In what might be the most laughable moment of the Biden presidency to date, Secretary of State Tony Blinken proclaimed yesterday that the new Taliban regime in Afghanistan must include women.
Speaking at a news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass, Blinken declared that the Taliban will not earn legitimacy from the world if it does not have an inclusive government. Presumably, that means it must include not just women but any homosexuals that haven’t been tossed from a roof in Kabul.
But possibly even worse than excluding women from the government, the Taliban regime has painted over the “I Can’t Breathe” mural depicting the deceased George Floyd.
Shockingly, Taliban rulers seem unlikely to permit Afghanistan to a hotbed of leftist American propaganda, and apparently don’t share the “values” of the globalist regime that installed the government the Islamic fanatics just defeated.
No Women!?
What Blinken thought would happen when the Taliban defeated the U.S.-installed regime, one can only imagine. But he made clear yesterday that he and the “world” are aghast.
“Yesterday, the Taliban named a new interim government,” he began in the presser with Mass. “We’re assessing the announcement, but despite professing that a new government would be inclusive, the announced list of names consists exclusively of individuals who are members of the Taliban or their close associates, and no women.”
Continued Blinken:
We’re also concerned by the affiliations and track records of some of those individuals. We understand the Taliban has presented this as a caretaker cabinet. We will judge it, and them, by its actions. The international community has made clear its expectation that the Afghan people deserve an inclusive government.
Noting that he and the foreign minister met with other world leaders to deliberate over Afghanistan, Blinken said they expect the Taliban to make a place for minorities.
“We also discussed how we will hold the Taliban to their commitments and obligations to let people travel freely; to respect their basic rights, including women and minorities,” he said.
How the U.S. and the world “will hold the Taliban to their commitments and obligations,” Blinken didn’t say. But given what the Taliban did to murals that featured leftist messaging, it appears the new regime in Kabul is relatively unconcerned by anything the globalists might do.
Bye, Bye, George
The Taliban have painted Islamic slogans over various murals in Kabul.
Among them was the one dedicated to Floyd, who died of a fentanyl overdose as Minneapolis police restrained him last year. The mural featured a protester with a poster of Floyd along with his immortal last words: “I Can’t Breathe.”
Next to it was a similar poster that showed people drowning. It read, “we can’t breathe.”
A group called the Artlords painted the murals. Their goal was “transforming the aggressive face of Kabul, spoiled by blast walls, into a pleasant visual experience.” They hoped to “pave the way for social transformation and behavioral change through employing the soft power of art and culture as a non-intrusive approach.”
“These murals not only belong to me or the Artlords, they belong to the people of Afghanistan because for each of them we invited 50 to 200 people to paint them,” Artlords founder Omaid Sharifi told the Guardian. “These are about the wishes, demands and the asks of Afghan people. It was their voice on these walls. These murals were against corruption and were pushing for transparency.”
The new regime has a big job ahead to cover up the Artlords work. The group has painted 2,100 murals.
As for the Floyd mural, the Taliban is apparently unafraid that Black Lives Matter might organize a movement to have the group kicked off of social media or charged with a hate crime in the World Court.
As far as anyone knows, BLM activists have not volunteered to lead a punitive, boots-on-the-ground military strike to punish the offense.
