The Truth About How The Taliban Treats Women Is Extremely Horrific

An Afghan woman who was brutally tortured by the Taliban, said Monday that the Islamist militant group feeds women’s bodies to animals, treating women as “flesh to be battered.”

“It’s tough for the world to imagine what we built in the past 20 years, We built dreams. Now they are gone. It’s all over for us. Women who work with the government or police were being hunted and threatened even before the Taliban had taken over the country,” Khater told India’s News 18. “Now, the concern has gone beyond letting women work. At this point, I am scared if they would leave these women alive. They don’t just kill women. They make animals feed on their bodies. They are a blot on Islam.”

“They (Taliban) first torture us and then discard our bodies to show as a specimen of punishment. Sometimes our bodies are fed to dogs. I was lucky I survived it,” she said. “One has to live in Afghanistan under the Taliban to even imagine what hell has befallen on women, children and minorities here.”

“In the eyes of the Taliban, women are not living, breathing human beings, but merely some meat and flesh to be battered.”

As she returned home from work, Three Taliban insurgent fighters shot 33-year-old Khatera eight times in the upper body. Afterward, they gouged her eyes out with a knife, in October 2020, according to India’s News 18. Khatera was former police personnel and was two months pregnant at the time of her attack.

Khatera’s father, a former Taliban fighter, was involved in planning the attack after he’d learned that his daughter was working, according to the outlet.

After the Taliban breached Kabul on Sunday, the force promised to employ women for governmental roles, however, it also intended to ban women from receiving an education past 12-years of age and from being employed, the outlet reported.

Under the previous Taliban rule, women were not allowed to leave their homes without a male escort. They were required to cover their faces with a burqa or face punishment. Women were not allowed education or employment, nor were they allowed to watch television or listen to music.

Since being attacked, Khatera lives in Delhi with her husband and toddler. She continues to undergo treatment for her serious injuries, India 18 reported. Khatera said that women are killed by the Taliban for disobeying rules and are denied basic medical care.

“The Taliban don’t allow women to visit male doctors, and at the same time, don’t let women study and work,” she added. “So, then what is left for a woman? Left to die? Even if you think we are just reproductive machines, there is not common sense but pure hate. How does a woman deliver her child according to the dictum of these men with guns without medical care?”