#taliban

[jangillman]

[bif-thetiredjewishthembo]

Reblog if you’re a “closeted (((Zionist)))” who cares deeply about the continued existence of a country that houses half of the world’s Jewish population (most of whom are refugees from MENA countries that violently expelled them) and also someone who cares equally as deeply about the freedom and rights of Afghan women and girls who are being oppressed by the Taliban.

[zoe-the-astromaniac]

If you ever feel unrecognised, just know that Afghan Women keep getting further dehumanised each and every day and no one talks about it because it's not popular on social media

[godisarepublican]

[infiniteglitterfall]

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Afghan women in medical school are heard sobbing as a man announces a new Taliban edict that bans them from medical training.

The Taliban have also banned women from being treated by male medical professionals.

These two decrees, coupled together, effectively prohibit women from receiving any type of medical care since there will be no female health workers to treat them.

[paleo-violet]

Netherlands to grant asylum to most Afghan women, girls | Amu TV

The Dutch government said worsening conditions under Taliban rule mean Afghan women and girls will qualify for protection in the vast majori

!!!!!

LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!

[unsolicited-opinions]

a stain on jewish ethics? the torah explicitly mandates smashing idols

[We're talking about this post] Anon is attempting to claim that smashing a Lebanese Christian religious icon is somehow ethical by Jewish standards.

If Anon actually cared about Jewish ethics, they'd know "the Torah says" is almost never the end of the conversation.

Talmud exists because Torah is often vague, contradictory, or culturally specific. If we lived by explicit mandates without the centuries of debate that followed, we'd be executing people for picking up sticks on Saturday. We don't do that, because we're not barbarians.

The Sages didn't just interpret the law - they placed massive guardrails around it. They took the "mandate" to smash idols and asked:

Whose idols?

In what territory?

Under whose authority?

Does it cause more harm than good?

The obligation to destroy idols applies specifically to idols owned by Jews or idols in a sovereign Jewish land under very specific historical conditions.

I'm not a Talmudist, but even I know this:

Avodah Zarah 44b-45b and later codifications (like Maimonides, Hilchot Avodat Kochavim 7:1) restrict the obligation to destroy idols specifically to Jewish sovereign lands. Outside of those lands, there is no general obligation for a Jew to destroy someone else's religious symbols.

(Modern Israel, of course, is rightly committed to religious freedom and protecting sites and objects held sacred by the faiths of others - because those are our ethics.)

For centuries, major Jewish authorities like the Meiri have categorized Christians as "nations bound by the ways of religion," not the pagans and idolaters the Torah was talking about. The Meiri argued that the entire Talmudic framework restricting interaction with idolaters was built around a specific historical category of paganism, namely communities with no organized moral or religious order. Christians, with their structured theology, scripture, and ethics, didn't fit that category.

The idol-smashing mandate was aimed at the cult of Ba'al, not the Maronites of Beirut. When Anon invokes it today against a Lebanese statue of Jesus, they're ignoring eight centuries of Rabbinic progress in order to justify a disgusting act of vandalism and desecration.

They're dressing up something profoundly ugly in religious language - demeaning us in the process.

When you smash a statue of Jesus, you aren't doing a mitzvah - you're acting like ISIS or the Taliban.

Fundamentalism is a suicide pact for a society. Whether it’s ISIS blowing up the temples of Palmyra or the Taliban dynamiting the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the motivation is generally the belief that their worldview is too fragile to share the universe with somebody's else's sacred symbols.

They justify their desecrations with their own fundamentalism, and in doing so, they declare war on history and humanity itself.

That, it seems, is where Anon wants to drag Am Yisrael.

@#$% that. and @#$% anybody who tries to justify barbarism with false, fundamentalist sanctimony.

To justify desecrations in the name of the Torah is to ape the desecrations of those who tried to erase us - Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus, Hadrian, and Titus.

We're a civilization, not @#$%ing barbarians.

[yayfeminism]

As the Taliban step up their war on women and girls, it is clear that appeasement has failed | Gordon Brown

Major powers have renewed diplomatic links while others seek deals to deport migrants. And all the while gender repression is getting worse,

"Afghanistan’s Taliban government has now issued its most extreme edict yet. It is already the only regime in the world where girls are excluded from secondary education. Now it has gone further, debarring all Afghan women from any contact with schools or education and doubling down on what has been rightly condemned as “gender apartheid”."