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The BBC's Shameful Spin on an Afghan Father Selling His Daughters Shows Why We Despise the Media

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  May 21, 2026 2:00 PM

The BBC is no stranger to controversy. Back in March, the BBC was begging a judge to toss a $10 billion lawsuit filed by President Trump after the network was busted doctoring video of a speech President Trump gave on January 6, 2021.

In the edited documentary, only three minutes of President Trump's speech were included, along with a 12-second edited clip of the event. The BCC did later issue a retraction and apology, saying it 'unintentionally gave the "mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action." They also called the editing an 'error of judgment.'

Now the BBC is under fire for trying to paint an Afghan father who sold his seven-year-old twin daughters into sexual slavery as the victim.

Here's more:

Abdul Rashid Azimi takes us into his home and brings out two of his children – seven-year-old twins Roqia and Rohila. He holds them close, eager to explain why he's making unbearable choices.

"I'm willing to sell my daughters," he weeps. "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?"

Abdul tells us he is willing to sell his girls for marriage, or for domestic work. "If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years," he says.

He hugs Rohila, kissing her as he cries. "It breaks my heart, but it's the only way."

This is the fruit of a backward culture that treats women and girls like chattel instead of human beings.

The outrage is palpable.

Islamic culture doesn't value girls.

And they're not nearly mad enough about this.

He is not the victim here.

There are others who are poor, and you'd be hard pressed to find a culture where young girls are sold as sex slaves for money.

We don't.

Just look at the U.K.

That's what they do to our daughters.

Girls have no value in Afghanistan.

They are slaves and property. Nothing more.

This is why we despise the media.