Posted on 09/17/2021 10:29:05 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
Workers in the Afghan capital Kabul replaced signs for the country's women's ministry with those for the Taliban's moral police on Friday, as female former employees of the department said they had been locked out of the building.
A sign for the building was covered by a replacement in a mixture of Dari and Arabic, reading "Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice" on Friday, according to photographs and Reuters witnesses.
Female employees said they had been trying to come to work for several weeks only to be told to return to their homes, according to videos filmed outside the building seen by Reuters.
The gates of the building were finally locked on Thursday, one of the women said.
"I am the only breadwinner in my family," said a second woman, who also said she worked in the department. "When there is no ministry, what should an Afghan woman do?"
Taliban spokesmen did not respond to requests for comment on Friday.
When the Taliban, who seized control of Afghanistan last month last amid the chaos following the withdrawal of U.S. troops, were last in power from 1996-2001 girls were not allowed to attend school and women were banned from work and education.
During that period its Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice became known as the group's moral police, enforcing its interpretation of sharia that included a strict dress code and public executions and floggings.
A list of cabinet posts announced by the Taliban on Sept. 7 included an acting minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice and made no mention of a women's minister, but the group did not confirm the department had been disbanded.
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Huh...so is hacking off people’s hands and feet a virtue or a vice?
Well, on the surface one might think it’s good to see a government so concerned about virtue and vice.
But once you pull back the curtain it looks a lot like Nazi fascism and ninth century barbarism.
Somebody supported these stupid Democrat sons of bitches.
Probably the same idiots who come here and claim the Republicans are in charge.
There is going to be a lot of virtue and vice towards Afghan women by means of fists and blunt objects.
Why does any country need a “Women’s Ministry”? The USA does not have such a thing.
The UN has gender as a “cross-cutting” issue. That means EVERY UN agency and program is to advance that agenda.
“When there is no ministry, what should an Afghan woman do?”
There’s a place for women in the Taliban government. It’s spread eagled over a desk.
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