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Taliban Bans Sound of Womens Voices
August 23, 2024 at 2:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 154 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/08/23/taliban-bans-sound-of-womens-voices/
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Afghanistans Taliban rulers are cracking down on the sound of womens voices in public, under a strict new set of vice and virtue laws under the Islamist regime, CNN reports.
Women are also obliged to cover themselves in front of non-Muslim males and females to avoid being corrupted. A womans voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. It is forbidden for women to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa.
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There are some seriously fucked up interpretations of religious doctrine in this world. n/t
Alpeduez21
Aug 2024
#4
These men are out of control, love sexual violence, and blame it on the women.
Irish_Dem
Aug 2024
#11
Step by step, this "new" Taliban regime is becoming the original Taliban regime.
Eugene
Aug 2024
#13
Maybe Mexico can invade them, install a puppet government, and empower the RIGHT set of opium warlords
thebigidea
Aug 2024
#32
This degree of hateful coercive misogyny in the name of religion leaves me without words--for now.
Timeflyer
Aug 2024
#23
This just proves why being in a theocracy, no matter what religion it is, isn't a good thing
tornado34jh
Aug 2024
#24
At this rate, the Taliban will ban noise from the goats they rail because it sounds like the goats are laughing at them.
Efilroft Sul
Aug 2024
#29
Religious extremism and nationalism are really fing "human rights" if there is such a thing
Evolve Dammit
Aug 2024
#34