No, the above headline is not from the satire site, The Babylon Bee.
The Taliban, the brutal terrorist organization that rules Afghanistan with an iron, Islamist fist, on Sunday demanded its representatives be allowed to attend all future United Nations global climate talks after attending COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijani, where its officials were welcomed as "guests" for the first time.
Matiul Haq Khalis, the director general of Afghanistan's National Environmental Protection Agency, said at a Sunday press conference (emphasis mine):
We participated in the conference this year so that we could raise the voice of the nation about the issues we are facing, what the needs of the people are, we must share these things with the world.
Hold the terrorist bus. "What the needs of the people are." Seriously?
Last time I checked, women were people.
Yet, according to an August report from Human Rights Watch, the Taliban in early August published outrageous new laws on “vice and virtue” that require women to completely cover their bodies, including their faces, in public at all times:
In issuing the law, the Taliban claimed that women's voices could lead to vice, referring to their voices as aurat (a term in Sharia, or Islamic law, that signifies a man or woman’s intimate parts, which must be covered).
Reducing their voices and bodies to things and sources of sin is an egregious act of sexualizing and objectifying women. These laws attack women’s personhood and autonomy, contributing to their further erasure from society. The Taliban have also announced that women should not be heard speaking, singing, or reciting aloud in public.
When the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan three years ago, some were optimistic that “version 2.0” would be different and more open to women’s rights and human rights, as if their initial rule from 1996 to 2001 was not already defined by oppression and misery for the people of Afghanistan, particularly women and girls.
For much of the international community, it seemed the Taliban’s past record, marked by unrelenting repression, flogging, stoning, and public executions, was easily forgotten.
I suspect many of the related details over the years have been far too graphic to report.
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So again, are we to believe that Taliban leaders demand to be included in all future UN climate talks because they care so much about the needs of their people, or that their demands "might" be based on securing a slice of the massive wealth redistribution that Western nations eagerly hand out to "developing" countries, under the guise of pretend-anthropomorphic climate change? If you believe the former, hit me up about a good deal on a bridge.
Khalis also said in his statement that the Afghan delegation had meetings with “19 different organizations and governments,” including with delegations from Russia, Qatar, Azerbaijan and Bangladesh. Interesting.
Raise your hand if you're surprised that President Joe Biden didn't instruct the American delegation to meet with Taliban delegation, given how he handed Afghanistan to the terrorist organization on a silver platter.
The 'Brilliance' of the United Nations
I might not be among those "Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN" folks, but I'm close. My opposition is based on the old adage, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Here an example of why:
The United Nations has also called for action to help Afghanistan build resilience and for the country's participation in international talks.
Developed countries have committed to providing $100 billion per year in climate finance through 2025 to help developing nations prepare for worsening climate impacts and wean their economies off fossil fuels.
Setting aside the climate change debate for a minute, and this may sound harsh to some, but if a country is still "developing" -- meaning it still hasn't yet figured out how to develop -- chances are it isn't going to happen.
A Bit of Idiocy From the Legacy Media
I can't wrap this one up without revisiting a bit related idiocy from CBS News. In August 2021, the network ridiculously blamed climate change for strengthening the Taliban, leading to their takeover of Afghanistan. No, really:
CBS News does not bother explaining how “drought” and “flood-ravaged soil,” which have been a constant in Afghanistan for ages, are suddenly the result of “climate change. News has blamed “climate change” for abetting the Taliban in their rise to power in Afghanistan, insisting that global warming has forced farmers into debt and into the arms of the Taliban.
In a risible report that has been compared to spoofs in the Babylon Bee and the Onion, CBS News asserted last week that Afghan farmers struggle to maintain productive crops and thus have to borrow funds to survive.
“When Afghans can’t pay off lenders, the Taliban often steps in to sow government resentment,” CBS News declared in its airtight “gotcha” report.
CBS of course forgot to explain how “drought” and “flood-ravaged soil,” which have been a constant in Afghanistan for ages, are suddenly the result of so-called climate change. Then again, the refusal to take into account such facts is the fundamental fly in the climate activists' global warming ointment.
As for the Taliban, they not only know exactly what they're doing; they also know they'll ultimately get exactly what they want.
