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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.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] notastatist@feddit.org 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This really sounds more like the men should be kept inside ...

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If the sight or sound of a woman triggers their weak little boners, then yes.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about drones zooming around with sweet women sounds? Is there a gofundme for that somewhere?

These countries must be stopped and everyone liberated. It's worse than life imprisonment.

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[–] thejml@lemm.ee 74 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I understand temptation. You just have to, you know, resist. It’s called being a mature adult, or something along those lines.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

They're no different from men anywhere else. It's only a justification for control.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.”

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

“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

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Conservatives, of any religion or ethnicity.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

True, but the Taliban religion is Arab.

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

GOP taking notes..

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow I can't believe these Taliban folks are so misogynistic. I for one am totally blindsided by this.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 11 points 2 months ago

"Taliban". That rings a bell for some reason. I swear I've heard it before!

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago

- women: * exist

-men: "QUIT MAKING US HORNY YOU HARLOTS!"

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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.

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Conservatism is a global plague of oppression and death. It always has been.

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[–] mods_mum@lemmy.today 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Well, all Abrahamic religions oppress women but Islam wins by a long shot. It needs reformation and badly.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Their are many more moderate sects of Islam, they just didn't get all the US and Saudi $$$$ to spread their beliefs.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying this is just toxic masculinity and militias run amok?

[–] Eiri@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

My understanding of Afghanistan's complex situation isn't sufficient to confirm or deny, sorry.

[–] mods_mum@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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?

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is the system those people fight to maintain. So grateful I wasn't born there.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When the US left it really didn't take long, nor a lot of effort for the Taliban to take back control.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That's because we knew the majority of them where just Taliban fighters that needed a job. So when we left, we basically left a bunch of gear to the Taliban fighters we just trained.

[–] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

That's the thing, though, they don't fight for it. They don't really fight against it, either.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

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?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] WeeSheep@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool cool. Ferengi have infiltrated earth.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Ferengi prefer their feeeemales completely nude, thankyouverymuch.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Coming soon to a US State near you!

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

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.

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