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BBC slammed into oblivion for ‘sympathizing’ with Afghan men ‘forced’ to sell young daughters

May 22, 2026 | | Print Article

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) wants people to feel sorry for Afghan fathers who sell their daughters for money.

That, at least, was what it appeared like when the BBC posted a stunning story to the social media platform X on Monday about how Afghan fathers are being “forced to make impossible choices” …

View the tweet below:

The actual story was exactly how it sounded like it’d be. It started by talking about Abdul Rashid Azimi, a father of two children who’s been unable to find work.

“I’m willing to sell my daughters,” he told the BBC. “I’m poor, in debt and helpless. I come home from work with parched lips, hungry, thirsty, distressed and confused. My children come to me saying ‘Baba, give us some bread’. But what can I give? Where is the work?”

“If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years. It breaks my heart, but it’s the only way,” he added.

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Next up is Saeed Ahmad, whom the BBC whined “has already been forced to sell his five-year-old daughter, Shaiqa, after she got appendicitis and a cyst in her liver.”

“I had no money to pay the medical expenses, so I sold my daughter to a relative,” Ahmad said, adding that the money he earned from selling his daughter paid for the surgery she needed.

However, he made a deal with the relative, wherein the relative only paid for the surgery for now, but allowed Ahmad to temporarily keep his daughter.

“If I had taken the whole sum at that time, he would have taken her away,” Ahmad explained. “So I told him just give me enough for her treatment now, and in the next five years you can give me the rest after which you can take her. She will become his daughter-in-law.”

Conservative commentator and podcast host Matt Walsh was appalled by Ahmad’s story:

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“Imagine that your relative needs help and you offer it only on the condition that they sell their children to you as slaves,” he wrote in a tweet. “And then imagine that they actually do it. Totally unthinkable all around.”

“But this is the ‘culture’ in places like Afghanistan. And it’s why we should have realized and accepted a long time ago that some cultures are just evil. Some people are just barbarians. You lock your door and don’t let them inside, ever, period,” he added.

Ahmad defended his actions.

“If I had money, I would never have taken this decision,” he told the BBC. “But then I thought, what if she dies without the surgery? Giving away your child at such a young age, carries a lot of anxiety. Underage [marriages] have their problems; however, because I couldn’t pay for her treatment, I was thinking, at least she will be alive.”

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Newsmax host Rob Schmitt was unimpressed by the father’s reasoning.

Sen. Mike Lee also lashed out at the BBC.

“Moral neutrality when confronting pure evil is indefensible,” he tweeted. “It’s indefensible for the BBC to tell this story—of a a father selling his twin seven-year-old daughters into sex slavery—with complete moral neutrality. If anything, BBC portrays this man a deeply sympathetic figure.”

Another clip fueling widespread outrage can be seen below:

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See more incensed reactions to the BBC’s “reporting”:

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