[Thread] Western mainstream media is shedding crocodile tears over the fate of Afghan women in the light of the Taliban's return to power. This sudden concern for women's rights is cynical, disgusting and disingenuous...
When a progressive government came to power in Afghanistan in 1978 introducing wide-ranging anti-patriarchal reforms, the US and its allies planned, financed and armed an insurrection of far-right religious fundamentalist forces (of which the Taliban are immediate inheritors)...
Furthermore, thousands of Afghan women have died as a result of the war and occupation from 2001. And whatever limited advantages gained for women in the urban areas never extended to the countryside, which has been under the control of assorted warlord groups all along...
Focusing specifically on the question of women's rights at this point is a way of slyly justifying a four-decade-long imperialist aggression which has been perpetrated for cold economic and geopolitical purposes. Please don't be fooled.
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