"Gender Apartheid": Taliban Approves Law in Afghanistan Requiring Women Remain Silent in Public

[Uncle Joe]

The Taliban government in Afghanistan is drawing renewed outrage over a new law banning women's voices in public, forcing them to completely cover their bodies and faces out of the home, and more. This comes after the Taliban banned women from working in most fields and ended girls' education past primary school following their takeover of the country in 2021. We speak with Sima Samar, an Afghan human rights advocate and doctor who chaired the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission from 2002 until 2019; she also briefly served as minister of women's affairs in the interim Afghan government in 2002, after a U.S.-led coalition toppled the first Taliban government for its support of al-Qaeda. "You cannot see such a law in any other regime on this planet," she says. "This is a crime against humanity. It is gender apartheid."

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[magicarpet]

1. Maybe the Heritage Foundation should,...

... make this idea part of the Nazi Manifesto - Project-2025 plan.

Women not to speak out in public unless talking to a husband, father, or brother. Also barred too from using any communication equipment or devise unless authorized to do so by her male chaperone.

Khristo-Fascism one ups the Taliban extremists.

[Uncle Joe]

2. If a woman has no control over her own body, covering and muting them would be a natural extension

if given enough time and power to the fundamentalist, extremist, and insecure right wing.

I believe there is also another secret book on Project 25 in addition to the extremist, radical public one that most everyone is aware of.

If that's the case something along those lines may be in it?

As far as I can tell, they have no boundaries in regards to trashing freedom.

[Lonestarblue]

3. A Texas billionaire funding the state's lurch to the far right attends a church where women are not allowed to speak.

They may only sit, listen to the men, and not participate at all. I forget whether it’s Tim Dunn or Faris Wilks, but both are extremist evangelicals who are using their money to create Christian Dominionism in Texas. If you’re not familiar with the philosophy, they break all aspects of life into seven categories (the Seven Mountains) and hold that Christians are the rightful rulers of everything in the US. They aren’t very different from the Taliban.

[Laffy Kat]

4. It gets worse and worse for the women in Afghanistan.

And if anyone believes it can't happen here, they are mistaken. The powers-that-be chip away at our rights little by little, like the Project 2025 playbook lays-out--actually some of that has already been happening--and it becomes easier and easier.

[Warpy]

5. I don't suppose anyone in Afghanistan has read the Quran

and informed these fucking goons that women are the way Allah made them and if it is good enough for Allah, it should be good enough for them.

Of course, nothing is good to them except their dicks and their beards, both of which they worship

It makes me want to swoop in and herd them all into a camp where they can play with themselves as they crow about how wonderful life is without the sight or sound of women.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Only a little over 1/3 of all Afghans could read in 2022 with just barely 1 out of 2 men and 1 out of 5 women.

(snip)

The literacy rate of Afghanistan in 2022 was 37.3% (22.6% for women and 52.1% for men). In the past decade, UNESCO has provided over 1 million learners with Basic General Lite

“Since the beginning of 2023, UNESCO’s Youth and Adult Literacy and Basic Education (YALBE) program through national Implementing Partners (IPs) is providing Basic General Literacy (BGL) equivalent to grades 1-3 of general education and pre-vocational skills for over 25000 illiterate and semi-literate youth and adults (over 60% women and adolescent girls) in 20 provinces of Afghanistan. This program uses UNESCO-developed teaching and learning materials, which have been developed based on adult learning principles and methodologies. UNESCO’s field monitoring reports demonstrate that the provision of basic literacy and numeracy have had significant impacts on the learners’ daily lives, particularly illiterate females.”

(snip)

https://www.unesco.org/en/fieldoffice/kabul/expertise/education/literacy-learning-possibilities#:~:text=The%20literacy%20rate%20of%20Afghanistan,Literacy%20and%20Skills%2Dbased%20Literacy.

So I imagine with no countering information or ability to discern it they largely believe what they're told without question by their clerics that do in regards to the Quran and what constitutes moral behavior.

[Warpy]

10. I'd wager most of the Taliban are illiterate

because they know a lot less about that book they're waving around than I do. It's a pretty remarkable document, especially given when it was written.

Muslim women during their golden age had rights that Christian women didn't even dare to dream about and didn't get until the 1899s.

[nycbos]

6. Has hell frozen over?

Democracy Now aknowledged nonwhite people sometimes do bad things to?

[pnwmom]

8. Which nonwhite people are you talking about? The Afghanistans?

The woman in the photo looks white. There's also a boy with light brown hair.

Since 1945, Afghan Americans have been officially classified as Caucasians. For U.S. Census purposes Afghans are racially categorized as White Americans. Some Afghan Americans, however, may self identify as being Middle Eastern Americans, Central Asian Americans or Asian Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Americans#:~:text=Ethnicity%20and%20race,-Further%20information%3A%20Ethnic&text=Since%201945%2C%20Afghan%20Americans%20have,Asian%20Americans%20or%20Asian%20Americans.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Amy Goodman 2013 Commencement Hampshire College