Biden Just Left 14 Million Women To Be Abused Under Taliban Rule

There’s one major difference between Taliban 2001 and Taliban 2021: While the ideology may still be stuck in the Bronze Age, the PR has come a long way. As NPR noted, “The Taliban Is Attempting To Present A More Subdued…

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“Can you imagine this?”

The woman, who was referred to only as Muskan, said she left her job and the country after numerous threats from the insurgent group, which took over the country two weekends ago.

“When we were there, we received numerous warnings. If you go to work, you are under threat, your family is under threat. After one warning, they would stop giving any warning,” she said.

Other reports came from Westerners who had done work on the ground in the country.

Liza Schuster is a professor at the City, University of London who has done fieldwork for years on the ground in Afghanistan. She told Sky News that Taliban insurgents had “entered people’s homes” and were “compiling lists of unmarried women between 15 and 45 as suitable wives for their fighters.”

The Taliban fighters were also “forcing women to wear the burqa, and if they leave without a , they are being sent home again and may be beaten.”

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Former Afghan judge Najla Ayoubi told Sky News, meanwhile, that she’d been talking to women who described “bad behavior and violence against women.”

This included a woman in northern Afghanistan who had been “put on fire because she was accused of bad cooking for Taliban fighters.”

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“They are forcing people to give them food and cook them food,” Ayoubi said, according to the New York Post.

“Also there are so many young women in the past few weeks being shipped into neighboring countries in coffins to be used as sex slaves.”

Even before the Taliban took over the entire country, however, The Wall Street Journal reported “Afghans pouring into Kabul and those still in Taliban-held areas” said “Taliban commanders have demanded that communities turn over unmarried women to become ‘wives’ for their fighters — a form of sexual violence, human-rights groups say.”

There are 14 million women in Afghanistan, according to NBC News. They’ve been left behind to be treated as chattel — forcibly married, butchered and raped even after death. On Saturday, Reuters’ headline said it all: “As Kabul turmoil mounts, Taliban’s PR offensive falters.”

The real news should have been that anyone bought it in the first place — and that President Joe Biden didn’t do more to stop it.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.