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© 2022 AFPTaliban order Afghan women to wear all-covering burqa
By Abdullah Hasrat and Qubad Wali KABUL©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Paul14
Aren't Muslims great? Not.
David Brent
What a trash country.
plasticmonkey
Morons.
Mr Kipling
How the women must long to return to the best time in Afghan history for women's freedom.... The Soviet times.... Sadly, the US installed the 14th century bigots now back in power.
kurisupisu
No need to wear masks; the burqa is all that’s needed…
Peter14
All in or none in. This must also be required of men in public to fully cover themselves, revealing only their eyes.
What a barbaric people the Taliban are. Any nation that institutes such repressive edicts on what is normally 51% or more of the population, need to be excluded from the UN and all world bodies until they realise that personal choice is a right of birth, and not something one group can take away from others for religious reasons.
Anonymous
Asked what a woman is the Afghan government spokesman immediately replied “Someone who wears a burqa.”
Ass
Barbarians.
Mr Kipling
It's Pashtun culture.. The rich elite of Kabul are not now in charge.
No dress restrictions during soviet times... Free to work and go to school... US didn't like.
Bob Fosse
He then spent 2 hours on Pornhub. You know it.
SDCA
This is out of control. The women over there are seriously beautiful and to not be able to show their face is sad. But I guess I can't be disrespectful of someone else's religion.
Ah_so
Been a bad week for women's liberty around the world in the face of religious extremism. First the US Supreme Court decision and now this.
Jimizo
Why not?
Religions have no right to respect unless they earn it. Same as any other opinion or set of beliefs.
I haven’t come across too much to respect with regards to religions.
Skeptical
The decree, announced by a spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, also said that the decree would be enforced through the offending woman's father or closest male relative. He would be visited and warned. Then punished by being fired from his job or imprisoned if the woman offended again.
It has been demonstrated time and again that enforcing laws against women and children by punishing related males leads to an incredible rise in abuse and violence against women and children.
Some things never change. And never will. Like the Taliban.
Garthgoyle
Women after nothing but a thing to pop babies in that country. So disgusting and so sad. And worse, absolutely no one there would stand against such human rights violations.
Skeptical
Taliban views on the subject are considered outside mainstream interpretation and custom.
The following two views are instructive.
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Skeptical
Also, from multiple news sources, the Taliban this week also are prohibiting women from receiving driving instruction, and are now prohibiting the issuance of permits and licenses to women.
starpunk
Backwards and stupid. Should've seen it coming.
Fanatics. I've seen and met quite a number of Muslim women who don't dress like that. It's a bad stereotype.
Catholic school kids have to abide with uniform dress codes. That's hypocrisy, not what Catholicism is about. And the same goes for this. This isn't true Islam. These dress code enforcers are the ones with their minds in the gutter. The problem is them.
theFu
Taliban gotta Tali-ban.
I'd ask all the Afghans who didn't back the US working with the Afghan govt, are you happy now? Congratulations.
Obviously, would have been better if there weren't extremists in Afghanistan and the country were left alone, but that isn't the real world.
HonestDictator
Any time the head of government has to give themselves a title of "supreme leader"... sounds like a real leader for the people doesn't it.
I really wish the current and previous administration had trained and armed the women instead of the men, because then the women could leave the men in their little corrupt delusions of superiority and create a better society for the country without those fanatical freaks.
Women wouldn't be told they can't be educated if they had an ak-47 backing them up. "I have to wear a burqa?! MAKE ME."