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Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, and Afghan women despair
WaPo ^ | September 15, 2024 | Rick Noack

Posted on 09/15/2024 4:30:12 AM PDT by Salman

s the Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, Afghan women say that whatever hopes they once harbored for an easing of the severe restrictions on them have largely vanished.

The new religious code issued late last month bans women from raising their voices, reciting the Quran in public, and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives. It requires women to cover the lower half of their faces in addition to donning a head covering they were already expected to wear, among other rules.

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The Taliban’s morality police, which are an extension of the regime’s most conservative elements, appear to have been handed an unprecedented amount of power in the capital, Kabul, and elsewhere, women said. While the morality police’s white robes were a rare sight in Kabul, they have become omnipresent since late August, several women said.

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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; freepersaprove; islam
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WaPo says front page news, but I have marked it editorial.

Emphasis added. Unnamed source, plus those dang conservatives at it again.

1 posted on 09/15/2024 4:30:12 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Thanks Kamala.


2 posted on 09/15/2024 4:33:07 AM PDT by MMusson ( )
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To: MMusson

Kamala? I’m no fan but ...


3 posted on 09/15/2024 4:34:53 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

Islam proxy enforcing sharia law.


4 posted on 09/15/2024 4:35:17 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Salman
The Taliban’s morality police...

...are a far less number than Afghan women.

Take them OUT, girls!

5 posted on 09/15/2024 4:35:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Salman

Biden Harris screwed this up so bad, and we’ve wasted good men and ungodly amounts of money in that hellhole of a nation. It’s on them.
If they raise their heads and try to attack us again, turn it to glass and move on. Nation building BS needs to stop.


6 posted on 09/15/2024 4:37:16 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Salman

Yeah, I noticed the subtle implications of their use of the word *conservative*.


7 posted on 09/15/2024 4:38:39 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Salman
How Satan's animals try to run everyone's lives!

Pray to the real God our Father and reject Satan!

8 posted on 09/15/2024 4:40:15 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: Salman

Painting this as being conservative.
Like right is wrong and wrong is right.
The left media is always hard at work doing the jab without the needle
You think theses middle east women are
(”unburdened by what HAS been)”
This is as in
When barry referenced the car in reverse


9 posted on 09/15/2024 4:40:56 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: Salman

Screw that!

What about the “new trans tyranny laws being enforced by DC. Normal, patriotic, God fearing Americans despair”?


10 posted on 09/15/2024 4:41:17 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: Salman
Even though the Taliban are a bunch of filthy animals that we will have to get rid of one day, you have to admit they have a way of controlling their womyn.
11 posted on 09/15/2024 4:42:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Salman

Did the Post article mention Joe Biden giving Afghanistan over to those Taliban, along with tens of thousands of weapons to enforce their edicts?

I thought not.


12 posted on 09/15/2024 4:43:36 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Recompennation
"Conservative" is a relative phenomenon.

In proper historical context an Afghan "extreme conservative" would be a monarchist, not an American style conservative.

13 posted on 09/15/2024 4:44:35 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

the USA FREED the women for 1 day,
and they were happy; ...
but Hillary, the DNC, and the State Dept. reinforced
the absolute unfair control over them.
Disgusting.

The Afghan women were free for 1 (one) day.


14 posted on 09/15/2024 4:46:10 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: PGalt

“The more feminists become like nazis the more attractive sharia becomes” applies. just think about that last news snippet featuring the hairiest and ugliest women you have ever seen flashing pits and privates on camera and screaming at the sky, at the ground and at men in general. now hold that thought for a few minutes. NOW tell me sharia law doesn’t look so good.


15 posted on 09/15/2024 4:48:07 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: Salman

I guess those strong women the feminist are always talking about being equal to men in sports and meeting the tough physical tests in the military are just going to take up arms and fight for their rights.


16 posted on 09/15/2024 4:57:55 AM PDT by RedMonqey (This is no longer America but "Amerika"!)
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To: Salman

NOT OUR PROBLEM! No more “refugees”!


17 posted on 09/15/2024 4:58:15 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Salman

It’s a good thing the Taliban doesn’t have any guns to back up their diabolical aims…


18 posted on 09/15/2024 5:02:05 AM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: Salman

US women: That’s nothing compared to what we have to endure.


19 posted on 09/15/2024 5:09:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Salman

Sixty years ago, Afghan women in the capital were allowed and encouraged to wear western style clothing. The king at the time wanted to modernize Afghanistan, but the mullahs in the countryside were having none of that. Like Iran, the mullahs won.


20 posted on 09/15/2024 5:19:37 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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