ingenui

by Blazingcatfur•December 19, 2022December 19, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Afghanistan, USA, WTF?

Afghan ‘murderer’ is put to death in front of hundreds at sports stadium

An Afghan man convicted of murder was executed in public Wednesday, the Taliban said, the first confirmation of such a sentence since the hardline Islamists returned to power.

Last month Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings and floggings, and the amputation of limbs from thieves.

by Blazingcatfur•December 7, 2022December 7, 2022•0•Afghanistan

NATO trained them. Now these Afghan soldiers are joining the Russian army to help attack Ukraine

A former Afghan platoon commander says he was doing manual labour on the Iranian island of Kish when he received a phone call. He says he listened carefully as a former comrade made a proposal: Join a new army and fight for a new cause.

That army was Russia’s, and the cause was the war against Ukraine.

The offer was for six months of training in Russia, $1,500 to $3,000 (U.S.) a month (three to six times what he’s been making in Iran) and Russian citizenship for him and his immediate family members.

by Blazingcatfur•November 22, 2022November 22, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Afghanistan

Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia law

Public executions and amputations some of the punishments for crimes including adultery and theft

Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully implement aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amputation of limbs for thieves, the Taliban’s chief spokesman said.

Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted on Sunday that the “obligatory” command by Haibatullah Akhundzada came after the secretive leader met with a group of judges.

Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since the Taliban returned to power in August last year, rules by decree from Kandahar, the movement’s birthplace and spiritual heartland.

by Blazingcatfur•November 14, 2022November 14, 2022•0•Afghanistan

Afghan woman hangs herself to avoid being stoned to death in public by Taliban

An Afghan woman has hanged herself to avoid being stoned to death in public by Taliban forces after she was accused of running off with a married man.

The 24-year-old woman, named locally as Salima, was caught with the married man by the Taliban after she ran away from her home in Ghor Province, central Afghanistan, on October 10.

Salima, who was also married, was sentenced to death for adultery and was due to be stoned on Friday, while her lover, identified locally as Sirajuddin, was shot dead by the Taliban.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence

Canadian officials have met with Taliban more than a dozen times to discuss women’s rights: documents

Ottawa has been pressing the Taliban for months on women’s rights, fighting terrorism

Canadian government officials have met with representatives of the Taliban on at least 13 occasions in Qatar since it swept to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, documents obtained by CBC News reveal.

The documents, obtained through access to information law, show David Sproule, Canada’s senior official for Afghanistan, has been — along with various Global Affairs Canada (GAC) officials and representatives of allied countries — pressing the Taliban for commitments on extending the right to an education to women, fighting terrorism and granting safe passage to Afghans who want to leave the country.

by Blazingcatfur•October 5, 2022October 5, 2022•0•Afghanistan, Canada, WTF?

Afghan Man, Brought to U.S. by Biden, Accused of Sexually Assaulting 12-Year-Old Boy

An Afghan national, brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation over the last year, has been charged with violently attacking and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

by Blazingcatfur•October 1, 2022October 1, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Afghanistan

Canada must loosen Taliban sanctions amid multiple Afghanistan crises: aid groups

via GIPHY

Major humanitarian groups are urging the Trudeau government to loosen its restrictions on working with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Canadian Red Cross, Oxfam Canada and Amnesty International are among 18 groups arguing that Ottawa has fallen behind its peers in finding loopholes for humanitarian aid while isolating the Taliban regime.

They say the Canadian sanctions are blocking their response to a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2022September 22, 2022•0•Afghanistan

Mark Frerichs: US hostage swapped for Afghan leader linked to Taliban

The Taliban have released a US engineer they had held hostage since 2020 in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader held in US custody since 2005.

Mark Frerichs was handed over at Kabul airport on Monday, the Taliban said.

In return they received Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban ally serving a life sentence for drug trafficking.

US President Joe Biden said that the swap required “difficult decisions” that he did not take lightly.

by Blazingcatfur•September 19, 2022September 19, 2022•0•Afghanistan, USA

Christians ‘Face Routine Torture’ in Afghanistan

The estimated 15,000-20,000 Christians who remain in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover “face routine torture and persecution from both the government and their own friends, families and communities,” according to a new report.

This is not a new development. From the start on August 15, 2021, matters significantly worsened for Christians when the Biden administration abruptly surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban. The poorly-planned defeat of U.S. troops caused the Central Asian nation to fall right back into the grips of the Taliban, one of the Islamic terrorist groups complicit in the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.

by Blazingcatfur•September 18, 2022September 18, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians

Taliban posts ISIS-style execution videos

Taliban posts ISIS-style execution videos showing prisoners being shot dead by cheering fanatics as they copy terror group’s tactics to instil fear among Afghan resistance fighters

The Taliban have summarily executed members of a resistance group fighting against their harsh rule in Afghanistan.

A video filmed and shared on the Taliban’s group chats shows a group of five blindfolded fighters who have their hands tied behind them before they are executed by cheering members of the Taliban.

In a move that echoes ISIS’s social media strategy, Taliban shared their battlefield atrocities to spread fear among their enemies.

Meta Oversight Board objects to removing positive newspaper report on Taliban

by Blazingcatfur•September 16, 2022September 16, 2022•0•Afghanistan

‘We Did That’: Afghanistan a Year after the US Surrender

Afghanistan is a Terror State, Al Qaeda Is Thriving

July 31^st 2022. Kabul, Afghanistan. Ayman al-Zawahiri is killed by an American drone strike. His death is described as a victory against Islamic terrorism and a success for the Biden administration. Zawahiri was an Islamic terrorist, head of al-Qaeda; his death was good news. America’s intelligence services showed they still could obtain precise intelligence in hostile countries and strike enemies of the United States wherever they are. Was the elimination of Zawahiri, however, really a victory against Islamic terrorism?

It was right to have left Afghanistan.

by Blazingcatfur•September 9, 2022September 9, 2022•0•Afghanistan

Homeland Security May Have Allowed Dangerous, Unvetted Afghans Into United States: Inspector General

During the evacuation of Afghanistan from July 2021 to January 2022, the United States brought nearly 80,000 Afghan citizens into the United States, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to fully vet some of the evacuees, potentially allowing individuals who pose a national security risk into the country, according to a recent report.

The DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit to determine the extent to which the DHS screened, vetted, and inspected the evacuees.

by Blazingcatfur•September 9, 2022September 8, 2022•0•Afghanistan