A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden

A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden

  • Late2TheParty@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    The Taliban predates US government intervention. Kindly STFU.

    The Taliban came to power after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, you dollard!

    • merridew@feddit.uk
      15·
      1 year ago

      3 July 1979: CIA initiates Operation Cyclone, financing the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan.

      25 December 1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

      1989: Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

      1992: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan collapses; start of the Afghan Civil War.

      1992: Operation Cyclone ends, after funneling thousands of tons of weaponry worth several billion US dollars to militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties.

      1994: Emergence of the Taliban.