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.
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.
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.
Are you suggesting they are manufacturing consent? In my American media?
Yet, Talibs are idiots covering their bigotry under their religion like many in the middle east do.
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.