You know who else is to blame? The media promoting mass hysteria. People living in the West watching too much CNN have been bombarding my phone with messages to leave ASAP.
In this city of 6 million people, the vast majority are going about their day as usual.
Sleeping on cold rocks for 4 days, being thrown pork to eat, having a gun pointed at by US soldiers. Reality of conditions inside airport where Afghans are told they are being kept safe by soldiers.
The problem was that they had such a nice, hospitable experience with Muslims that they incorrectly assumed pajeet India would also be like that.
around poojeets don't be at ease
In other news, I decided to invest in a local Afghan butcher which will go to pay rent for a new shop. Our local Taliban at the police station were nice enough to draft the Islamic contract for us. Please pray for Afghans who are determined to stay and build this country.
Scenes from Kabul right now.
Some curious looks from men like "shouldn't she be scared to come out?"😅
Meanwhile passed numerous armed Talibs who haven't even glanced at me.
Female spaces are all open. Beauty salons in my neighborhood (next to the Taliban base) are open and nobody is stopping the women from doing hair and makeup. Women's park is open. Even women's bath houses are open. Nobody wants to be honest that the issue really is gender mixing.
Went to the doctor the other day and gave a list of blood work/labs I wanted done.
"You can't just ask for labs"
"Why not? I want to know my [iron/b12/d] levels"
"It's expensive, your insurance won't cover it"
"I don't mind paying"
This conversation went on for minutes.
I was living very comfortably in the US. 165k salary a year, remote work, everything gets mailed to your doorstep, hot showers, fast internet, etc
Problem is it's a very soulless life.
Even though life is "harder" in Afghanistan, I'm the happiest I've ever been.
@janeygak
Very interesting!
Hijrah to the current Afghanistan sounds like an oxymoron.
What kind of a bad life were you living that made you decide to immigrate to the Taliban?
Walked passed Afghan boys dramatically retelling the story of looters taken down by locals and the Taliban. Everywhere you go, people are excitedly talking about how criminals, who had been freely terrorizing Kabul for months, are finally getting the punishments they deserve.
Since I started wearing hijab as opposed to the loose headscarf that shows hair, it was my own family here in Kabul who were pressuring me *not* to wear it.
I can't imagine the hate these other women wearing niqab get, especially from liberal Afghans. May Allah reward them.
I left my surrogate home in the West for the land my ancestors called motherland. I am starting from zero but i can't think of anything more worth it. I arrived empty handed except for the hope in my heart. Salam, my home.
Qari Samiullah Nafaz, the head of the Taliban's anti-narcotics campaign, was killed in Kunduz.
While unknown gunmen killed a Taliban intelligence officer in Parwan last night.
In recent weeks, the assassination of Taliban members has increased in different provinces.
What were their accomplishments from the last 20 years when girls were being raped by their sports coach, solicited for sex in government offices, lynched in broad daylight for preaching Islam, and forced to go through govt virginity tests?
More than a third of female Afghan MPs are now in Greece. They’re working on a ‘parallel Parliament’ that will keep fighting for women in
#Afghanistan
. If all goes according to plan, it will be based out of Toronto, where most in this picture are headed.
In order to be a truly sovereign state, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan must:
- not join the UN nor allow their agencies to operate in the country
- never borrow money
- adopt a bitcoin standard
I feel incredibly grateful to live a simple, peaceful life here in Kabul. A life where I can practice my religion and raise my children the way I want. Praise be to God.
If anyone wonders why no third world country has ever gotten out of third world status it's because keeping them indebted and under the control of their creditors has always been the point of the IMF.
The IMF sees risks to their financial control over the developing world.
#Bitcoin
gives developing countries a chance to build their economies on a sound basis and get rid of their dependency on debt which bigger countries use to control them.
#Bitcoin
is hope.
I have left my home and went to the bazaar, the park, and the Taliban police station without a male (mahram).
I feel protected because thieves and kidnappers who were previously operating freely, are now punished for their crimes. Even ordinary men aren't catcalling anymore.
Yes Modaser, I wouldn't be in another country if a Talib hadn't invaded my home and was sleeping in my bed at this very moment. I wouldn't have to keep fleeing my country if they hadn't terrorized my city, my home or my family. 1/
Interesting. When Taliban said the reason they're stopping undocumented single men from crowding at the airport is because of ISIS, everyone (especially journalists) cried that human rights were being violated.
TB-supporters downplayed the risk of attacks on Kabul Airport bcz it undermined the narrative that the Taliban could secure Afghanistan.
Taliban cannot govern if they believe their own PR.
Ex-gov learned this the hard way. You can't ignore facts just bcz they make u look bad.
I have decided to look into opening my own
#Bitcoin
exchange (sarafi) shop in Kabul. If you are experienced in this and can provide guidance please reach out.
American service member gives water to
#Afghan
children while they wait to be allowed to enter the base. It’s baking hot and many people have been outside for a day or two. No bathrooms, and the entire area reeks of urine and rotting garbage.
#afghanistan
#AfghanistanCrisis
Today I went to the Children's Hospital in Kabul to distribute some charity but also to investigate the causes of malnourishment in young children in Afghanistan. The truth is absolutely tragic.
#Kabul
evening encounters: a little girl is staring at a Talib who just sat down for a glass of juice.
I wonder about her... her future, her prospects, the opportunities she will have during this new regime.
#Afghanistan
a travelvlog couple trying to visit every country in the world decided to go to India as their latest destination.
11 hours ago they announced they were at the hospital because he had been beaten up and she had been gang raped by 7 men.
Been waiting 20 minutes while this poor lady speaks with customer service because they misspelled the receiver's name.
Yes, that's a phone and that's how you send fiat to another country. For the low price of a 10% fee.
@JohnSimpsonNews
>"people like this"
>posts photo of someone who looks like the average afghan man
Are only suit wearing kleptocrats allowed to run the country?
Lady, I didn't leave my house to ask for your medical advice or opinions. I came because it's the only way to get these labs. Just write the stupid order already.
The idea of financial planning began with the raising of livestock. Why? It required an extraordinary level of mathematical sophistication.
A tablet from ancient Ur:
America thought the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan would bow down to them with their threats of sanctions but they don't know Allāh is the Provider. May Allāh swt bless Afghanistan and all the Muslim lands.
For years I sent $10 worth of bitcoin every other week to popup the Nokia phone of a family friend in an Afghan jail. Without it she would have had no way to hear her children's voices and how they were.
I don't know how much that bitcoin is worth today and I don't really care.
I spent $50 of
#bitcoin
on groceries in 2015. It's worth >$3000 at today's price and will likely be worth much more in the future.
Eat ramen and bike everywhere so you can stack sats
Unsure where to buy bitcoin from? Comparison of buying .5 btc from
@GeminiDotCom
and
@coinbase
from exact same time:
Gemini: $15383/btc + $19.23 fee
vs
CB: $15,545/btc + $115.81 fee
comes to $7888.39 and $7710.94
$177.45 price difference for the same product
Acting Taliban Minister of Higher Education:
Girls and boys will no longer be able to study together in universities and will continue to study in separate classes in accordance with Islamic law.
Muslims, please stop telling me that so and so mufti said bitcoin is haram. Learn to think for yourselves. A lot of these people have no business issuing fatwas on financial topics.
It's the very governments that rely on their own worthless fiat who buy these dollar scholars.
During the previous pro-US Kabul regime, plainclothes police once arrested me when I was alone trying to get home before dark. At the police station they tried to exhort sexual favors from me.
I think this was a tactic commonly used on women, especially supposed prostitutes.
In other news, I decided to invest in a local Afghan butcher which will go to pay rent for a new shop. Our local Taliban at the police station were nice enough to draft the Islamic contract for us. Please pray for Afghans who are determined to stay and build this country.
One of the reasons that so many Afghans are delusional and pro-occupation is thanks to the introduction of Facebook. It's basically "the internet" here, since the real internet is unaffordable, people get those unlimited Facebook data plans for their phones.
good to know all it took was some fake news about pakistan to finally wake up some afghans who slept through cia death squads, US drones, and never ending corruption
Nobody wants to hear the stories where women are going to work as usual, are acting civil, and just trying to live normal lives. All the attention is on a few loudmouths who probably don't even have jobs.
Afghan women in Kabul: hold conference discussing their grievances with previous regime; support for Islamic law
Diaspora: heres a selfie of me to prove im more afghan than u
If you want to know the extent that Afghanistan was corrupt: I wasn't allowed to join the national women's chess team because the head of Olympics brought in his female relatives who barely knew how to play chess and at the Olympiad in Turkey missed their games to go shopping.
@livebeef
@jilliancyork
Who gets to decide who is a 'fucking Nazi'? People justified attacking me and my friends by calling us Nazis for wanting to see a speech.
Because the previous regime allowed the abuse, rape and harassment of women whilst parading itself as a success for women's advancement when in reality it was a small cabal of women who benefited from the money pouring into the country or from political positions.
Embarrassing.
Why are Muslims allowing themselves to be subjugated by these enemies of Islam? Compromising their religion for what? Some stupid secular education.
This is a lie. The huge influx of people into Kabul from the provinces was because everyone and their grandmother were trying to get on those free flights to the US.
I used to believe I would have many children, pass on generational wealth, and leave a name for myself in this world. I never felt truly satisfied or happy.
Ever since I decided I only want to leave this world with my good deeds, for the first time in my life I'm truly content.
Women are teaching primary schools, providing healthcare as nurses and doctors, and managing offices. In the school that I may work at, the "mudira" office manager is still going to work and says she is in constant contact with the local IEA authorities through WhatsApp.
I have created a Telegram channel for people living in Afghanistan to buy and sell
#Bitcoin
. The fact that we have Hawala money transfers makes exchanging very easy.
DM me if you want to be invited.
I visited the local police station near me and spent less than a minute explaining the situation. The Taliban said they would immediately go to let the park maintainer know to open it so women and children could enter it once again.
Went to Mandawi Bazaar (
#Kabul
), packed as usual and found a honey 🐝🍯 shop. Asked for the best one to which the shopkeeper brought me this honey hidden in the back in a detergent bottle, dead bees still in it. Bought half a kilo.