‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public
‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public
New vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UN
New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups.
The Taliban published a host of new “vice and virtue” laws last week, approved by their supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, which state that women must completely veil their bodies – including their faces – in thick clothing at all times in public to avoid leading men into temptation and vice.
Women’s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions. Women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses.
Imagine being so insecure that you need someone to literally hide every aspect of their being so that you don't get aroused and can't control yourself. Fucking weak-willed cowards.
Nah, that's all bullshit. It's, as per usual about a small group of people at the top wanting to control everyone else. Those at the top won't be limited by details like rules, they'll rape and steal what they can. It's the rest that'll bmhave to suffer under them.
I guess it's just the result of undiagnosed and untreated psychopathy
Taliban men must be the weakest in the world if they can’t even hear a woman’s voice without being shoved into temptation. Do they all just instantly nut when a wrist bone slides out from the veil?! Talk about not having any confidence in themselves.
I understand temptation. You just have to, you know, resist. It’s called being a mature adult, or something along those lines.
They should tie one guy to a pole then blind and deaf the rest of themselves.
They're no different from men anywhere else. It's only a justification for control.
Their thinking is so backwards and cognitively dissonant it is maddening. I wish the women could successfully rise up and overthrow these shitstain people that call themselves “men.”
Unfortunately quite a few of the women support it. The truth is there were enough supporters of democracy and sharia to make either work. The elite prefer sharia though because it offers more control and aligns with tribal structures better.
“This document not only violates Afghanistan’s domestic laws but also broadly contravenes all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
They didn't think it could be done, but I knew I could do it. All 30 articles in one law!
— A Taliban, probably
You would think since it's the men that can't control themselves (per these assanine laws anyway), that they would have to stayed locked away somewhere. The women seem to be able to function just fine.
GOP taking notes..
Wow I can't believe these Taliban folks are so misogynistic. I for one am totally blindsided by this.
"Taliban". That rings a bell for some reason. I swear I've heard it before!
- women: * exist
-men: "QUIT MAKING US HORNY YOU HARLOTS!"
And they want tourists!
https://www.cnn.com/travel/afghanistan-tourism-under-the-taliban/index.html
Trust us, we won't chop your head off this time!
You know, when I read The Handmaid's Tale back in high school, I didn't think the ending made any sense. How do you have tourists just walking around taking pictures when there's horrible human rights violations happening in plain sight?
I think I get it now.
Honestly the accounts of the woman who visited almost bother me more than the men. Even as a tourist she wasn't allowed to do certain things, but she can just leave whenever she wants. Wonder how her friends among the locals feel about that.
good thing i have two heads
Conservatism is a global plague of oppression and death. It always has been.
Funny how Christian conservatives in the west still insist they share nothing in common with Muslim fundamentalists...
Well, all Abrahamic religions oppress women but Islam wins by a long shot. It needs reformation and badly.
Their are many more moderate sects of Islam, they just didn't get all the US and Saudi $$$$ to spread their beliefs.
Not sure how right or wrong that is when taking into account the more moderate sections of it, but in this particular case, as the article says, it's not really about Islam. The holy texts don't really call for any of this.
Why would it need reformation? It just needs to be abolished, making part of it better just lends false legitimacy to the whole.
1.8 billion muslims in about 57 countries around the world oppress women and need reform according to OP. In addition, op also claim that another 2.8 billion christian also oppress women but not as bad.
Statically speaking to determine if something a problem among 46000 millions people you need at least 1% of such population doing something, that is about 460 million people. Taliban government is about 200,000 people which is less than 0.001%
I've got to say, I'm having a very hard life and can't see a way forward to any sort of financial stability or security. But this would be a lot worse. Makes you think.
This is the system those people fight to maintain. So grateful I wasn't born there.
When the US left it really didn't take long, nor a lot of effort for the Taliban to take back control.
I think it's horrible to see what the Taliban government is doing to oppress the people of Afghanistan. I'm also surprised that so few people of Afghanistan showed any real will to prevent Taliban from taking power. They had 20 years to prepare, with ample support and loads of equipment from NATO and others, and when the foreign forces left they just ... capitulated.
It's baffling to me that seemingly nobody was willing to fight to prevent this. Thousands of people were at the airport during the last evacuations, and I vividly remember videos of people holding on to cargo planes that were taking off in an effort to get out of the country. Lots of people clearly knew it was going to get bad, but seemingly nobody was willing to fight to prevent it. I honestly have a hard time understanding how that happened.
America trained their military for 20yrs and gave them billions in military equipment to be able to fight for themselves. They literally laid down and surrendered after a couple weeks.
That's the thing, though, they don't fight for it. They don't really fight against it, either.
Sooo I guess they can't order anything from a counter, tell employees what size they need etc.
So the men do all the shopping then, do they?
Please don't link MBFC. It is itself biased and inconsistent.
For example the Guardian has the same credibility rating as Breitbart. With far fewer failed fact checks.
Cool cool. Ferengi have infiltrated earth.
Ferengi prefer their feeeemales completely nude, thankyouverymuch.
Coming soon to a US State near you!
Women's rights won't be properly protected in the US unless we put a pussy grabber back in the White House instead of... (checks notes)... a woman.
Look at those sexy shoes! My gosh! Maybe all women should wear only worn out men's shoes in color brown and wear brown or black socks all the way up the knees? Also the standard should be panties. Shorts, pants, an aluminum shield in the form of pants a beautiful skirt and then the burka and then a whole car cover.
Heck, maybe just ship all women to Mexico? Why not do that? Then they could wear anything they want and the Taliban men can be at ease?
No? Okay, better encase the women in concrete from the waist up and knees down. Those are the useless parts. The Taliban is only interested in the vagina required to make more Taliban.
How about lab grown vaginas attached to Taliban males?
That's just the multipolar world kicking in
Grande Americano please.
STRAIGHT TO JAIL!!!
Who would have imagined that bedsheet people lose other rights?
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