A woman found strolling in the company of a man who is not her relative can expect 100 lashes as a punishment, and the only public entertainment allowed is Friday afternoon executions, which take place in Kabul’s football stadium.
Criminals are shot or hanged and thieves’ hands are cut off. One woman had her thumb amputated for wearing nail varnish.
The Taleban also bans heeled shoes, neck-ties, playing chess, playing music, surfing the internet, having a "US or British hairstyle" and laughing when one is not meant to.
All females are ordered to observe the satar - the Islamic code for women requiring them to wear a traditional borqa, a head-to-toe dress which conceals every part of their body and has only a lace grille to allow them to see the outside world.
Those who do not comply face beatings in the street for showing as much as an ankle in public.
If there actually were anarchy those same hippies would be the first people to get beaten, killed or robbed since these drug-addled sissies are such easy targets.
1."The so-called freedom of women in the West is an illusion and is an insult to women".
2."The women of the West are only concerned with their rights and not at all concerned with their duties and responsibilities as wives and mothers,"
Flame suit on!
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
I think I understand.
That about covers it. Sounds like most liberals' definition of Christianity. They ought to go the Afghanistan and experience the real thing.
Actually, this is incorrect. There is no mention made of this, or any other, "dress code" in the Koran. It is not a religious imperative but rather a societal quirk. This is why women in Iran simply cover their hair with scarves, Muslim women in Turkey and Bosnia observe no dress standard whatsoever, and women in Saudi Arabia observe the head-to-toe "rule."
When was it that women in western cultures stopped adhering to the unwritten "covered head" rule? If you think about it, women of pretty much any social class always covered their heads, some with bonnets, some with hats, some with kerchiefs...eventually, it became soemthing that women did only when in church. You don't really see it in church any more.
...100 lashes as a punishment shot or hanged...hands are cut off...thumb amputated
...beatings in the street
It's for your own good, dear...
"The women of the West are only concerned with their rights and not at all concerned with their duties and responsibilities as wives and mothers," said another demonstrator."
And those responsibilities include raising girls to get shot or hanged, body parts cut off, and beatings in the streets? And your boys abandoned to the brainwashing of the Taliban because you don't want to, or are unable to care for them?
We want to live in a society where we are free to observe those duties.
Well, when you find it Rashida, you be sure to let all of us know.
That gets my vote for the "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" thought of the week.