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Can you explain why you'd attribute this to imperialism? Seems to me that women are finally fighting back, after taking shit from the extreme Islamists for too
by sriram_malhar 5y ago
Can you explain why you'd attribute this to imperialism? Seems to me that women are finally fighting back, after taking shit from the extreme Islamists for too long. Similar scenes were seen when Kurdish women took up arms against ISIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrxbyrnGo-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrxbyrnGo-o
- mensetmanusman 5y agoUS presence scared off people who stop women from being educated: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1266478 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna12... This may have occurred on some timeline of decades to centuries without imperialism (militarily or culturally).
- sien 5y agoThe US backed Islamist rebels against the Soviet Union, thus destabilizing Afghanistan and leading to the ~40 years of war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
- SkyMarshal 5y agoThe US and USSR didn't start ~40yrs of war in Afghanistan. Afghans have been at war with either invaders or themselves for thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan