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The World is Facing a Major Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
Meet the new Taliban- just like the old Taliban.
Last week, girls in Afghanistan were attending school. This week they are being abducted from their families by armed men and given to Taliban soldiers as “wives”. They are not wives; they are victims of sex traffickers.
Last week, new Afghan mothers were caring for their infants. This week, mothers are reportedly throwing their babies over barbed-wire fences at the Kabul airport to British soldiers on the other side in a last, desperate attempt to get their children out of the country and away from the Taliban.
Last week, many of the women in Afghanistan were working government jobs, serving in the military, teaching, practicing law, or pursuing other professions. This week they are in mortal peril.
Their future, once full of bright promise, is now treacherous. There is a widespread fear among many that they won’t be alive to witness it anyway. The Taliban’s views on women in the workplace are, in a word, murderous.
Not that women working in the home are particularly safe.
Last week, gay people in Afghanistan were dating, if still extremely quietly. This week, they fear the cellphones which helped them find and date one another will be confiscated by the Taliban…