Thanks to peace, two unexpected words are echoing across Afghanistan’s capital: Luxury housing
Thanks to peace, two unexpected words are echoing across Afghanistan’s capital: Luxury housing
Thanks to peace, two unexpected words are echoing across Afghanistan's capital: Luxury housing
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In a town that has been through it all and is clawing its way back, a man named Omidullah is looking to hit paydirt.
The Kabul real estate agent is selling a nine-bedroom, nine-bath, white-and-gold villa in the Afghan capital. On the roof’s gable, glittering Arabic script tempts buyers and brokers with the word “mashallah” — “God has willed it.”
The villa is listed at $450,000, a startling number in a country where more than half of the population relies on humanitarian aid to survive, most Afghans don’t have bank accounts, and mortgages are rare. Yet the offers are coming in.
“It’s a myth that Afghans don’t have money,” Omidullah said. “We have very big businessmen who have big businesses abroad. There are houses here worth millions of dollars.”
In Kabul, a curious thing is happening to fuel the high-end real estate market. Peace, it seems, is driving up property prices.
Women have no rights and the poor are starving in the streets, but at least the rich can still have everything they want!
You know what's interesting here? That statement applies to the US too, but I think the concept of American Exceptionalism has given us a blind spot in that regard.
As of now women have more rights in the US but the christofascists are chipping away quickly at them. It’s dependent now on what state you’re in. I’m in a state with abortion rights codified into our constitution… whereas other women in the christofascist ran states are dying in childbirth because the healthcare they need to survive is banned.
-"Whatabout the USA"
Yes, how true. Like how my wife here in Indiana right now has to sit at home and cook and clean due to being unable to work, but at least while she's at home, she doesn't have to cover herself from head to to so that no man may look at her, am I right?
OK, so the Taliban literally have a history of selling women into slavery.
Recent history.
Also, child marriage is common practice:
If you can't grasp the difference between how women are treated by the Taliban in Afghanistan and how they are treated in the US, then you aren't qualified to have an opinion on this subject.
The GOP's policies in the US are oppressive and horrific, but they are still a very far distance away from actual state-sanctioned human trafficking.
Imagine the brainwashed chuds who downvoted this comment.