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| The flight of the human-rights warriors from Afghanistan and Iran |
| 2021-08-24 |
| [Arutz-7] - I had already started writing this article when I stumbled upon an article in The Atlantic, "The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights. It’s remarkable how quickly liberals abandoned the women of Afghanistan." The initial impetus was U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s remarks earlier this year when he said the "administration will stand against human-rights abuses wherever they occur, regardless of whether the perpetrators are adversaries or partners." It needs to be pointed out that The Atlantic is not some right-wing outlet, but is a leading light for the Democrat Party. So kudos to them for publishing this article. "Get the hell out has ... been the liberal position for two decades, until about 72 hours ago, when Democrats suddenly became so concerned about the fate of Afghanistan. ... You can call for American troop withdrawal for 20 years. ... But you need to be ready to take it on the chin when you get what you ask for, and the inevitable happens: girls being forced into child marriage and forbidden to go to school or to leave the house without a male relative. Is your conscience prickling. ... It’s remarkable how quickly the left took up the cold calculus of realpolitik. How quickly it forgot its love for Malala, the young Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban bullet to the head, her only crime getting an education and trying to help other girls get one too. The White House must have known she’d give Biden a bad news cycle or two, and indeed, she appealed to the president to take ’a bold step’ to stave off disaster." |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 A metaphor for media storytelling about the Stan |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-24 18:16 |
| #7 ...that's a question the Chinese are working on. In the end, there can be only one. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-08-24 18:03 |
| #6 #5 I seem to recall that apostasy is punishable in Pakistan. Which is why I'm unable to grasp how Communists are able to exist in Pakistan. Can a Muslim really be a Communist if he/she is not an apostate? Of course there are Christians, Sikhs and Hindus in Pakistan as well, who can become Communists. And then there was this case of Afghanistan having a Communist government as well. How does that work out; how does Communism exist in a Muslim country? |
| Posted by: Rhinemann 2021-08-24 15:48 |
| #5 I seem to recall that Malala Yousafzai‘s father is a communist of some sort, but Wikipedia claims he is a Pashtun, the son of a Sunni imam who taught theology at a government high school, and a member of the secular leftwing Awami Nationalist Party — which stands for Pashtun autonomy within Pakistan. Malala was well trained to puppet her father’s talking points. Whether Oxford has since taught her to think for herself remains to be seen. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-08-24 14:51 |
| #4 Well, Malala is the same lady who blocked a lady on Twitter after she asked for her opinion about the underage Hindu girls, who are in minority in Pakistan, being abducted and forcibly converted to Islam and married off to Muslim Pakistani men and denied any contact with their own families. Malala is about as useful to the oppressed women as an appendix is to a human. |
| Posted by: Rhinemann 2021-08-24 14:31 |
| #3 Funny. I would think all these humanitarian groups, aid workers, social workers would be flocking to Afghanistan, seeing as how for the last 20 years they have been peacocking about how they could do Afghanistan better. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-08-24 13:15 |
| #2 How quickly it forgot its love for Malala, the young Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban bullet to the head And was subsequently recruited under threat of a second attempt. Or that was the game all along. Graze her skull with a low power bullet and if she survives you've got a respectable spokeswoman for 'moderate' islam into the international forums. NGOs and humanitarian concerns are not really saints, they play in muddy waters for their own agendas, and they know who they're playing with, that most of their beneficiaries do not really deserve anything. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-08-24 12:40 |
| #1 NGO = No Good Outcomes |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-24 12:22 |