The Taliban have taken multiple steps to walk back women's rights including forbidding education for girls beyond grade six and banning women from universities.

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.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        TBF they like that guy too. And the second guy didn’t suggest this - it’s all them and their weird homoerotic incel energy.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    And just when I thought the Taliban’s laws against women were too extreme already, they decide to do this. They quite literally can stoop way lower than I thought.

    I feel so bad. Thanks for ruining my first day of 2025, Taliban.

  • Tin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    When do we get to the part of the episode where James T Kirk, prime directive be damned, finds the meglomaniacal computer controlling these men, and blows it up?

  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
    174·
    7 days ago

    Today, Pakistan, tomorrow, USA. You might be sceptical today, but if you think it really couldn’t happen in America, you haven’t been paying nearly enough attention.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      713·
      7 days ago

      A authoritarian theocracy seizing control of the government? Sounds serious!

      So when will democrats drop gun control considering this existential threat to the nation state?

      SocialistRA.org

      • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 days ago

        Wild topic change there!

        So when will democrats drop gun control

        Nearly every legislative session, iirc. More permanently, probably when school shootings stop for good.

      • Naloxone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Comrade, I too am a member, but the way you shifted topics here is too abrupt to provide meaningful discourse. I like to lean into the “we keep us safe” slogan.

        And to the doubters: yes, target practice, firearm safety training, and mutual aid support DOES make a difference in keeping communities strong, resilient, and safe. No one in the SRA is advocating for active resistance with force to anything or anyone.

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
    65·
    6 days ago

    Taliban doesn’t represent our religion Tbh

    • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      261·
      6 days ago

      They may not solely represent a religion but they definitely represent it. Mormons also represent a part of a religion. As do crusaders. And the Klan. And people who circumcise women. And the child rapists in the Catholic church.

      You don’t get to claim only nice things are representative and bad things aren’t as if religion as a power structure isn’t the core problem in and of itself.

      • SlothMama@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        6 days ago

        Exactly, kind of. Religious fundamentalism is a fascinating concept, because basically it is exactly that - taking the fundamental ideas of the religion and using that interpretation to derive perspective and subsequent law or policy.

        In a very real, significant way it’s a better representation of the religion than the watered down, culturally accepted version that moderate religious individuals will say is the ‘real’ version.

        Orthodox is fundamentalism, and anything otherwise is not the actual religion, even if that is the majority, like modern Christianity.

    • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
      22·
      6 days ago

      I’d argue that they represent the word of the Quran more closely than moderate Muslims.

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        6 days ago

        The taliban just takes the words of the quran wayy more strictly the Quran isn’t even strict at I all i would argue most of it is designed to protect you

        • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          If they are taking a very strict stance, it means they are deviating the least.

          It’s regrettable that the most fundamentalist groups of any religion produce the most suffering, but that’s what happens when a book promotes/endorses/encourages bigotry.

  • Dankob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    7 days ago

    I hear this isn’t the reality as media puts it, it’s not as strict there. Not yet at least. Heard it from someone who’s parents are from there and visited multiple times.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    8 days ago

    They can’t be seen, can’t speak, women’s voices cannot be heard (even by other women), and now they can’t have windows.

    At this point, if they have such a problem, leave the men inside in a windowless box and let women do the work. It’s men getting a half chub because they heard of someone thinking of a woman. Their obsession with women is so fucking weird. It’s like they’re the boogy man or some shit.

  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    661·
    8 days ago

    Damn for a country that hates gay people, they REALLY hate looking at women.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      26·
      7 days ago

      No, it’s more like each extremist Muslim doesn’t want any other man looking at any of his women, because he knows what he’d be unable to stop himself from doing if he saw someone else’s woman and assumes every other man is like that.

      And that line of thinking breeds generations of men who rather than might think that way, actually do think that way, making the rule even more necessary.

      It’s also a lot easier for a man to punish or beat a woman than it is another man, and it’s that line of thinking which turns women into property rather than people. And property can be treated however you like.