Feeling devastated after seeing this news about Afghanistan

I’d be happy to welcome women and girls directly from there.

Set them up with English lessons and get them into work and childcare/education depending on age.

Give them their freedoms as best as we can.

The men can fix their country so it’s safe for their educated return one day maybe.

Not just dumped in ghettos though or in little pockets with no integration. Spread out far and wide for everyone’s best interests.

Oh God not this trite tripe again. Because, unlike with Israel, our government neither arms the Taliban nor allies ourselves to them.

You do understand that the point of marching in the UK is to influence British government policy yes? Are you suggesting that we march to encourage our government to go to war in Afghanistan again? Or what are you proposing we ask them to do?

A reminder that the UN invited the Taliban to meet with them - and sent all women out of the room at the Taliban’s request.

And I wonder, if they had to choose, if they would rather live in Afghanistan or the US, since they're so critical of it.

A fair old portion of that money went straight into the bank accounts of corrupt Afghan Government officials, meaning the Afghan Armed Forces were nowhere near as well equipped or trained as they should have been, and also that the personnel themselves often hadn't been paid in months. It's nowhere near as simple as simply "running away", and that's nothing but an ignorant, offensive statement.

Afghan soldiers who hadn't been paid in months also couldn't feed their families, so its no wonder at all the idea of an Afghan armed resistance to the Taliban was only ever notional and never going to materialise. There was never an Afghan military you could describe as a credible fighting force, morale was non-existent, and expecting men to risk their lives for an utterly corrupt State that hadn't paid them in months is laughable.

He may not prostitiue them out

But he can sell them into temporary hour long marriages.

Explain to me how they could be safely sent then? I mean, we could set up reception points in our embassies in Pakistan, and India where they could apply for asylum without having to travel thousands of miles in the hands of smugglers but we dont, do we?

I suspect most on this thread would be a damn sight less welcoming to Afghan women if they could actually get here.

It was Democratic presidential Carter who funded the rise of the Taliban - then the Mujahideen - as part of a proxy war with Russia.

No Jews, no news.

@Twinandatwoyearold

to answer some of your questions:

homosexuality is not permissible in Islam. Therefore the religious leaders in Afghanistan are against bacha bazi.

however a religion being against something does not stop it happening. Christianity is often seen these days as a “peaceful” religion yet in medieval times bishops rode into battle with knights and the concession was that they didn’t have a bladed weapon as they were not supppsed to draw blood. So instead they carried maces and other such blunt hitting instruments.

child marriage is permitted in Islam with the canonical example being the marriage of the Prophet Mohammed to Aisha who was somewhere between six and nine at the time.

slavery is also permitted in Islam with the proviso that no Muslim may be enslaved. The Taliban have explicitly permitted slavery in the new laws introduced in Jan 2026.

A Muslim man is permitted to have sex with any of his female slaves. This is known as the doctrine of “what my right hand possesses”. He may not prostitiue them out to others, but he can sell them to anyone he chooses.

Exactly. Where are the protests, the marches, the chants? Why are Arab billionaires not rescuing these women and children? Why are people in the uk who happily March for Palestine not doing the same for Afghanistan?

Comments like that show why so many people in Britain covered up Pakistani rape gangs. Grim.

@Borrowerdale i agree and I am pleased that so many people now see through BBC propaganda.

If only they (the bbc) were so vocal about the thousands of girls raped in the U.K.

This! Fuckers the lot of them.

The BBC trying to generate sympathy for men selling their five yeast old daughters to paedophiles to be raped as sex slaves every day for the rest of their, probably short, lives. Disgusting!

No all the men fleaing what ever country they are fleeing leaving their women and children to fend for themselves are the threat towards the women and children which is why they cannot be sent instead 👍🏻

The government before Taliban had every resource given to them to be successful. But they were more interested in enriching themselves than actually governing the country.
By then it was not our war.

Because think of the menz and the injustices THEY go through, with people on internet forums calling out their misogyny, boo hoo

That poster knows exactly what you meant but thought sardonic jokes about rape would be a good way of getting their nasty little point across

The girls are not sold "because of hunger", they are sold because of men.

Don’t be so pathetically churlish. How dare you use this topic to score cheap points

That is actually an offensive comment. Disgraceful. To make light of the act of rape. Shameful.

I dont mean MY daughters i mean the reports of young Britsh girls who have been assaulted by these brutes who have entered the country illegally

Predominantly Afghan men.

Really? Are you being sarcastic about rape. Or is this genuine?

Really? Only Afgan men are a threat to Afgan women and girls? You talk as though the trafficking and abuse of females is unknown outside its borders.