‘War on women’: Taliban curbs on Afghan females a ‘crime’
Al JazeeraAPR 2023
The Spin
Narrative A
These remarks from an extremist theocrat are a slap in the face to the women of Afghanistan, who have had their rights rolled back startlingly. Despite promises to be less extreme than previous iterations of the Taliban, the ruling government has increasingly erased women from every domain of public life. These comments are a transparent attempt to try and rehabilitate the image of the Taliban and garner international legitimacy, which no nation has so far fallen for.
Narrative B
Every nation has the right to govern itself under a system accepted by the population. It was the destructive foreign intervention, not the Taliban, that forced the nation into such dire straits. The oppression that women face is pre-Islamic cultural prejudices, and it is the Taliban that is devoted to eradicating them. Instead of attacking a nation amid a humanitarian crisis, the world would do well to account for the indignities they continue to inflict on the people of Afghanistan.