Taliban set Afghan woman on fire for poor cooking: Report



Members of the Taliban reportedly set an Afghan woman on fire for what they said were her poor cooking skills, according to reports.

What are the details?

Former judge and women's rights advocate Najla Ayoubi said that members of the Taliban set a local woman on fire on Thursday after they deemed her cooking unacceptable.

"They are forcing people to give them food and cook them food," Ayoubi revealed. "A woman was put on fire because she was accused of bad cooking for Taliban fighters."

Calling the conditions across the country a "nightmare," Ayoubi added, "There are so many young women ... in the past few weeks being shipped into neighboring countries in coffins to be used as sex slaves."

Ayoubi said that she fled the country as soon as it became apparent that the Taliban would rise to power through force.

“They also force families to marry their young daughters to Taliban fighters," she added. "I don't see where is the promise that they think women should be going to work, when we are seeing all of these atrocities."

What else?

Last week, an unnamed Kabul-based female lecturer told the Associated Press that the Taliban has been visiting local homes to check its residents.

"They have been starting to go door to door, checking people's houses, sometimes forcing in," the woman recalled. "They are saying they are leaving the population alone, but that's an indication that this is not true."

Women's rights activist Fawzia Koofi — a member of the Afghan delegation working to negotiate peace during the U.S. withdrawal — insisted that Afghan women will greatly suffer under the new brutal regime and that chaos could have been avoided if the U.S. had delayed its exit for just four more weeks.

Koofi said that while she realized it was not "sustainable or logical" for the U.S. to remain in Afghanistan, the abrupt withdrawal was "so untimely."

"President [Joe] Biden could have delayed this to wait for a political settlement," she said. "For even just another month, just get the political settlement first. They could have come to a deal. ... Afghanistan is the victim of back-to-back mistakes."

She continued, "We all want international forces to leave. It's not sustainable or logical from any point of view to have a foreign force protecting your country, but this is so untimely for the U.S. to have chosen now, in the middle of negotiations and before we get a settlement."

MSNBC writer uses Afghanistan tragedy to equate pro-life conservatives with Taliban militants



A liberal journalist recently used the tragic events unfolding in Afghanistan to take a heinous potshot at conservatives.

In an op-ed published by the outlet on Wednesday, MSNBC opinion columnist Dean Obeidallah amazingly equated pro-life Republicans with the Taliban militants who have taken over Afghanistan in recent weeks, brutally murdering women along the way.

How are they the same? According to Obeidallah, both groups "deprive women of freedom" and "impose their religious beliefs on others."

What did he say?

The writer began his polemic by chiding Republican lawmakers such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) for voicing concerns for women and girls now under Taliban rule.

Obeidallah essentially questioned whether Republicans have any moral standing to condemn violence against women since they support legislation that prohibits women from murdering babies. Though he didn't quite put it like that:

I have to wonder where these voices were when extremists, based on a narrow reading of their religion's beliefs, enacted a law that forces a woman who was raped to carry the fetus of the rapist to term? That same law makes it a crime for anyone to assist that woman in trying to abort the rapist's fetus.

That law was enacted not by the Taliban in Afghanistan, but in Arkansas.

Obeidallah went on to note that Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, in promoting the law, "didn't hide" the fact that it was "about turning his religious beliefs into the law of the land." Rather, the governor claimed that he signed the legislation given his "sincere and long-held pro-life convictions."

Apparently, that makes him similar to the Taliban. But before going too far, Obeidallah digressed:

Look, nobody is saying the GOP and the Taliban are equally bad. But in just the past few months, we've seen Republicans champion measures to deprive women of freedom over their own bodies, as well as oppose laws to protect women from violence and ensure that women are paid the same wages as men. And they've done so, at least in part, to impose their religious beliefs on all others.

The saying, "Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts," rings true here, especially since Obeidallah goes on to chastise Republicans for their supposedly anti-woman political stance for the remainder of the column.

According to Obeidallah, the Taliban-esque beliefs held by Republicans include their rejection of gender pay gap legislation and their support for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

What else?

Sure, Obeidallah isn't actually equating the Taliban and pro-life conservatives in every sense. But the mere comparison ought to offend anyone with an ethical bone in their body.

The U.S. State Department reported in 2001 that during the Taliban's previous 5-year reign, the regime "cruelly reduced women and girls to poverty, worsened their health, and deprived them of their right to an education, and many times the right to practice their religion."

The report went on to say that Taliban forces "perpetrated egregious acts of violence against women, including rape, abduction, and forced marriage" and that tens of thousands of Afghan women reportedly had "no source of income" and "were reduced to selling all of their possessions and begging in the streets, or worse, to feed their families."

Taliban kill woman for not wearing burqa on very day they vow to honor women's rights: Report



The Taliban reportedly killed a woman for not wearing a burqa on the same day the terrorist organization promised to honor women's rights, according to a report from the New York Post.

What are the details?

The Post said that Taliban fighters shot and killed a woman Tuesday despite vowing to respect and honor women's rights.

Fox News reported that a grisly photo of a woman lying in a pool of blood emerged from Takhar province.

In the photo, people identified as the woman's loved ones can be seen crouched around the woman after she was reportedly gunned down by insurgents for not wearing a head covering while in public.

According to a Wednesday report from the U.K. Mirror, the woman was reportedly "executed by a rampaging death squad in [Taloqan]."

The New York Post reported that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced that the insurgent group would "honor women's rights" and urged women to return to school and work while handing out headscarves.

A former Afghani contractor with the U.S. State Department told Fox News that Taliban fighters were attacking Afghans who were trying to flee from Taliban rule.

“There was kids, women, babies, old women, they could barely walk," the unnamed former contractor told Fox News. “They [are in a] very, very bad situation, I'm telling you. At the end, I was thinking that there was like 10,000 or more than 10,000 people, and they're running into the airport. ... The Taliban [were] beating people and the people were jumping from the fence, the concertina wire, and also the wall."

Fox News reported that the contractor said the militants were "going through neighborhoods in search of people who'd helped the U.S. and that Taliban fighters had questioned his neighbors about him."

There are other reports that the Taliban fired shots at protesters across Afghanistan over the last several days, and noted that members of the Taliban were also said to have beaten journalists in the unfolding chaos.