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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    3 months ago

    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.

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          2 months ago

          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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            I like that. Drones that both play porn audio and drop nudes like propaganda pamphlets. It would shut the country down.

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    3 months ago

    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.

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    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.”

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      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.

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    “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

        • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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          Their religion is Islam, which has no race or ethnicity. There’s more Indian, Pakistani, and Indonesian Muslims than anywhere else.

          • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
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            I use it in the context that you would use american. It can refer to a group or nationality, but it can also be used as a cultural descriptor, referring to the export of cultural beliefs and customs. This includes things like religion, but also includes language, customs, ethics, tradition.

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    3 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.

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

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      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.

    • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
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      Funny how Christian conservatives in the west still insist they share nothing in common with Muslim fundamentalists…

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    3 months ago

    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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        They’re not agreeing that The Guardian and Breitbart are on a level. They’re complaining that MBFC ranks them the same when Breitbart is clearly a much more biased and less reliable source.

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          They’re wrong that they rate the Guardian and Breitbart the same. First of all, they don’t have the same credibility rating. You also have to ignore the reports to reach that conclusion. Breitbart is a “Questionable Source.”

          A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency, and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for profit or influence. Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact-checked on a per-article basis. Sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source.

          Reasoning: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Failed Fact Checks

          The Guardian are not listed as a Questionable Source. They’ve linked to sources that have failed fact checks and failed numerous fact checks (mostly in Op-Ed), though 4 have recently dropped off the list in the last month or so (I think). Their fact-checking seems to have improved. They say this about them:

          The Guardian holds a left-leaning editorial bias and sometimes relies on sources that have failed fact checks. Further, while The Guardian has failed several fact checks, they also produce an incredible amount of content; therefore, most stories are accurate, but the reader must beware, and hence why we assign them a Mixed rating for factual reporting.

          ‘Be aware that they publish an avalanche of great news but have failed a few fact checks’ is not nearly the same thing as ‘Questionable source that publishes propaganda and conspiracy theories! You must fact-check each article individually because they’re so unreliable.’ There’s no way you could read those pages and conclude those sources are the same. They say that Breitbart is clearly a much more biased and less reliable source (to borrow a phrase).

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

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    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?

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      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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      Ferengi prefer their feeeemales completely nude, thankyouverymuch.