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Afghanistan: Taliban bans music, video games, and foreign films
Op India ^ | 15 April, 2023

Posted on 04/16/2023 1:40:30 PM PDT by george76

The Taliban, earlier this month, prohibited women and families from accessing the garden restaurants in Herat.

Video games, foreign movies, and music have been outlawed in Afghanistan under the Taliban government because they are considered to be anti-Islamic. This ban is first imposed in the western city of Herat in Afghanistan. More than 400 firms in Herat had to shut down as a result of the sudden ban enforced by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

According to Maulana Azizurrahman Mohajir, the provincial head of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the establishments were shut down after several parents complained about how their kids were wasting time there. He said, “These shops were selling films that depicted and promoted Indian and Western values and culture, which are very different from Afghan culture and traditions.”

Reiterating that the Taliban considers such activities un-Islamic, he added, “The films they were selling did not have women in hijab, which is against Sharia. This is why the sale of such films is prohibited.”

The ban came after restrictions on other pastimes and types of entertainment that go against the Taliban’s radical Islamic Sharia law. The Taliban, earlier this month, prohibited women and families from accessing the garden restaurants in Herat.

The Taliban closed hookah facilities across the nation in October 2022. Smoking hookah is an everyday pastime for Afghan men. The Taliban closed down eateries owned and run by women in the city of Herat earlier in May 2022 and forbade men and women from dining together there. The Islamist group, has forcefully imposed severe constraints on how Afghans can behave and how men and women can interact with each other.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghans; bans; bansmusic; foreignfilms; hijrah; islam; jihad; moslem; moslems; music; muslim; muslims; rop; taliban; talibanners; trop; videogames; waronterror
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1 posted on 04/16/2023 1:40:30 PM PDT by george76
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But...but...what about the UN's "sustainable development goals"?


2 posted on 04/16/2023 1:43:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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And 80s hits were really starting to take off there


3 posted on 04/16/2023 1:43:37 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: george76

Kids play too many video games anyway. They should be outside killing infidels and blowing up school busses, like normal Muzzies.


4 posted on 04/16/2023 1:43:40 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: george76

That’s what these monsters did back in the 1990s, the first time they ruled Afghanistan.


5 posted on 04/16/2023 1:44:22 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: george76
That is Islam, ladies and gentlemen, as it is supposed to be practiced.

It is also why Afghanistan is in the shape it's in and always will be as long as true Islam is practiced.

Take oil away from the Middle East and they'd be riding camels and living in tents.

6 posted on 04/16/2023 1:44:34 PM PDT by ealgeone
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7 posted on 04/16/2023 1:44:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Well apparently this is what they want. They had 20 years to get their act together while our blood and treasure paid for it.

Too bad, so sad.


8 posted on 04/16/2023 1:45:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76

At least they’ll be talking to each other around the dinner table rather than Tik-Toking.


9 posted on 04/16/2023 1:48:13 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: dfwgator

Everything islamic clerics do increases the chance young boys will be sodomized.


10 posted on 04/16/2023 1:49:32 PM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: george76

So.

We let p**** men that wear dresses, makeup and have pretend periods replace women in several areas.

We let our little boys dress in sexy women’s clothes, dance for grown men while getting dollars stuffed in their outfits.

We are downgrading education because learning something is racist.

We change books and dictionaries, we ban books and we tear down statues.

Yeah, I don’t think we have any place to look down our noses until we clean up our own backyard.


11 posted on 04/16/2023 1:51:21 PM PDT by Irenic
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I heard elsewhere that the US continues to fund Afghanistan with multi-millions of taxpayer dollars. Anyone have details of US support???


12 posted on 04/16/2023 1:52:37 PM PDT by elpadre (nd )
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To: george76

20+ years, trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives later Afghanistan is exactly where they were.


13 posted on 04/16/2023 1:54:16 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: george76

I hope they ban procreating.

5.56mm


14 posted on 04/16/2023 1:55:42 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: Irenic

“Let he who has no sin cast the first stone” it was once said.


15 posted on 04/16/2023 2:04:48 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: george76

Well. Guess I’ll have to find somewhere else to visit. Damn. I was sooo looking forward to going.


16 posted on 04/16/2023 2:23:07 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: MotorCityBuck

Still safer than Chicago.


17 posted on 04/16/2023 2:24:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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At least I know I can arm myself when I get there.
Best firearms the good Ole USA can supply. 😉


18 posted on 04/16/2023 2:30:12 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: george76

Isn’t Islam great?


19 posted on 04/16/2023 2:35:39 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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No, but on the other hand, what does the West offer these days?


20 posted on 04/16/2023 2:36:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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