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Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue.

The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. The Taliban had set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” after seizing power in 2021.

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Article 13 relates to women. It says it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body at all times in public and that a face covering is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others. Clothing should not be thin, tight or short.

Women are obliged to cover themselves in front of non-Muslim males and females to avoid being corrupted. A woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. It is forbidden for women to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa.

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[-] RockyC@lemm.ee 36 points 3 weeks ago

All of that war and they are right back to where they were before we invaded.

Your tax dollars at work.

[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They worked well, do you know how much oil we got, and how many defense contracts where signed? What did you think they where taking your money for? Social programs? That would be communism! 🙃

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

The movie Charlie Wilson's War gives a nice prelude to the 2001 war. The good news is, the fraction of the cost of the war in the 80s that education of the people would have cost was saved...and spent in just days the next time around.

[-] Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Don't forget the copious amounts of opium that were grown, harvested and sold.

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no, the democracy bombs didn't work. Maybe next time, eh?

[-] vanontom@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What if we send them to someone else first, and let them drop The Democracy right on the civilian population? Damn, still not working. Must need smarter, more sophisticated bombs...

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Course its right back - they won.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

More like Trump handed them a win (and all of their peeps freed). To say they “won” is reductive af

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Well the USA was never fighting for arabic womens rights....

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

The number of well-educated men with comfortable lives who are willing to sacrifice themselves are very small. I'm not talking about people like Osama bin Laden, who are happy to send other people to die, I'm talking about the people who are willing to do the actual fighting, killing, and being killed. Some of the best solutions to terrorism are education and financial security.

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

In what way do you say that?

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