The Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has announced plans to officially reinstate the barbaric practice of stoning women to death for adultery.
Speaking directly to Western democracies via a voice message aired on Taliban-controlled state media, Akhundzada defiantly proclaimed, “You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death. But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public.”
These chilling words serve as the strongest confirmation yet of the Taliban’s intent to revert to the draconian policies that defined their previous rule in the 1990s.
#Shocking
The deputy of the Taliban's Supreme Court says that the Taliban regime's courts across Afghanistan have issued 175 qisas (punishable by retaliation), 37 stoning and 4 sentences of knocking down a wall on the convicts in the past 20 months, since the Taliban return to… pic.twitter.com/b4vMlXna8d— Natiq Malikzada (@natiqmalikzada) May 5, 2023
Despite reports of the group’s continued extreme abuse against women, including a horrific 2015 incident in which a 19-year-old woman was stoned to death for allegedly engaging in premarital sex with her fiancé, the Taliban’s latest statement leaves no doubt about their commitment to enforcing these inhumane practices on a larger scale.
Since Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban in August 2021, the country has witnessed a resurgence of capital punishments and public executions.
According to a U.N. report from May 2023, 175 individuals had been sentenced to various punishments, with 37 people facing stoning, over 100 sentenced to lashings for “crimes against God,” and four others condemned to have walls collapsed upon them.
The international community has repeatedly called on the Taliban to respect human rights, particularly those of women, which have been severely curtailed since the terrorist group’s return to power.
In Afghanistan the Taliban has banned women from divorcing their husbands, even if they're violent.
A girl sold to a man aged 13, divorced him & remarried. The Taliban are searching for her as she is seen as an adulterer.
Stoning is the punishment.https://t.co/g7fJr7W9oC
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) March 7, 2023
In response to international condemnation, Akhundzada defiantly stated, “These are all against your democracy, but we will continue doing it. We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.”
The mullah further claimed that women’s rights were incompatible with the Taliban’s extreme interpretation of Islam, asserting that they are “against sharia and clerics’ opinions, the clerics who toppled Western democracy.”
So maybe, just maybe surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban and leaving them billions in weapons was not a good idea.
The people of Afghanistan have Joe Biden to thank for this.
For all of the Democrats talk about women’s right they in fact don’t care about anything but power and control.