Taliban order Afghanistan's hair and beauty salons to shut

[riversedge]

Taliban order Afghanistan's hair and beauty salons to shut

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66094490

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The Taliban have ordered hair and beauty salons in Afghanistan to shut in the latest restriction faced by women.

A Vice and Virtue Ministry spokesman told the BBC businesses had one month to comply, starting from 2 July when they were first informed of the move.

Women's freedoms have steadily shrunk since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

They have barred teenage girls and women from classrooms, gyms and parks, and most recently even banned them from working for the United Nations.


The Taliban have also decreed that women should be dressed in a way that only reveals their eyes, and must be accompanied by a male relative if they are travelling more than 72km (48 miles)....................

[3catwoman3]

1. The Vice and Virtue Ministry? That sounds like something...

…out of a bad sci-fi movie.

Why are men so afraid of women?

[TexasDem69]

2. This is why there's a decent argument for the US

Having stayed in Afghanistan. Though I suppose you can’t make mysoginists see the light through the barrel of a gun.

This is also what happens when you let religious extremism into power. Very happy that can’t and won’t happen here.

[jimfields33]

3. The afghans wanted us out of their country.

Even the women wanted us out. Didn’t they vote for this?

[TexasDem69]

4. Dunno

Did they let the women vote?

[airplaneman]

5. Are you sure about that? Like they would never ban abortion here right? n/t.