The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be covered—no hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a “recommendation” a year ago, now it is the law.
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. . . The ministry published its vice and virtue laws on Wednesday that cover aspects of everyday life like public transportation, music, shaving and celebrations.
They are set out in a 114-page, 35-article document seen by The Associated Press and are the first formal declaration of vice and virtue laws in Afghanistan since the takeover. . . .
Article 13 relates to women. It says it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body at all times in public and that a face covering is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others. Clothing should not be thin, tight or short.
Women are obliged to cover themselves in front of non-Muslim males and females to avoid being corrupted. A woman’s 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.
Article 17 bans the publication of images of living beings, threatening an already fragile Afghan media landscape. . . .
20 years, untold deaths and billions of dollars later the Taliban has been replaced with the Taliban. The morons will decry not continuing to waste lives and national treasure on the project.
The retake of Afghanistan by the Taliban was going to happen regardless of who was President.
Nation building especially with cultures so fundamentally different to ours will rarely if ever be successful.
Those that served in Afghanistan did so honorably and proudly. The failure is not theirs but politicians on both sides who became obsessed with trying to create USA 2.0 for nothing more than personal vanity.
Harris acknowledged being “the last person in the room” when the decision was made to abandon Baghram Airfield and leave Afghanistan asap.
Well thank you very much Cackles guess the 13 dead and wounded US Military personnel never crossed your mind?
So now Afghan women are silenced and invisible. Does that mean when Taliban animals are raping them the women must accept the violence in silence?
I am not sure how differently we could have left Afghanistan. The US operation to nation build had failed and the Taliban retake of the country was happening. I am no expert in Afghanistan politics but my understanding was that in rural areas the Taliban remained strong and in control throughout the US deployment.
There is no way the Taliban would have allowed the US time to withdraw in a more organized and logical way.
Alas the future of Afghan women looks bleak. Their relegation to less than second class citizens is complete.
The US could have left in a method that was honorable. We could have wired all those crates of M4s with plastic explosive, all the trucks and utility vehicles should have been set on fire by the last guys out the door, that sort of stuff.
And they assumed the Afghan (US trained and equipped) military would continue fighting the Taliban. The Afghan military leaders weren’t even notified of the Baghram Airfield abandonment.
Guess the Saigon evacuation didn’t teach anyone anything.
