#taliban misogyny

[mizelaneus]

[charlesoberonn]

"Lawrence it's the fucking Taliban" gives similar vibes to "Harold they're lesbians"

[profeminist]

"The Taliban in Afghanistan have implemented a bizarre new edict that will further curb the voices of women who are already prohibited from speaking in public.

Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, declared that women must refrain from reciting the Quran aloud in the presence of other women, reported Amu TV, an Afghan news channel based in Virginia, US.

“When women are not permitted to call takbir or athan[Islamic call to prayer], they certainly cannot sing songs or music,” he said in remarks reported on Saturday.

“Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear ... How could they be allowed to sing if they aren’t even permitted to hear [each other’s] voices while praying, let alone for anything else,” Mr Hanafi was also quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph.

A woman’s voice is considered awrah, meaning that which must be covered, and shouldn’t be heard in public, even by other women, the minister said."

Read the full piece here: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/afghanistan-taliban-women-hearing-speak-b2637984.html

[allthegeopolitics]

Life as a woman in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan just got even more restrictive as a government ministry enacts new laws on “vice and virtue” in the country, banning women’s voices and uncovered faces from public life. The laws were issued Wednesday by the ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice,” which was established in 2021 after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. That was the year the U.S. military and other western powers, including Canada, evacuated the country, leaving behind a power vacuum quickly filled by the militant group. Many Afghans who worked for western powers, including drivers and interpreters, were left behind in the chaotic departure. [...] Women are also forbidden from singing, reciting and reading aloud in public, as a woman’s voice is deemed “intimate” and should not be heard. It’s unclear if speaking is also banned. [...]

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Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Just a heads up before the opportunists try and get ahold of this for islamophobic propaganda, what exactly is Islamic about banning women from reading the Qur'an? Nothing. This has nothing to do with faith and everything to do with control and abuse of power.

[sickofthis666]

A man can decide to brutally murder a woman because she left him, because she refused to date him or fuck him, because her behavior hurt his pride/honor/masculinity, or even slaughter a bunch of women (serial killers, school shooters, etc) and it's a more or less accepted conduct. We shrug it off like it's nothing, like it's out of our hands. Another cloud in the sky.

But a woman complaining about men's behavior's in a little corner of the internet? Oh, you evil bitch. You fascist bigot. You should face a firing squad.

I once read a post mentionning that whites should count themselves lucky that black people want "only" equality, and not revenge. But if I say the same about men and women — despite women's mistreatment having lasted millennia while slavery, segregation and racism combined have lasted centuries — I'm downright crazy.

It's so maddening to think about. If anything, women are incredibly kind and understanding towards their murderers. Way too much. Fuck, when I see groups of men with power that make women's lives a living hell, like the talibans, I think women should wipe them out. They can’t be reasoned with, and it's a question of life or death, or life or enslavement, so it's self-defense.

And outside of those groups? There comes a time where you can only acquire your rights by force, because mentalities and culture won't change spontaneously. Gender parity in governments is a law forcing gender parity because it's been proved and recognized that otherwise, it would never happen on its own.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[ms-revived-frogs]

Words can't express what I'm feeling right now

My heart bleeds for all Afghani women. This is evil. Men are evil.

[theupfish]

"As it stands, Sweden, Finland and Denmark already grant refugee status to all Afghan women seeking asylum, recognizing the severity of the persecution of women in Afghanistan - because of their gender."

[allwomenjointhe4bmovement]

How the Taliban erased 20 years of progress for Afghan women and girls:

M£n ruin everything they touch! They only bring pain, destruction and suffering!

Nothing will get better for us women until we decide to cut them off completely from our lives! Join the 4b movement! Stop waiting for men to change! Stop waiting for your oppressor to have empathy for the oppressed!

[rapeculturerealities]

Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’ | Global development | The Guardian

Excluding Afghan women from an upcoming UN conference on Afghanistan would be a “betrayal” of women and girls in the country, say human rights groups and former politicians.

The Taliban are reportedly demanding that no Afghan women be allowed to participate in the UN meeting in Doha starting 30 June, set up to discuss the international community’s approach to Afghanistan, and that women’s rights are not on the agenda

[secular-jew]

Before islam. The way it used to be, until the Mullahs and Ayatollahs and Sheiks took over, the same Islamists that students across America are cheering for, the same Islamists who's supporters fill the streets of London and New York. Shame on them.

[odinsblog]

[divisionofsimilarities]

As Taliban starts restricting Afghan men, some regret staying silent - The Washington Post

I'm calling it now. The same societies that didn't care about women having their rights demolished by the Taliban are now going to see this as a humans rights issue just because it also affects men now. And if anyone asks "why didn't the men speak up?", that's because some of these men actually benefited from the Taliban's misogny and even supported them.

They didn't think that the Taliban's draconian laws would apply to them, and now they're panicking because they've realized that being complicit with an authoritarian regime wasn't going to protect them and that it was always going to come at a cost.

Unfortunately it seems that Afghan women will be forced to continue suffering and will likely be neglected as media focus will be on the men who suffer.