So where are the protests?
Over 21 million women suffering under the most repressive gender apartheid regime in the world.
Approximately 21.6 million women and girls live in Afghanistan — the most repressive country in the world for women. In contrast, just over one million women and girls live in Gaza. This means that Afghanistan has 21.6 times more women and girls than Gaza. It remains a veritable hell on earth for women.
So where are the protests?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were thirty-six hospitals in Gaza. That’s thirty-six hospitals that women and girls had access to in Gaza. Thirty-six hospitals for one million women, where they could access health care from male or female doctors. Do you know how many women can access healthcare in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s new directives? Read on.
Since the disastrous exist of the US military from Afghanistan in 2021 under the Biden administration, the Taliban seized control of Kabul, promising to respect women’s and girls’ rights.
They lied.
Increasingly draconian measures have essentially erased women’s and girls’ presence from public arenas. Girls are now banned from attending secondary schools, banned from Universities, and banned from working for the government, NGO’s or the United Nations. Women are forced to wear a full body covering in public and are not allowed to travel without a male guardian. Public parks, gyms, and sports facilities are off-limits to women. Beauty salons were ordered to shut down in July 2023, causing over 60,000 women to lose employment. Women also cannot serve as judges, lawyers, or in law enforcement.
‘A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan’ — Meryl Streep
Women’s voices are now banned in public, and the latest in the Talibans war on women forbids them from being seen through a window.
So where are the protests?
During the US military presence in Afghanistan, essential services were set up to assist women facing gender based violence. However since the Taliban takeover, women’s mental health has reached crisis levels. Suicide has seen a sharp increase in Afghan women, and with the Taliban closing down the majority of services for women, as well as removing women from the health care system, it is likely to make it worse.
‘Because of the Taliban, Afghanistan has become a jail for women. We haven't got any human rights. We haven't the right to go outside, to go to work, to look after our children.’1 — Faranos Nazir, 34-year-old woman in Kabul
The severe gender apartheid laws go like this: Women are not permitted to see male doctors, however female doctors are no longer allowed to practice. So women are denied basic medical care. If an Afghan woman needs to see a doctor, she has to describe her symptoms to her husband or a close male relative, he then passes on the information to a male doctor for diagnosis. Insane.
So where are the protests?
Despite the Taliban taking over control of Afghanistan in 2021, the Islamic Republic, via the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, continues to hold Afghanistan's seat at the United Nations.2 You read that right.
Since 1948 there have been over 100 resolutions that have been critical of Israel by the United Nations. Israel, a democratic nation with judicial process that affords equal rights for women. Since the Taliban takeover, the United Nations has made only one resolution against Afghanistan in respect to their reprehensible gender apartheid, condemning the decision to ban Afghan women from working for the UN.3
The United Nations has labeled Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country for women, despite their lack of action. The country is ranked last on the Women, Peace and Security Index and the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan has referred to “the unprecedented deterioration of women’s rights”.4
So where are the protests?
The Taliban has issued at least 70 decrees and directives that directly target the autonomy, rights, and daily lives of women and girls.5 Yet every single weekend for fifteen months, my city of Melbourne, along with many major cities across the world have been occupied by idiots screaming for the rights of the people of Gaza. Screaming for the rights of a group of people who initiated and took part in a slaughter of people from a fellow democratic free country.
The irony and level of hypocrisy would be laughable if the dire consequences weren’t so severe. Dire consequences for over twenty million women of Afghanistan who have become ghosts in their own country. Over twenty million women that are enduring untold suffering at the hands of islamic men. Afghanistan is a cautionary tale of the depths of depravity that Islam can descend to when men have complete power and control.
The fact that serial protesters can't be bothered—or are too clueless—to recognise the parallels between the Islamic Regime of Iran, the Taliban, and Islamic terrorism in Gaza, as well as their complete failure to uphold human rights for Afghan women, speaks volumes about who they truly are.
So please, I beg of you. Where are the protests?
https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/6186.htm#:~:text=%22If%20we%20are%20to%20ask,their%20problems%20have%20been%20solved.%22&text=%22We%20have%20enough%20problems%20with,one%20asks%20us%20about%20that.%22&text=%22If%20a%20woman%20wants%20to,our%20religion%20and%20our%20culture.
https://afghanistan.un.org/en/about/about-the-un
https://unama.unmissions.org/un-security-council-resolutions?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/06/taliban-and-global-backlash-against-womens-rights
https://unwomen.org.au/faqs-afghan-women-three-years-after-the-taliban-takeover/
There are no protests because they don’t care about women’s rights really, unless it gives them a platform to condemn Israel and Jews. There were no protests over the kidnapping and raping of young Jewish women on October 7th, because again, they didn’t care. They are antisemites, pure and simple.
I wish all my idiot friends would read this and understand