The Taliban has banned women speaking outside the home

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With New Taliban Manifesto, Afghan Women Fear the Worst

Three years into its rule, the movement has codified its harsh Islamic decrees into law that now includes a ban on women’s voices in public.

www.nytimes.com

No education beyond the sixth grade. No employment in most workplaces and no access to public spaces like parks, gyms and salons. No long-distance travel if unaccompanied by a male relative. No leaving home if not covered from head to toe.

And now, the sound of a woman’s voice outside the home has been outlawed in Afghanistan, according to a 114-page manifesto released late last month that codifies all of the Taliban government’s decrees restricting women’s rights.

A large majority of the prohibitions have been in place for much of the Taliban’s three years in power, slowly squeezing Afghan women out of public life. But for many women across the country, the release of the document feels like a nail in the coffin for their dreams and aspirations.

 

[finesse]

Terrible as usual from fundamentalists. Course, America wasn't much different into the 1900s.

J.D. Vance just turned green with envy. Thoughts of Project 2029 and the new codicil are dancing in his head.

Abraham and all his descendants. smdh.

I greatly recommend Terror in the Name of God by Jessica Stern. As she points out, there is precious little difference between our fanatics and theirs in their alienation and rejection of anything but a male dominated religiously centered culture where neither science or equality plays a part.

 

[superrific]

This is dumbfounding, no pun intended. First, it is unimaginable that they would do something so vile. Second, why on earth would men want women to stay at home all the time. I get that springtime in Kabul isn't exactly Chapel Hill in April, but still you would want to see some female form, yes?

 

[aGDevil2k]

Somewhere the Project 2025 folks are thinking "damn how did we not think of that first??"

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Worth noting that before the Taliban took over the percentage of Afghan girls attending secondary schools rose to at least 40% (a huge increase over previous generations), including such impressive projects as the Gohar Khatoon School for Girls, designed by an American architect with help from the University of Washington School of Architecture. At its height it educated over 3,000 Afghan girls from kindergarten through 12th Grade. When the Taliban took over they removed Gohar Khatoon's middle and high schools for girls and limited it to grades kindergarten through sixth grade only. What is happening there is disgusting - Afghan women are going from tentative moves towards educational equality to ancient times.