Posted on 05/07/2022 1:20:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Taliban officials announced that women and girls would be expected to stay home, and if they were to venture out, to cover in all-encompassing loose clothing that only reveals their eyes – preferably, a burka.
The restrictions on women's movement and dress are the harshest that the Taliban have announced since they came to power in August. It suggested the increasing dominance of the group's hard-line leaders, who appear to be behind the extended ban on most women and girls attending secondary school.
Saturday's announcement seemed to confirm the fears of many Afghans that the Taliban remained unchanged after two decades out of power. When the Taliban last ruled — from 1996 to 2001 — they also enforced harsh restrictions on women's dress and movement, and prevented most girls from going to school.
The news was met with dismay by some Afghan women.
"So much pain & grief for women of my country, my heart is exploding," tweeted Shaharzad Akbar, the former head of a prominent Afghan human rights group, who now lives in exile.
The rules would mean punishments for a woman's male guardian
The directive on the clothing of women and pubescent girls came from the Taliban's acting minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, a known hard-liner, Khaled Hanafi.
"We want our sisters to live with dignity and safety," he said.
However, it wasn't clear what legislative stages — if any — the directive still had to go through to be implemented. The state-run Afghan Bakhtar news agency described it as a draft law that had been "approved and implemented" by the Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada.
"This is just one more step closer to seeing the dominance of these really retrograde, out of touch elements of the Taliban," said Ashley Jackson, the co-director of the Kenya-based Centre for the Study of Armed Groups, where she focuses on the Taliban.
"I think it also symbolizes the ascendancy of this base in Virtue Ministry, which in the 1990s played a similarly outsized role."
The Bakhtar news agency said the rules would be implemented gradually, through preaching and persuasion at first — and then with punishments.
It is not the woman who will be punished, but her male guardians. Her brother, father, husband or son will be tasked with enforcing the rules, and they will be held to account if she defies them. Punishments would range from several days in jail to being fired from their jobs.
That transforms Afghan women to minors in the eyes of Taliban officials, said Heather Barr of Human Rights Watch.
"The Taliban are really taking a very significant step in terms of stripping away what autonomy still remains for women and girls," she said.
"They're creating a situation where it's not even in the hands of women and girls themselves to make a decision about whether they're going to resist the Taliban on this, what what types of risks they're willing to take with their own safety because it's their male family members who are being endangered, not them."
The rules could affect the Taliban's pursuit of international recognition
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan condemned the directive, saying it "contradicts numerous assurances" that the Taliban would respect the human rights of Afghan women and girls over the past decade.
"These assurances were repeated following the Taliban takeover in August 2021, that women would be afforded their rights, whether in work, education, or society at large."
It also complicates efforts by the Taliban to seek international recognition – even as it makes it harder for the international community to work with the Taliban to alleviate a humanitarian crisis through the country.
The U.N. estimates that 93 percent of all Afghans are not getting enough food to eat, and just over 8 million face starvation.
Is there a link to this Satanic nonsense? If there is why didn’t you include it when you posted this?
Ladies...Address your complaints to: Brandon... US Capitol Washington, DC USA
Let’s go, Brandon.
The culture of low iq, violent inbreds.
hefty trash bag stock just went up. Insecure masculinity and control. The “View” missed this story, 9 day time Emmys and they missed it. Men dominating and brutalizing women. They keep their mouths shut or they will get their a##es handed to them so the go after soft targets and soft men
Are we supposed to be surprised by this? The Taliban, and groups like them, have had this lifestyle for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
I pray for God’s blessing on everyone who has to live under this Satanic rule.
lol
Then treat them like it.
And teach your men to not be out of control, lascivious animals.
It goes to show that they know they can’t trust other men to behave themselves.
Also, this is what they want for us when they take us over.
Where are young women with the “Refugees Welcome” sign?
The people of Afghanistan wants to be oppressed by the Taliban. Not my problem. As long as they behave and keep it inside their country, they can do whatever the **** they want.
Surprise, surprise, surprise. 🙄
So much for women’s rights indoctrination for the 20 years we were in Afghanistan. I sure hope we did not spend all that blood and treasure in the land of savages to impress the Democrat feminists at home. The standing rule should be that when any country whose homes does not have windows and doors transgresses, we bomb and leave. Nothing to teach them or indoctrinate them with. They understand the stick. The carrot does not register.
There is a link. NPR
Only in Islam, women are deficient in intelligence & religion.
This was going to happen no matter who won in 2020.
And yet they have brought in 80,000 refugees from Afghanistan not vetted into the U.S. including the men, and they will breed like coyotes. Make that make sense.
Many of the women still walk around in black shrouds looking like the Grim Reaper, and were even fighting for the right to do so in France who wanted to outlaw that kind of attire because it was oppressive. They will not assimilate.
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