[IsraelTimes] The United States has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls secondary schools, US officials say.
Finally! We thought they’d never give up.
"On Tuesday, we joined millions of Afghan families in expressing our deep disappointment with the Taliban’s decision to not allow women and girls to return to secondary school," a State Department spokesperson says.
"We have canceled some of our engagements, including planned meetings in Doha around the Doha Forum, and made clear that we see this decision as a potential turning point in our engagement," the spokesperson says.
The Taliban, which seized power in August and is eager for international recognition, shut down girls schools this week just hours after reopening them.
"This decision by the Taliban, if it is not swiftly reversed, will profoundly harm the Afghan people, the country’s prospects for economic growth, and the Taliban’s ambition to improve their relations with the international community," the spokesperson says.
"We stand with Afghan girls and their families, who see education as a path to realizing the full potential of Afghanistan’s society and economy."
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How can we tell they are discriminating against "girls" when SCROTUS nominee is unable to define "woman" and top "female" collegiate swimmer is a guy?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/26/2022 7:59 Comments ||
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^ Don't ask me -- I'm not a biologist.
Posted by: Matt ||
03/26/2022 8:06 Comments ||
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^ So, staying at a Holiday Inn Express™ last night doesn't help anymore?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/26/2022 8:32 Comments ||
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We seriously don't have bigger shit to worry about than this?
Posted by: Chris ||
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Just keeping track of events in Afghanistan as best we can, Chris. Not much news is allowed to get out.
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#5 We seriously don't have bigger shit to worry about than this?
US foreign adventures and bogeymen (Taliban, Putin) are a diversion from the Great Reset. All designed to distract us while they drive us into the poor house and make us dependent
A few days ago we thought we knew that TNTJ is a dawa (Muslim outreach) group established in 2004 that claims to be apolitical. Oddly enough, they found it necessary a few years ago to fire the founder for getting taped interfering with a plural number of women. Here’s what the Indians say:
[OneIndia] Courtesy the hijab issue created by some motivated individuals in Karnataka, the Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath (TNTJ) is back in the news. Three members of the TNTJ, Rahamatullah from Madurai, Covai Rahamathulla from Tirunelveli and S Jamal Mohammad Usmani from Thanjavur were arrested for threatening the judges of the Karnataka High Court over the hijab case.
These persons had issued a death threat to the judges who delivered the verdict in the case.
This group was formed in 2004 and was in the news following the Sri Lankan suicide kabooms of 2019.
However the group clarified that it had no role in the attack. The Indian connection to the blasts were found by the Intelligence agencies. The criminal mastermind behind the attack, Zahran Hashm was a follower of the TNTJ's founder P Jainulabdeen. However Jainulabdeen was expelled from the outfit for alleged sexual misconduct and misappropriation of funds in 2019.
The Bengaluru police had filed a case after a video of Rahamatullah surfaced in which he is heard saying that if the judges get killed they themselves will be responsible for the same. He also cites an incident from Jharkhand when a judge was mowed down while going on a morning walk. He says that people know where the CJ goes for a walk in the morning.
In a statement, the TNTJ said, "we want to make it clear that the actions of these few individuals who have been arrested do not reflect the views of the TNTJ outfit as a whole in any manner. Further, we don't even resort to protests that go as far as road rokos as it would cause inconvenience to the common public. There are untrue messages being spread tarnishing the image of the TNTJ."
The outfit's name had cropped when the NIA filed a chargesheet against one Mohammad Naseer in 2016. Naseer was heading to Libya from Sudan, but was apprehended and later deported to India.
He did his computer engineering from the MNM college in Chennai. It was at this time that he would visit a mosque at Chennai which was run by the Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath, non-political Islamic Organisation that preaches a puritanical version of Islam.
In 2015, the NIA had raided three locations of the TNTJ for their alleged terror links. In 2015, the Chennai police an FIR against the group following a complaint by an American national who accused the group of assaulting him for attempting to convert Moslems to Christianity. In 2019, a member of the group Faisal was arrested for his hate speech against Union Home Minister, Amit Shah.
In January 2021 tensions prevailed in the Mannady area of Chennai after members of the TNTJ protested actions of the Deputy Custodian of the Enemy Property Act of trying to seal their office. The officials alleged that the headquarters was being used for purposes other than what is declared. The TNTJ however said that the party pays Rs 4 lakh rent every year to the Union Government and is ready to purchase the property if the government is ready to sell it.
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They will do whatever it takes to wreck Ukraine. This matter is existential for Russia. They will not give up until Ukraine is in ruins. When will Biden and his people get it through their heads?
I have to ask:
What has happened to the Super Bad A$$ Russian Military that we were constantly told was a threat to world peace?
Did the USA Taxpayers really need to pump & dump $$ TRILLIONS of dollars into defending against this mess?
It seems clear Russia does not have:
* the claimed Ground Forces,
* the ability to quickly stage, mass and attack,
* lacks Skilled Sr. Level Combat Leadership,
* lacks tactical equipment in numbers needed for any mass Invasion of Western Europe. At best Russia, it seems, can pick off a smaller country every 5 to 10 years between rebuilding.
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"Russia's huge and threatening. Therefore we need to expand NATO to the edge of Russia."
"Russia's not a threat to us. Therefore we need to expand NATO the edge of Russia."
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It's not like Russia wasn't spending huge amounts on its military -- they were just not bothering to spend it on training and maintenance. You assess threats on capability -- and on paper, the Russian military has huge capabilities -- not on performance.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
03/26/2022 10:05 Comments ||
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I don't think anybody had "Seven Russian generals will be killed in the first 30 days" on their Bingo card.
Posted by: Matt ||
03/26/2022 10:14 Comments ||
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I had 5. But I thought they'd be killed by Putin
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/26/2022 10:15 Comments ||
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#11
So much for the theory that Putin was going to restore the Soviet Union...or the Russian Empire.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/26/2022 11:40 Comments ||
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Did the USA Taxpayers really need to pump & dump $$ TRILLIONS of dollars into defending against this mess?
OPFOR at the NTC.
However, the OPFOR practice many times a year with every unit that goes through the NTC.
OPFOR has contractor personnel to keep the vehicles running.f
OPFOR gets resupplied in the field.
OPFOR does not drive through kilometers of their own burning vehicles.
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