No music, no images… two things that have defined Human culture for millennia. The Taliban must really love leading a miserable existence.
Just wait for the exceptions for “spiritual leaders” and government officials.
As long as it means they can control others, they are happy.
Well, not happy as such
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Yeah, sending troops to Israel sure helps Hamas. Wanting Israel to stop killing innocents and children sure is wanting Hamas to be in charge. Try harder next time
Oh, look the mods being Hamas apologists again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam
Fundies gonna fundie
Make sure that mountain is free of any trees before taking that scenic picture.
This essentially bans all photography - it’s fucking weird.
Afghan Art exhibition:
Here’s a picture of a brick.Afghan religious leader:
Should we execute him? Just to be safe you know!Was there a fly on the brick?
Also, where are we on the matter of fungi?
And what about bacteria? Hope they disinfect the brick beforehand.
And viruses? Do viruses live?
Quick, check the ancient religious texts for guidance on viruses.
Ah yes, I guess we better execute him, the whole thing smells fishy, like an attempt to oppose authority.
“Smells fishy?” Are you evoking imagery of a living thing with your analogy?
What if my own blasphemous eyes and mind keep creating images of living things?
Get them - err, I mean get that thing which may or may not be a person… but, if they are currently a person, I’m sure it’s just a very temporary condition.
Goddammit I’m just trying to keep us safe from immorality! Or worse questioning authority. 😋
“Keeping us safe”, yeah, sure. Squad, this one. Also the one above. And the fellow below, too. Goddamn infidels, destroying our lovely… Uh, lovely… Lovely love for living in the present, yes! Just as the prophet would’ve wanted!
Bacteria, spores, and other microscopic life are in every picture taken of the natural world at a minimum.
So… TV news will just be text on a screen?
I suppose TV wouldn’t make much sense under those circumstances.
But they still have TV, right? They did the last time the Taliban was in charge. I remember a news segment about it way back when the war started. The programming was mostly a bunch of religious stuff and their idea of news. So I guess no more news? Or no more TV? Or just text…
I suspect some of them might still have cell phones with internet. I wonder if they’ll also force people to use text images as avatars on twitter or something
I wonder if animation will filll the gaps.
Does Afghanistan even have people able to do the volume of animation that would require?
Or I suppose it could just be little 5 second loops or whatever. One or two people could do that.
Edit: Oh! They can do it all with puppets! The Afghanistan Muppet News Night!
I assume that guy on the poster is dead, then?
I bet you’re not allowed to picture dead people either …
Might have bacteria in that photo.
Zombies & Vampires only.
I really, really wish the linked article explained more. What are they playing at? This is such a confusing level of control.
According to wikipedia, that isn’t even a problem within the Quran itself, but rather a hadith (oral tradition) from some other fellow: “Sahih Bukhari explicitly prohibits the making of images of living beings, challenging painters to “breathe life” into their images and threatening them with punishment on the Day of Judgment.”
It’s a radical religious thing. Images are imperfect imitations of God’s perfect work, therefore, they are blasphemy.
Okay but what about the image cast on our retinas through our eyeballs that we use to see?
Those are imperfect imitations of reality also. What’s their stance on those images…
Nonono that was all made by G. O. D.
What if you sneak around Afghanistan whispering “Don’t think of an elephant!” to people? Are they in trouble?
But apparently written religious works or talking about god’s work is perfect, or that would be banned too.
God doesn’t want you to mix fabrics or eat certain foods on certain days. “Confusing level of control” is on brand.
It’s not about making sense though. It’s about making you do what they want so that you know who is in control.
Not mixing fabrics and certain food practices were originally based on lived experience, like safety guidance, before getting coopted by religion. Kosher practices avoid cross contamination, and mixed fabrics could have something to do with temperature regulation in desert areas where it swings between extreme heat and cold daily. Or it could have existed to discourage lying about prodict quality by those who would sneak in poor quality materials.
When religion got ahold of these concepts they were absolutely twisted into controlling people.
taliban’s oppression is not a rabbit hole you want to go down
Fuck’s sake.
Are you Taliban and want someone dead, but frustrated with your fundamentalist movement’s pesky adherence to the rule of law? Upset at the heretic you can’t quite get proof of? Overbearing parents trying to arrange another marriage?
With new Taliban Ban on Images of Living Things®, you are back in the driver’s seat. Just take a picture of your target. After it’s done, the authorities will be practically begging you to murder that person to prevent the inevitable consequences, including the collapse of society and the rending of the fabric of space-time.
What is just so nuts is how much of an outlier and how incredibly new the bullshit the Taliban is doing, yet there are people who insist that all Muslims are copies of them…
“This is normal!” - Some Muslim in Afghanistan.
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