‘Disturbing Surge’ in Afghan Female Suicides, Attempted Suicides
‘Disturbing Surge’ in Afghan Female Suicides, Attempted Suicides
‘We are witnessing a moment where growing numbers of women and girls see death as preferable to living under the current circumstances,’ a UN official has been quoted as saying
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Their only dignified escape from the conservative nightmare is by their own hand. Nothing good in history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing.
Conservatism is a plague of oppression and death. And the plague is spreading.
80 0 ReplyLatest: The Taliban have decreed that any woman caught attempting suicide will be put to death.
58 0 ReplyCorrect me if I'm wrong but don't some JudeoIslamic factions already punish suicide with death?
9 0 ReplyYes. Though it's not really as hypocritical as it seems at first glance.
Assume you view suicide as being punished with eternal torment.
Someone wants to kill themselves, but, if you kill them instead it isn't a mortal sin.
From your moral framework the execution is now a mercy. They no longer suffer, in this life or the next.
Ya know, if you believe in sky daddies and whatnot.
27 0 ReplySuicide, really. That's the last thing you should try. You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times, they'd have hung you for it.
-- Peter Cook, Bedazzled (1968)
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They should kill the men in their lives first
36 0 ReplyDisturbing yes but not entirely surprising. I hope the Taliban get their just dues for what their doing to women soon.
15 0 ReplyThey won't.
12 0 ReplyBy who?
9 0 ReplyThe army that folded in two days after 20 years of time wasted trying to make a horse drink.
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The only way that will happen is for the women of Afghanistan to receive the same training and equipment as the Ukrainian army are getting.
3 0 ReplyThere is hope for internal revolution still. An sooner or later internal unrest and change will happen, as it did in basically every other place in history.
The only question is when.
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Absolutely tragic, but I probably would do the same were I forced to live the life they're forced to with no hope of escape.
14 0 ReplySoon it'll be
10 0 Replyit kinda already is, look up bacha bazi
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This was 100% predictable
7 0 ReplyTo be expected.
7 0 ReplyGee, I wonder why... is it because they're treated like property instead of people?
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