Posted on 08/20/2021 3:38:41 AM PDT by Libloather
LONDON – The former captain of the Afghan women’s soccer team has urged players to delete social media, erase their public identities and burn their uniforms for their safety now that the country is again under Taliban rule.
Copenhagen-based Khalida Popal told Reuters in a video interview on Wednesday that the militants had killed, raped and stoned women in the past and female soccer players were scared of what the future might hold.
The co-founder of the Afghan women’s soccer league said she had always used her voice to encourage young women “to stand strong, to be bold, to be visible,” but now she had a different message.
“Today I’m calling them and telling them, take down their names, remove their identities, take down their photos for their safety. Even I’m telling them to burn down or get rid of your national team uniform,” she said.
“And that is painful for me, for someone as an activist who stood up and did everything possible to achieve and earn that identity as a women’s national team player.
“To earn that badge on the chest, to have the right to play and represent our country, how much we were proud.”
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
Joined immediately by Megan Rapinoe.
This is the stark reality in the ‘stan hood. Anyone slightly supportive of western culture will be killed.
Hopefully Rapinoe will burn her uniform while she’s still wearing it.
Women afghan journalists have now been banned .
So now what about foreign women journalists
Their lives are in danger
The only thing pelosi knows about USAF transport is that the USAF does not like her using their transport aircraft as a personal airline for her and her family.
“Paging Megan Rapinoe. Megan Rapinoe please pick up the beige courtesy phone and stand for real justice!”
That’s what people said about Trump supporters.
Run to the hills
Run for your life
I wonder if the Taliban will have them ‘take a knee’ before whipping and then shooting them?
And these women can thanks their ‘sisters in arms’ in the US, as they are the ones responsible for Biden being installed in the White House.
“Run to the hills
Run for your life”
Them are some SERIOUS hills in Afghanistan (and gorgeous scenery)...but even well-honed athletes will have their hands full trying to get out of there. Not to mention being a woman without a male relative, much less any male, won’t go over too well in the tribal areas. There are also a lot of cliffs in Afghanistan...that may be their best option, at this point.
What a wonderful suggestion!
Democrats hate women to their very core.
“Democrats hate women to their very core.”
Absolutely, but they are excellent useful idiots to help them achieve power.
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