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Via Pink News // Taliban will ‘weed out and exterminate’ LGBT+ people in Afghanistan, warns exiled gay author

 

Gay Afghan author Nemat Sadat has warned that the Taliban will “weed out and exterminate” the LGBT+ community in Afghanistan following their seismic takeover.

There has been significant concern for the safety and wellbeing of women, girls and LGBT+ people in Afghanistan after the extremist militant group seized power.

The Taliban is expected to enforce its extreme interpretation of Sharia law across Afghanistan, which would see many women, LGBT+ people persecuted. Under it, queer people and women could be sentenced to death.

Speaking to PinkNews, Sadat said there is “no telling” how bad the situation will become for LGBT+ Afghans stuck in the country under Taliban rule.

Sadat and his family left Afghanistan when he was still a baby and they ultimately settled in the United States. In 2012, he returned to his birth city of Kabul to work as a professor of political science at the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF).

Widespread anti-LGBT+ sentiment meant that it was impossible for him to settle there. Warlords spread rumours that he was a practicing homosexual. Sadat reacted to the rumours by advocating for LGBT+ rights on campus and in his classroom.

Shortly afterwards, the Taliban got involved. The extremist group wrote a manifesto claiming AUAF had “become a bastion of gays and lesbians” because of Sadat’s activism, adding that he should be “targeted and killed”.

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Via FB // Nossa solidariedade as Mulheres afegãs

 

Nossa solidariedade as Mulheres afegãs

Ommolbahni Hassani, mais conhecida como Shamsia, é uma grafiteira afegã e professora de escultura na Universidade de Kabul. Ela tem popularizado a arte urbana nas ruas de Kabul. Shamsia expõe a sua arte digital e a sua arte urbana na Índia, Irão, Alemanha, Itália, Suíça e nas missões diplomáticas de Kabul.

Via Daily Dharma: Your Body Is a Teacher

 

Meditating with the body as our guide, we come to feel that, perhaps for the first time in our lives, we are in the presence of a being, our own body, that is wise, loving, flawlessly reliable, and worthy of our deepest devotion.

—Reggie Ray, “Touching Enlightenment”

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