In today’s world, women’s rights are not measured based on the laws enacted by countries or the rights granted by Islam in the Islamic world, but rather, the criteria have changed. Women’s rights in the current world are adjusted based on the political transactions and interactions of powerful countries, and women’s rights are used as a political tool.
For decades, Palestine has been a victim of occupation, unequal wars, and violence through the support of the West and the Zionist regime. All Palestinian residents, especially women, are victims of systematic discrimination and are subjected to blind bombings, illegal detentions, and torture. No global power or superpower even issues a statement about preventing this; prevention is still a distant dream.
However, when an independent Islamic regime in Afghanistan takes measures to preserve women’s dignity and ensure all their Sharia rights, international organizations, countries, politicians, and other individuals view this issue through the Western lens and react strongly. Sometimes, the intensity of their reactions is so high that one might think, according to Western standards, the rights of women in Afghanistan are more important than those of Palestinian women and should be prioritized.
Media and international organizations also exhibit selective and dualistic behavior regarding women’s rights, aiming to distort the truth of this issue and use it as a tool for political pressure. Although international organizations established in the name of human and women’s rights claim to support women’s rights, they remain silent about the blind bombings of women and children in Palestine and raise a hue and cry about the provision of women’s fundamental rights in Afghanistan.
Generally, countries that are not under Western influence and do not bow to their policies face severe reactions for even minor actions, decisions, or personal violence against women, with international organizations holding sessions against them. However, crimes and violence against women in most countries of America and Europe are overlooked; this highlights the contradiction in the West’s approach to women’s issues.
When the republican regime was in power in Afghanistan, billions of dollars were sent to the country in the name of women under the watchful eyes of the West for two decades. However, despite such extensive aid, women faced injustice, corruption, and mistreatment. Neither the West nor international organizations reflected the realities nor did they propagate the false narratives about women’s conditions as they do now.
Foundations, media, politicians, and international organizations, especially the United Nations, must take steps to prevent injustice against women, eliminate double standards, silence, and behavioral contradictions. As an international organization that claims to uphold justice, it must genuinely focus on its mission and spare no effort in fulfilling it.
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