"Taliban’s shocking treatment of women shows why world...

[Nearly Sane]

...must impose apartheid-style sporting boycott"


I think that sporting boycott are always a matter of some very odd line drawing about what is acceptable behaviour.but I think that this is a reasonable case.




https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/talibans-shocking-treatment-of-women-shows-why-world-must-impose-apartheid-style-sporting-boycott-4923570

[Steve H]

...must impose apartheid-style sporting boycott"


I think that sporting boycott are always a matter of some very odd line drawing about what is acceptable behaviour.but I think that this is a reasonable case.




https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/talibans-shocking-treatment-of-women-shows-why-world-must-impose-apartheid-style-sporting-boycott-4923570

Politics should normally be kept out of sport, but where a regime discriminates on grounds of sex, race or ideology in its sports, a boycott is justified. Afghanistan under the Taliban does so discriminate, so yes, a boycott is justified.  Also, strict economic and cultural boycott, including boycotts of other countries that break those boycotts.

[Nearly Sane]

Oliver Brown on why  England should refuse to play Afghanistan

https://archive.vn/FrqPA

[Nearly Sane]

But they aren't going to.

https://archive.vn/y37SF

[Nearly Sane]

Anyone up for a holiday there?


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/05/visit-afghanistan-land-of-culture-cricket-and-women-closeted-in-their-own-homes

[Nearly Sane]

Lisa Nandy worried for sports fans enjoyment and ignored the use the Afghan govt make out of a cricket team that they in theory don't support

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jan/10/lisa-nandy-rejects-calls-england-boycott-afghanistan-cricket-match

[Christine]

I don't pay a lot of attention to Lisa Nandy's moral pronouncements.

https://youtu.be/oUon9j1zJ_E?feature=shared

Nandy: convicted child rapists should be able to choose to serve their prison sentence with women.