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Terry Glavin: When it comes to woke politics, anyone can play the game. Just ask the Taliban
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Afghan women clad in burkas beg under a wall mural in Kabul on April 19, 2021. According to a recent editorial in a Taliban publication, cries for women s rights are a
According to a recently published editorial, the thing about Western-world feminism that you probably don’t know is that it does not owe its origin to the 19th-century first-wave suffragists, abolitionists and socialists of song and story, but rather to men specifically European imperialists and colonialists. From “time immemorial,” the invaders of Muslim lands have always put ideas about women’s equality to crude use in a “colonialist saviour complex” that has persisted in justifying imperial conquests around the world, most recently and notoriously in the case of Afghanistan. “It is typical colonialist nonsense,” the editoria ....

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