The Prisons Minister in the new Taliban government says amputations will resume but not necessarily in public: executions were a choice offered to the victims family who could administer a single shot to the head or accept blood money in recompense for the crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...taliban-enforcer-says-amputations-will-resumehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2...taliban-enforcer-says-amputations-will-resume
This all seems barbaric and medieval to Western liberal eyes but who are we to criticise when women feel unable to walk the streets safely in this country?
A primary school teacher takes a five minute walk through a park to meet someone and never arrives. Murdered by a stranger for some mad reason or other.
So many instances of injustice in this country make me wonder if we have a right to criticise a regime who have suffered for forty years of foreign intervention and had a parting shot of a family blown to pieces by a drone strike on a man 'acting suspiciously' who was simply taking meals to his community. Madness.
Isn't it time we removed the mote from our own eyes before judging other cultures?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...taliban-enforcer-says-amputations-will-resumehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2...taliban-enforcer-says-amputations-will-resume
This all seems barbaric and medieval to Western liberal eyes but who are we to criticise when women feel unable to walk the streets safely in this country?
A primary school teacher takes a five minute walk through a park to meet someone and never arrives. Murdered by a stranger for some mad reason or other.
So many instances of injustice in this country make me wonder if we have a right to criticise a regime who have suffered for forty years of foreign intervention and had a parting shot of a family blown to pieces by a drone strike on a man 'acting suspiciously' who was simply taking meals to his community. Madness.
Isn't it time we removed the mote from our own eyes before judging other cultures?