https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html
“Among the new rules, 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 also 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.”
Does the international community have a moral obligation to resist the enslavement of women in Islamist countries like Afghanistan and Iran, or should the principle of national sovereignty mean countries are allowed to abuse their citizens as they see fit?
Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public
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How does this relate to geopolitics. Their country their internal rules, how does it affect external relations?
Apparently, chronic lead poisoning is endemic in Afghanistan, because their traditional cookware is manufactured from random bits of scrap metal, melted down.
Lead poisoning of this type is associated with cognitive impairment and increased aggression.
This could explain a lot.
Interesting tourism drive?
I honestly thought this was an Onion headline at first. How depressing.
I mean, the international community does speak out on issues like this. But unless someone’s planning to put together a “security assistance force” to quell this type of barbarism, speaking out is all anyone is going to do.
How did this country still functioning is beyond me.
Sometime it made me sad to see that imagined reality like religion and institution really drive participants to do worst things and people still believe on those principles said so.
Sadly, it’s the latter and even more sadly there are many in these societies that fully approve of the mistreatment and abuse.
What follows is not a case of moral equivalence. I think the abuse of women in Afghanistan is absolutely horrendous. I am trying to make a point of *psychological* equivalence. That is, people diminish or deny the abuse/oppression in their own societies so setting a global moral agenda is next to impossible
For example, there are many in America who will defend that someone can be turned away from a doctor and sent off to die simply because they are poor.
Many in China believe the government is saving the Uighur from themselves and their “backward ways”.
Many in Canada fervently deny the genocide their country was founded on and the oppression and denial of equitable access to social capita that persists to this day.
Israelis consider the flattening of cities entirely justified.Many consider the flattening of Israel entirely justified
Don’t even start talking about India …..
Where do we even start???????
But how do the Taliban know who is a women and who is a man? I thought gender is a “spectrum” and stuff XD