As women in the United States celebrate 104 years of voting rights, Afghan women face a grim reality under the Taliban's oppressive Vice and Virtue laws. These laws, reinstated three years after the Biden-Harris administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, have all but erased the basic human rights of Afghan women. They are now forbidden from speaking in public, showing their faces, or even looking at men who are not close relatives.
Vice President Kamala Harris has been notably silent on these developments. This is especially troubling given her self-proclaimed involvement in the disastrous withdrawal that ultimately led to the Taliban's resurgence in the country. Harris once took credit for advising President Biden on the Afghanistan withdrawal, emphasizing that she was "the last one in the room."
The silence from American feminists on this issue is equally disturbing. They took to the streets and college campuses to protest against Israel. However, they pushed a self-imposed mute button in response to the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule and Palestinian under Hamas rule. Afghan women are literally silenced by laws that forbid them from speaking in public and feminist elites are not saying a word.
This hypocrisy highlights a disturbing trend where Western feminists selectively choose the causes they support, often aligning their activism with political convenience rather than universal principles of human rights. The silence on the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban's brutal regime is not just disappointing—it’s a betrayal.
The recent luncheon hosted by BPALiveWire and The Yahweh Project at the National Press Club, titled Remember the Ladies, worked to bring attention to these critical issues. Inspired by Abigail Adams' famous plea to her husband to "remember the ladies" when drafting new laws, the event served as a stark reminder of the ongoing struggles for women's rights globally, particularly under regimes like Hamas and the Taliban, where educational and economic freedoms are virtually nonexistent.
American women must speak out and hold Vice President Harris and the feminist elites of the West accountable for their deadly silence.
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