HHe denied Afghan women jobs, education and free movement, ordered them to cover up, banned them from parks, removed critical care and silenced them. I will move in the speechThe Taliban have clearly reached a point where the joy of half the people must be balanced, like any sensible exercise in mass persecution, with the needs and enjoyment of the manly and free.
What, for example, to do about the windows? Doubly enraged by obsessive dominants, because they provide the daily pleasure of handmaids and allow non-insistent occasional evidence of their existence, these openings, on the contrary, benefit the male masters and the women’s children.
To defile, or not to love? The Solomon-like Taliban now has a supreme leader ban on windows only in the walls, which places are neglected, where there are still women, outside of domestic necessity allowed. Until that time when Afghan women can be kept – for sex, marriage and home – permanently underground, the last edict established that new buildings should not have windows from which “the court, the kitchen, the neighboring room and other places used by women”. visible
Last week, a Taliban government spokesman confirmed in 10 that, for men like him, even a woman fully covered, the broom is erected, the sexual stimulus is further away. “Seeing women in the kitchens, in the halls, or collecting water from the wells, they may commit obscene acts.
If, as it seems here and there, Taliban they consider the opinion in the outside world, again they seem to be correct in thinking that further inventing the feral misery of the female addition is unlikely to provoke – to what the unfortunate light on the priorities of many enlightened specific jurisdictions has illuminated – a significant criticism. .
The edict of Windows, for example, is still not enough evidence for the Taliban’s gender apartheid for the English authorities want cricket Afghan cricket team in their unbeaten match at Lahore next month. Cricket also stands against the recommendations of women’s organizations, explaining that racial apartheid in Afghanistan is as egregious as racial apartheid, which the ICC ended with the South African team once.
The ecstatic celebrations after Afghan cricket reached the semi-finals of the World Cup last year confirmed that international cricket is such an important source of pride for the Afghan male that, by donating it, the participating partners are removing valuable media. As for the coach of the Afghan team, Jonathan Trott, a former English cricketer, if he does not share this job with the misogynistic strikers captured in the documentary Fly Fly. Hollywoodgateit’s just because he never visited the country when he took office (in 2022, after women were already banned from schools and the work force) as the team plays home games in exile in the UAE. But perhaps, courtesy of the group’s sponsors, Trott still gets to listen to some Taliban-style bantz recruits. Hollywoodgate“A naked woman is like unwrapped chocolate.”
It is no less valid for the Taliban, since they continue to disregard the weak reminders of the UN that people are also people, their cooperation with foreign companies is equally active in Afghanistan to revive the city’s destination. Judging by online reviews, the number of visitors flying to Afghanistan from 2021, the torture of half of the female population is still close to gender apartheid as an inhibitor of tourism, so that vacationers can be considered contemptuous of their choice of leisure. On the other hand, the Taliban is often presented in a favorable light in some of the travelogues and comments that made Afghanistan safe. Unless you happen to be an Afghan woman. United Nations officials reported a “sharp increase” in women attempted destructiondirectly attributed to women’s desperation in the face of Taliban repression.
Specialized travel companies, if they also allude to the generation of apartheid, have used euphemisms in some cases that suggest that the Taliban continue to increase the attack on the human dignity of women among those attracting cultural differences, such as in the tent or in the hunt for the dead. the goat, which makes the fall festivals rewarding. The troubles of the country itself, without the entry of the laborers at whose hands, they only bear witness to challenge the viewer’s personal taste for authentic travel.
Campaigners once posted a factsheet to discourage visits to South Africa: “Apartheid is not a holiday”. It is now. Richard Bennett, UN special rapporteur on Afghanistan, concluded that the Taliban’s deprivations of human rights and their enforcement “can be blamed for crimes against humanity). the most common type of crime is persecution“. But the very nature of that persecution, by erasing it from public life, helps the apparent that organization by specialist travel companies who urge visitors to “see beyond the turbulent times and experience a beautiful country with a rich cultural history”. Although he would have been richer, of course, if it had not been for the Taliban The Buddhas of Bamiyan are blown upin the year 2001
Now the Taliban are being sold by one company as an entertaining cultural attraction. One past Safarat excursionfor example, he offers “good luck having a conversation with members of the Taliban who will accompany us on the walk.” Or someone else.
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If no women can contribute, barred from gossip, from reviews on TripAdvisor and elsewhere, it could not be clearer that many holidaymakers require, for whatever reason, even less incentive to overlook human rights anomalies than visitors to apartheid South Africa. On the other hand, former tourists, or madmen, seeking to know the “real” USSR, the real Third Reich, or the real South Africa, from the reviews Afghanistan to suggest that no evidence of contention on the part of the enslaved is now required for the reward journey.
In the 1980s, it is true, tour operators not only mocked the sanctions, but the ANC, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the active leadership of the UN and the UK government planned a “voluntary ban” on South African tourism “strong opposition in Britain to the principles and practice of apartheid”. The women in Afghanistan are still waiting.
Catherine Bennett is a columnist for The Observer