Taliban bans women from speaking, showing bare faces in public

Michie · Aug 30, 2024

An Afghan burqa-clad woman walks along a street in Baharak district, Badakhshan province on August 29, 2024. | OMER ABRAR/AFP via Getty Images

New laws passed by the Taliban regime that ban women from speaking or showing their faces in public have been condemned by the U.N. and human rights groups.

Three years after taking over Afghanistan amid a hasty U.S. withdrawal under the Biden administration, the Taliban passed several “vice and virtue” laws last week, ordering Afghan women to cover their faces in public and to wear thick clothing so that men are not tempted. The laws also prohibit women from speaking in public, looking at men they are not related to, and must be accompanied by a man if they venture outside their home.

Earlier this week, the United Nationsdenounced the Taliban's vice and virtue laws. Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, was quoted in the report as saying that the prohibitions on women, called the “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” effectively “silences women’s voices and deprives them of their autonomy.”

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Taliban bans women from speaking, showing bare faces in public

New laws passed by the Taliban regime that ban women from speaking or showing their faces in public have been condemned by the U N and human rights groups

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RileyG · Aug 30, 2024

How can that be enforced? Cover your face and never speak essentially? Odd and frightening!

RDKirk · Sep 1, 2024

This shows the difference between a benign patriarchy and a malevolent patriarchy.

Francis 1928 · Sep 1, 2024

RileyG said:
How can that be enforced? Cover your face and never speak essentially? Odd and frightening!

This makes me wonder why their biggest defenders are women .That entire faith puts women at the foot stool of us men.That is a horrible hand to dealt with in life .

RileyG · Sep 2, 2024

Francis 1928 said:
This makes me wonder why their biggest defenders are women .That entire faith puts women at the foot stool of us men.That is a horrible hand to dealt with in life .

Of Islam? That actually surprises me.

Francis 1928 · Sep 2, 2024

RileyG said:
Of Islam? That actually surprises me.

Yes, women are some of biggest defenders of Islam as well as opposers of Israel.They know what the teachings of Islam are better than most . I never understood why .

JustaPewFiller · Sep 2, 2024

RileyG said:
How can that be enforced? Cover your face and never speak essentially? Odd and frightening!

From my understanding, it is usually enforced brutally by men (either individually or in groups). Sometimes acting in an official capacity other times taking it upon themselves to do.

Hazelelponi · Sep 2, 2024

I'm not at all surprised... I doubt anyone is. The biggest chance of freedom the average Afghan had was for the U.S. to have a decisive win.

If they want a different life, they'll just have to make it themselves. Perhaps that's positive, if they do rise up themselves without outside help it would probably be more lasting and better for them as a people.

So we can pray for them to find Christ and in Christ find a better way forward for their people and society..

RileyG · Sep 2, 2024

JustaPewFiller said:
From my understanding, it is usually enforced brutally by men (either individually or in groups). Sometimes acting in an official capacity other times taking it upon themselves to do.

Yeah. That’s what I understand too.

RileyG · Sep 2, 2024

Francis 1928 said:
Yes, women are some of biggest defenders of Islam as well as opposers of Israel.They know what the teachings of Islam are better than most . I never understood why .

Very odd indeed. I assumed men would know more about Islam because islams controls are mostly sexual.

Francis 1928 · Sep 2, 2024

RileyG said:
Very odd indeed. I assumed men would know more about Islam because islams controls are mostly sexual.

Its kind of baffling as to why females are among the first to defend it ,particularly during protest on the megaphones.They willingly put themselves at mens foot stools.

RDKirk · Sep 4, 2024

Francis 1928 said:
Yes, women are some of biggest defenders of Islam as well as opposers of Israel.They know what the teachings of Islam are better than most . I never understood why .

Different women for different reasons.

I don't know what the actual mindset might be for women who are in those lands. Where their lives are relatively stable, which is most of Islam, it may simply be a matter of all they know, all they've ever known and the security of a stable situation.

What is most intriguing, though, is that Western feminists, particularly American feminists, so zealously defend Islam. That is primarily a matter of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." They are following a specific Critical Theory ideology which casts all the West as inherent "colonizers" and the Islamic world as "the colonized," and thus in any dispute of Westerners against Muslims, Westerners are to be opposed.

RileyG · Sep 4, 2024

Francis 1928 said:
Its kind of baffling as to why females are among the first to defend it ,particularly during protest on the megaphones.They willingly put themselves at mens foot stools.

It's odd indeed.

Michie · Sep 4, 2024

Ugh…..

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