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Increase in rape among family members, friends setting up
Now, when you look at the various friends to be raped, grandfathers sodomizing their grand kids.
things that have happened and are
still happening in Afghanistan, that Police officials doing the unthinkable which, most of the time,
is, the war for twenty years, the is linked back to troubles at home.
death and destruction of lives and
properties that came with that war, by these cries of woe and fear, not extension, families. We cannot hide
how the US army left exactly after supposed to be, first and foremost, our heads under our pillows and
the twentieth year, and the result- humans? Second, fathers and third, pretend that nothing is wrong with
ing fear of what might happen to grandfathers, brothers, uncles, neph- our families.
Afghans now that the Taliban has ews and even cousins of these same And the earlier we own up to the
taken over the government, you people, especially the women and fact that something is wrong, the
will tend to get confused about young girls who are crying to leave earlier we start to make amends
the whole thing. And you might be the country for fear of what might before it’s too late to do so.
right to be. But is it really confusing happen now that the Taliban have
if you can just dust off your head taken over power? Please enlight- How do you justify the recent case
from the many smoke screens and en me if I am wrong. Or are these of killings of Kenyans by the Ken-
then take a look again, especially Taliban demons wrapped in the yan police officers for not wearing
from the perspective of the many cloaks of religious extremism whose masks or that they were caught out-
evils the US has done against many intentions are so dark and bloody side at curfew hours? It’s unthink-
nations of the world. Why? The that even the very people that they able. How does the life of a person
story is the same, always. claim they have been fighting for the equal face mask or curfew, when a
last two decades are afraid of them mask can be removed and a curfew
They, the American government, and won’t want to have anything to completely and immediately sus-
create the regimes in these coun- do with them? pended if the President says so, but
tries to facilitate their selfish access the lives lost can never be regained?
to their mineral resources, just like I have read various stories of the It’s still unthinkable. What exactly
they created the Taliban against the Taliban and their brutality, espe- are we becoming in the name of
Russians and then when the owners cially with things pertaining to their whatever reasons we have for doing
of the resources decide it’s enough religion and what they call morality. the things we do.
and they want their land back, the The women and children that are
US come up with “fool’s stories” crying may just be right to do so, Let me reiterate the words of the
as reasons to attack and destroy. It especially now that they the Taliban song of Prince which says
happened with Saddam Hussein are already trying to bring back Sha- “Did you hear about the new pill? It feels
of Iraq, Gaddafi of Lybia and now ria law into Afghanistan. like sex!
Afghanistan. Guaranteed to thrill with no ill side-effects
What’s happening with families A pill that will stop the wrinkles, a pill
But my point of writing this article globally? that will stop the pain
is not really about the wickedness of A pill that will make a baby never seek
the nation called America and their Something is definitely broken in political gain
many atrocities across the globe, but our nations and the families that What’s it all for when you can alter
about something that most people make up those nations. There have biology?
may not be paying attention to, but been increased cases of depression, Who or what, then my friend, will you
which is very critical for the times suicide, familicide and the many and I be?
we are in. other unbelievable things going on Who or what, then my friend, will you
within the homes. Increases in rape and I be?
Take a look at these two statements among family members, friends set-
of fear and pain again and maybe ting up friends to be raped, grand- Sincerely speaking, is there a “pill”
you will see what I am trying to fathers sodomizing their grand kids. that the whole world has been
make you see: Police officials doing the unthink- drugged with and which is creating
“If you can’t take us, take our children.” able which, most of the time, is humans that are no longer humans
and; “The Taliban are coming for me”. linked back to trouble at home. And and which is making the vulnerable
to cap it up, the falsehood called cry out in fear and anguish saying
The question I want to ask now is Covid-19 and its devastating effects
this, are these Taliban referred to on the economies of nations and by “The Taliban are coming for us”.

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