Imran Khan is delighted at the Taliban win.
A day after the Taliban seized power in Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani fled the war-torn country, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said Afghans have “broken the chains of slavery in the country”.
Unless, of course, you think women are people, and included under the label “Afghans.” For women and girls the chains of slavery have very much been re-forged.
“When you adopt someone’s culture you believe it to be superior and you end up becoming a slave to it. It is more difficult to free your mind from mental slavery. Afghans have broken the shackles of slavery,” Imran Khan said.
Maybe. But “someone’s culture” is a complicated thing. Imperialism is bad, colonialism is bad, but drastic suppression of women is also bad. Imran Khan should maybe give that a thought.
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5 responses to “Whose chains?”
He has given it a thought. And rejected the very IDEA. After all, Allah would not approve, no?
Well cultures are at least two types. Ones that respect the human rights of the people and those that do not.
It is too obvious which ones are superior.
Khan had a reputation as a playboy when he was a cricketer. stories of drug taking, alcohol, clubbing and womanising abound. So I guess he can claim to have first hand experience of being a slave to someone else’s culture. Except he doesn’t. He denies that past and the claims of his behaviour then, instead claiming he was always a good and devout muslim. that change occurred when he entered politics. Many in the west assumed he would be a liberal western friendly leader. instead he’s demonstrated that he’s a cynical populist. The man’s a lizard in my opinion.
Of course, islam CAN’T be an ‘adopted culture’ because…
Funny how proggys bitch about ‘imperialism’ while maintaining complete amnesia about Arab, Ottoman, Persian, Moghul, Russian, Mongol imperialism.
JtD #4,
Right. We can perhaps add to that list Pakistani imperialism in Afghanistan under Imran Khan.