The Taliban have taken multiple steps to walk back women's rights including forbidding education for girls beyond grade six and banning women from universities.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23718803

Summary

The Taliban have banned windows in homes that allow views of areas where Afghan women might be seen, citing concerns over “obscene acts.”

This new decree mandates blocking or obstructing such windows in existing and new buildings, continuing the group’s systemic repression of women since regaining control of Afghanistan in August 2021.

The Taliban’s policies have included bans on women’s education, public appearances, and voices.

Critics, including the U.N., warn these actions dangerously erode human rights, while activists call out global inaction over the ongoing oppression.

  • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    -7•5 days ago

    A lot of these stories are thinly sourced and heavily embellished. Any time you read “Enemy county on other side of world does extremely bizarre thing to entire population” headline, take it with an enormous grain of salt.

    American tabloid media loves to lie, in order to help justify past and future military conflicts and to stir up hostility against foreign populations.

    It’s the same hysterical bullshit we saw in the US, with Trump insisting Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats.

    • andrew_bidlawEnglish
      3•5 days ago

      Yet, Talibs are idiots covering their bigotry under their religion like many in the middle east do.

      • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
        1•5 days ago

        Talibs are idiots covering their bigotry under their religion

        They’re a reactionary response to foreign occupation, like white blood cells flooding your system to stave off a deadly infection. Had the English, the Russians, or the Americans approached Afghans peacefully and equitably, rather than charging in guns blazing time after time, you might not see these militant rejections of western culture.

        But for whatever reason, Americans simply cannot grasp why a foreign nation would rise up in violent rebellion against a military that systematically kidnaps and rapes local children.

        • andrew_bidlawEnglish
          2•4 days ago

          You take away their agency and their choice to create a backwards society. We can thank americans for creating a disfunctional corrupt house of cards that felt apart once they left, pepper it with their many crimes, but both Talibs in 2001 and Talibs in 2021 were to pack women in trash bags and make spotty readings of Quran the law once they get a chance. Probably, in coming decades, we’d see how they outlive the influence of murricans and their own overcompensation for that, but I just can’t see how that clique can create anything but conservative manocentric shithole with only variable being if they do or don’t become the worlds first opioid farm.

          • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
            1•3 days ago

            We can thank americans for creating a disfunctional corrupt house of cards that felt apart once they left

            Not merely a corrupt and dysfunctional state, but a narco-trafficking cartel. The Taliban’s war on the US occupation is fundamentally a Drug War against local cartel bosses spearheaded by a radical ideological movement. Its the same radical ideology that powered Indochinese Maoists during the 20th century and Prohibitionist/Abolitionist Americans during the 18th century.

            both Talibs in 2001 and Talibs in 2021 were to pack women in trash bags and make spotty readings of Quran the law

            The strict religious ideology of the Taliban is pitted against the rampant lawless violence and sexual abuse popular among the Northern Alliance cartels that the US has been supporting since the 1970s. It’s not entirely unlike the shitty American Two-Party System. Your options are far-right religious zealotry or shameless money obsessed corporate sellouts. Except, instead of playing tug-of-war at the ballot box, they’re outright bombing and shelling one another.

            Very hard to talk about the Taliban without talking about how much of the country was obliterated by American marines and artillery for the crime of living in proximity of a Taliban sympathist or ideologue.

            How many women were torn to shreds by shrapnel or immolated in the flames of a fuel bomb? How many starved to death under siege or were kidnapped as spoils of war by mercenaries? How many became insurgents themselves, after watching family, friends, and loved ones butchered or press-ganged into the poppy fields by occupying armies?

            Probably, in coming decades, we’d see how they outlive the influence of murricans and their own overcompensation

            The final stroke by the departing American army was to walk away with the nation’s foreign currency reserves and plunge eastern end of the country into the same famine that had plagued the west for decades. Now the only place Afghanis can turn for outside aid is like-minded Islamists in Pakistan and Turkmenistan or the secularists across the border in Communist China.

            The “best” you can hope for in this scenario is Afghanistan aligning with America’s largest geopolitical rivals.

            Asking why Afghanis would submit to Taliban rule really ignores how the Taliban managed to preserver and recover a popular mandate after twenty years of US occupation. In this case, they were literally the lesser of two evils. But how much evil can the country endure over the long term? Idk. That’s what really remains to be seen.

            In the end, we could be looking at a mass depopulation event like what we’ve seen across North Africa, the Levant, and the Saudi Peninsula.