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.
“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
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.
This really sounds more like the men should be kept inside …
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.
Arab Republicans
Conservatives, of any religion or ethnicity.
Afghan are not arab.
True, but the Taliban religion is Arab.
Their religion is Islam, which has no race or ethnicity. There’s more Indian, Pakistani, and Indonesian Muslims than anywhere else.
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.
Conservatism is a global plague of oppression and death. It always has been.
Media Bias/Fact Check - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for Media Bias/Fact Check:
MBFC: Least Biased - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: Very High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this sourceThe Guardian - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for The Guardian:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: Medium - Factual Reporting: Mixed - United Kingdom
Wikipedia about this sourcePutting MBFC’s rating of itself at the top just makes it look like everything is the least biased, most credible, source.
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.
Well, all Abrahamic religions oppress women but Islam wins by a long shot. It needs reformation and badly.
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.
I’m not an anthropologist or a religion expert but you don’t have to be one to notice that the most oppressive cultures towards women or gay people have one common denominator. Islam. Honour killings, marrying underage girls, do I need to keep going?
well maybe you need to educate your self before accusing a bout 1.8 billion people of something less than 100,000 do.
Burn their holy book and see what happens. Burn a bible and compare. You’re either arguing in bad faith or very naive, and I’m being extremely generous here. Good luck with this level of cognition
So you don’t like the cognitive that objective to the fact there are 1.8 billion muslium and you casting a general statement. You are not even attempting to compare “Muslium” to “Non Muslium” or doing any form of “thoughts” to support your comments other than personal feelings.
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%
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.
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.
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.
