Afghanistan bans school girls older than 12 from singing.

aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/3/11/rights-group-denounce-ban-on-afghan-schoolgirls-public-singing

And they had their little peace meeting between Taliban, hizbullah and the ayatollah in Tehran just a month ago. ?Co-incidence, think not

i’d rather you treat my country with some amount of respect after the US spent forty years funding the exact groups that are bringing about this strain of thought rather than treat it the same way you would any other third world country that is being raped by the West for its resources

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what does this even mean tho lol, sure the US is heavily to blame but that doesnt change the reality of the situation

The “liberal” United States spent billions of dollars funding tribal, ultrareligious, terrorist groups in Afghanistan to draw the Soviet Union into a war it did not want to fight without any regard for the progression and development of the nation in which this battleground was taking place

the reality of the situation is the direct result of American interference in the progression of afghanistan for its own capitalist agenda, and to act so uppity about this situation is idiotic.

Yes, the afghan government is backwards and must concede to a fighting force that is somehow overtaking it by introducing conservative laws, but this is an american puppet fighting pakistan funded terrorist groups

who funds pakistan ?

the united states

not really sure what this means

no one (sane) is out here disagreeing about your point about US imperialism

but that doesnt change the fact that afghanistan passed a sexist policy that needs to be removed, and idk how you accomplish that if you cant even point that out

i’d rather OP not sound like a d***head about issues that were brought about by his own country’s doing

to act like this was purely afghanistan becoming a conservative nation and not an effort by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (and thus by extension, the USA) to enforce Wahhabist and Pashtun-Nationalist indoctrination in my homeland is the pure display of a lack of nuance

what ur not understanding is that removing the root cause doesn't necessarily remove its consequences, although its a necessary precondition

like the US and its proxies obviously need to leave the country but the damage is already done, so beyond that afghanistans actions need to be criticized

like again what are you even trying to say here, that we should be nice to the country and avoid hurting your feelings? tf does that even accomplish?

the issue is that this site does not understand the preconditions of afghanistan nor its politics at all. Their knowledge begins with the words “al-Qaeda,” “9/11,” and “Rambo III” and ends right there save for whatever anecdotes I can share about the years i spent growing up in Kabul

The entire point of my stance is that this conservativism is literally only enabled by the fact that the US is using my country as a money pot for its military industrial complex, and it is a glaring issue that should be pointed out instead of pretending like my country ended up having some theocratic revolution on its own with the goal of oppressing women

the point is not to shift blame for the sake of saving face but for people to get into their heads that this entire doing is not some independent variable that Afghans themselves came up with. This is the result of half a century of first world neo-colonialism

so basically youre saying that fixating on these specific laws obfuscates the real issue underlying them , that being the MIC and US empire

yeah i see that

but again dont think that ending those things will magically fix all of these problems. crucial first step though

obviously.

Pakistan’s ISI and the Saudi Foreign Intelligence office have been nearly openly funding the Taliban since the 1990’s, and America simply will not stop giving them money even though it gets americans killed

they will also not pursue ANY productive solutions in regards to rebuilding ANY of the damage done in this country. Any progress made since 2010 has basically been reversed

i’ve given up on my home for a while

just curious, given that you feel that people dont understand the nuance of afghanistans situation enough, what reading do you recommend that accurately reflects it

I don’t read on afghanistan since I lived there for my childhood and basically know everything from word of mouth and general history/knowledge, but my best advice is reading up on the history of Afghanistan from the 1960’s all the way to 2001. There is so much that happened that nobody in the US understands that it’s honestly mind blowing

I do want to compile my own book on the history of Afghanistan and it’s history of being influenced by foreign powers

the future of chinese mineral prospecting is extremely likely

yeah I have some small understanding of the situation, but would like to read more into it

I see where you're coming from

I would also recommend Iftikjar Malik’s book on Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics of SW Asia to understand a lot of the issues regarding the ethnic makeup of Afghanistan/Pakistan and why they’re so tied together compared to Iran

Ibrahimi’s book on the Hazara also is a good book on ethnic relations that details the issues regarding the Hazara and the potential persecution that the American backed, Pashtun dominated government would play

The Taliban are a Pashtun political entity that want an ethnonationalist state

Not trying to sound like a d***head. You are correct; It is uncle sam and the queen's fault and the ayatollah is their b****** child.

Taliban are religious nuts bro. They are pressuring the government to put these iran laws in place thats why they had a meeting in tehran a while back. They wanna spread their ideology. The ayatollah in iran is doubling down with the moral police offenses in iran.

Lawmakers shouldnt discriminate against gender and having fun, playing music and going to sporting events are the first steps to equality.

People need to point finger and spread awareness. We are in the meme era it,s necessary to crack some jokes to engage

go to google and look up pictures of afghanistan in the 60s and 70s, it's almost like the US's involvement in helping take down it's government in the 80s and invasion in the 2000s caused the country to go down this path

Yeah man. Same with iran.

Uncle Sam and Queen put these backward religious opportunist coons in charge there because they know with them in charge the richest region on the planet wont progress. And they can steal the resources or buy it for pennys.

For example in iran they break away the mountain and sell the iron in stone form for cheap. They dont even have the ability to extract the iron and sell it! Its not because the ppl aint smart enough it's because dumb asses with zebibah mark on their forheads run the industry. They are lazy opportunists and all they care about is pretend to be hollier than thou

I like the direction @americana took the thread