There is a young woman sheltering under a tree between two busy roads clutching a pile of documents to her chest.

These pieces of paper are more important to Bibi Nazdana than anything in the world: they are the divorce granted to her after a two-year court battle to free herself from life as a child bride.

They are the same papers a Taliban court has invalidated - a victim of the group’s hardline interpretation on Sharia (religious law) which has seen women effectively silenced in Afghanistan’s legal system.

Nazdana’s divorce is one of tens of thousands of court rulings revoked since the Taliban took control of the country three years ago this month.

  • @foggy
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    1112 months ago

    A GOP wet dream

    • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
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      332 months ago

      I mean, the last GOP president literally handed the country back to the Taliban - so less of a dream, and more of a conservative “success” story.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        In their defense the previous government was a puppet government installed and propped up by the US. It wasn’t particularly popular and could never sustain itself without direct foreign military support.

        • @HerrBeter
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          02 months ago

          It was a löst cause, in the end, no one wanted to pay for reconfiguring traditions and values that were made up a long time ago

          • @[email protected]
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            -52 months ago

            I mean when you put it that way, it’s still morally dubious. Not saying that the culture is great or anything, but who are we to say that it is so inferior that it must be eliminated and replaced with our superior ones? It’s cultural genocide.

            • @HerrBeter
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              32 months ago

              It was never replaced, rather reformed. Is it just to have women as second class citizens? To exclude them from school and all other education?

              I still feel it would’ve been justified to stay, these things tend to spread when they are allowed to exist

    • @ZK686
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      -132 months ago

      WTF? That’s like saying a Democrat’s wet dream would be for Israel to be wiped off the planet…

      • @Ultraviolet
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        22 months ago

        Yeah, the GOP wants checks notes the exact same thing but using a different religion to justify it. Totally different.