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The Taliban government in Afghanistan is drawing renewed outrage over a new law banning women's voices in public, forcing them to completely cover their bodies and faces out of the home, and more. This comes after the Taliban banned women from working in most fields and ended girls' education past primary school following their takeover of the country in 2021. We speak with Sima Samar, an Afghan human rights advocate and doctor who chaired the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission from 2002 until 2019; she also briefly served as minister of women's affairs in the interim Afghan government in 2002, after a U.S.-led coalition toppled the first Taliban government for its support of al-Qaeda. "You cannot see such a law in any other regime on this planet," she says. "This is a crime against humanity. It is gender apartheid."
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magicarpet
(16,186 posts)... make this idea part of the Nazi Manifesto - Project-2025 plan.
Women not to speak out in public unless talking to a husband, father, or brother. Also barred too from using any communication equipment or devise unless authorized to do so by her male chaperone.
Khristo-Fascism one ups the Taliban extremists.
Uncle Joe
(59,996 posts)if given enough time and power to the fundamentalist, extremist, and insecure right wing.
I believe there is also another secret book on Project 25 in addition to the extremist, radical public one that most everyone is aware of.
If that's the case something along those lines may be in it?
As far as I can tell, they have no boundaries in regards to trashing freedom.
Lonestarblue
(11,558 posts)They may only sit, listen to the men, and not participate at all. I forget whether its Tim Dunn or Faris Wilks, but both are extremist evangelicals who are using their money to create Christian Dominionism in Texas. If youre not familiar with the philosophy, they break all aspects of life into seven categories (the Seven Mountains) and hold that Christians are the rightful rulers of everything in the US. They arent very different from the Taliban.
Laffy Kat
(16,505 posts)And if anyone believes it can't happen here, they are mistaken. The powers-that-be chip away at our rights little by little, like the Project 2025 playbook lays-out--actually some of that has already been happening--and it becomes easier and easier.
Warpy
(113,093 posts)and informed these fucking goons that women are the way Allah made them and if it is good enough for Allah, it should be good enough for them.
Of course, nothing is good to them except their dicks and their beards, both of which they worship
It makes me want to swoop in and herd them all into a camp where they can play with themselves as they crow about how wonderful life is without the sight or sound of women.
Uncle Joe
(59,996 posts)(snip)
The literacy rate of Afghanistan in 2022 was 37.3% (22.6% for women and 52.1% for men). In the past decade, UNESCO has provided over 1 million learners with Basic General Lite
Since the beginning of 2023, UNESCOs Youth and Adult Literacy and Basic Education (YALBE) program through national Implementing Partners (IPs) is providing Basic General Literacy (BGL) equivalent to grades 1-3 of general education and pre-vocational skills for over 25000 illiterate and semi-literate youth and adults (over 60% women and adolescent girls) in 20 provinces of Afghanistan. This program uses UNESCO-developed teaching and learning materials, which have been developed based on adult learning principles and methodologies. UNESCOs field monitoring reports demonstrate that the provision of basic literacy and numeracy have had significant impacts on the learners daily lives, particularly illiterate females.
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https://www.unesco.org/en/fieldoffice/kabul/expertise/education/literacy-learning-possibilities#:~:text=The%20literacy%20rate%20of%20Afghanistan,Literacy%20and%20Skills%2Dbased%20Literacy.
So I imagine with no countering information or ability to discern it they largely believe what they're told without question by their clerics that do in regards to the Quran and what constitutes moral behavior.
Warpy
(113,093 posts)because they know a lot less about that book they're waving around than I do. It's a pretty remarkable document, especially given when it was written.
Muslim women during their golden age had rights that Christian women didn't even dare to dream about and didn't get until the 1899s.
nycbos
(6,278 posts)Democracy Now aknowledged nonwhite people sometimes do bad things to?
pnwmom
(109,464 posts)The woman in the photo looks white. There's also a boy with light brown hair.