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.
LOL, how about just move back to caves
Reminds me if that weird movie the film professor made us watch. Where the guy see the girls ankle because if the wind and then chases her down to rape her. I don’t understand wtf this was for but I strongly suggest porn to desensitize if this is the alternative.
They’re called the Taliban, not the Taliallow
Fuck it, have the upvote
Taliban bringing the year of the Linux desktop closer wasn’t on my bingo card.
Jokes, but I’m surprised how these misogynistic shitheads can reproduce with how they are afraid of women.
They re not afraid of using women as domestic appliances for reproduction and housekeeping, because they are objects, property. They have problems with other men eyeing their property.
The answer is rape
year of the Linux desktop
I saw the headline and was like, “well the Lemmy crowd would love this”. One half loves authoritarian regimes, the other half hates windows.
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.
Yet, Talibs are idiots covering their bigotry under their religion like many in the middle east do.
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.
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.
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.
Why don’t they just blind all the men who can’t control themselves?
Seriously, what is the point of trying to control women this way? Or really in any matter? I’ve never understood it. Are people really that scared and threatened by women? What is the end game for people who do things like this?
The Talibans are soo gay they don’t even want to know about the existence of women.
How backwards and idiotic a religion can become.
Okay my first thought this is Microsoft Windows, and was very confused how people can be seen though a OS. And I later convinced myself maybe this is about Zoom calls.
They should probably just ban women outright until they learn how to live beside women responsibly
I REALLY want to find an arab woman who’s lived under taliban rule, but also speaks english. I really want to ask her a hypothetical question.
I live in America. I see naked women quite frequently. I live in a society where I’ve literally gone in public, and seen women wearing a thong bikini, basically made of dental floss, and no top.
The logic of the taliban is that women cannot reveal their bodies to men, or it will FORCE the men to abuse and rape the women. I have frequently been in the presense of naked and near naked women. I am a man. I have never beat or raped a woman.
So I want to ask a woman who’s had experience first hand living with the taliban.
Would you feel safer living naked with me everyday? Or fully clothed everyday with the taliban?
People in Afghanistan aren’t Arabs; they’re Afghans. They notably don’t speak Arabic.
:O
My mistake. I legit thought they did.
Soooooooo, what do they speak?
from a quick glance at Wikipedia, the official languages are Dari and Pashto, spoken by 75% and 48% of the population respectively, but many other languages are also spoken
Arabic is only spoken by 1% of the Afghani population, which is less than English (6%)
You mean 2 decades of occupation murder and bombing didn’t make them more liberal? Who’d’ve thought
Buddy, these cretins aren’t ever going to be anything even close to center… regardless of what the usa does
these cretins
Racism makes everything so simple doesn’t it
