Advocating for Afghan Women's Rights
Hello everyone.
I am a woman from Middle East. Do you think this is normal?
A woman talking behind this
small piece of cloth?
Do you really think this is part of our culture?
Do you really think that if I say I hate this
and I don't wanna wear it,
I'm insulting a culture, I'm causing Islamophobia?
Just recently, Australian
Parliament refused to talk
about banning burka. In Europe, in the West,
in America, in Canada, a lot of people
normalizing Taliban.
I am making this video simply to
address an issue that the whole world believe that
it's not their problem. Women in Afghanistan
face guns and bullet, get beaten up, and get
arrested for not covering their face.
Yes. I'm not talking just covering their hair.
They get arrested, killed,
they are in prison right now,
simply because they said they don't wanna wear burka.
Normalizing the Islamic Republic.
We've seen this movie before in Iran.
My women in Iran have been killed for showing their hair.
And now, women of Afghanistan, they have their morality police.
But what breaks my heart, they are alone.
They became like statistics.
Where is AOC? Where is liberal and
left? Where are those parliamentarians in
the West? They told us, "Shh, that cause
Islamophobia. We don't want to talk about banning
burka." I'm
here to be the voice of women of Afghanistan because they have been our
voice
when Mahsa Amini got killed. It's beyond
sad when my women in Iran have
faced guns and bullets, the first group that took to the streets
were
not women in the West, were women in Afghanistan.
And now, again, we are together, and I'm asking,
where is Women's March?
Why there is no Women's March for women of Iran and Afghanistan?
Simply for existence, women of Afghanistan
took to the street. Why there is no big rally and
Women's March to say, "Free women of Afghanistan"?
They are being kicked out from school.
They're being kicked out from their job, from everywhere.
A pregnant woman got arrested. A pregnant woman
got killed in Afghanistan. Why? Because she was not allowed to go to
hospital. She was not being in the
hospital with a man. She was alone. What a crime.
And now, everywhere in Europe, they're shaking the hand of
Taliban. They're opening the embassy towards
Taliban. The women of Afghanistan are the true
ambassadors of peace, the true ambassadors of their
nation. But unfortunately, now Taliban
are being welcomed in the West. Why?
Because some in the West believe that Taliban can be reformed. No.
We have seen this movie before, and I repeat that.
Taliban,
Islamic Republic, they are terrorist organization.
They are gender apartheid regimes, and they have to be
removed.
Right now, women of Afghanistan need you, every single of you.
Make your video, speak up, and be the voice of women of Afghanistan.
They need to be heard. They are powerful enough to represent
themselves, but they have a demand.
They want the rest of the world to stop legitimizing
Taliban. Let's be their
voice.
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