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Taliban ban windows to stop women being seen inside homes (www.newsweek.com)
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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.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

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.

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