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Related: About this forumTaliban ban women from restaurants and green spaces in Afghanistan - WION
In the Afghan province of Herat's northwest, the Taliban have made it illegal for families and women to enter restaurants with gardens or other outdoor areas. The organization, which took control in August 2021, is still restricting the rights of women while in power.
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Taliban ban women from restaurants and green spaces in Afghanistan - WION (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Apr 2023
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sinkingfeeling
(57,835 posts)1. Giving the GOP more ideas.
no_hypocrisy
(54,906 posts)2. I wonder how many non-Taliban women are secretly teaching their daughters
not to adopt the new Taliban mentality of women subjugating to their brothers, their fathers, their uncles, their cousins, etc., in hopes of one returning to pre-Taliban Afghanistan.
ancianita
(43,307 posts)3. Likely none. They'd be reported anonymously and face death.
Children can't keep secrets from each other, and boys would find out and tell their brothers and fathers, and then...
Irish_Dem
(81,263 posts)5. This could cause their daughters to be killed.
Or jailed.
Karadeniz
(24,746 posts)4. Taliban prefers same sex.....