‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public

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‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public
theguardian.com

New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups.

The Taliban published a host of new “vice and virtue” laws last week, approved by their supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, which state that women must completely veil their bodies – including their faces – in thick clothing at all times in public to avoid leading men into temptation and vice.

Women’s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions. Women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses.

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Well, all Abrahamic religions oppress women but Islam wins by a long shot. It needs reformation and badly.

Their are many more moderate sects of Islam, they just didn't get all the US and Saudi $$$$ to spread their beliefs.

Not sure how right or wrong that is when taking into account the more moderate sections of it, but in this particular case, as the article says, it's not really about Islam. The holy texts don't really call for any of this.

I'm not an anthropologist or a religion expert but you don't have to be one to notice that the most oppressive cultures towards women or gay people have one common denominator. Islam. Honour killings, marrying underage girls, do I need to keep going?

well maybe you need to educate your self before accusing a bout 1.8 billion people of something less than 100,000 do.

Burn their holy book and see what happens. Burn a bible and compare. You're either arguing in bad faith or very naive, and I'm being extremely generous here. Good luck with this level of cognition

So you don't like the cognitive that objective to the fact there are 1.8 billion muslium and you casting a general statement. You are not even attempting to compare "Muslium" to "Non Muslium" or doing any form of "thoughts" to support your comments other than personal feelings.

Are you saying this is just toxic masculinity and militias run amok?

My understanding of Afghanistan's complex situation isn't sufficient to confirm or deny, sorry.

Why would it need reformation? It just needs to be abolished, making part of it better just lends false legitimacy to the whole.

1.8 billion muslims in about 57 countries around the world oppress women and need reform according to OP. In addition, op also claim that another 2.8 billion christian also oppress women but not as bad.

Statically speaking to determine if something a problem among 46000 millions people you need at least 1% of such population doing something, that is about 460 million people. Taliban government is about 200,000 people which is less than 0.001%