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"Every home becomes a prison:" Now, Taliban stops Afghan women from sightseeing (www.firstpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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“Not content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature, as we see from this latest ban on women visiting Band-e-Amir,” Human Rights Watch’s Associate Women’s Rights Director Heather Barr says.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And a larger group; the vast majority of Muslim men, who favor this but don’t act on it much beyond voicing their support.

I'll just say that most of us are not like this, speaking as a Muslim guy from a Muslim country. Like seriously we've got some nutjobs here, but people who think women shouldn't be able to leave their homes are vanishingly rare (at the very least I've never seen any, and my social circle isn't particularly liberal).

[+] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] garden_boi@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously though, people are not black-and-white. You cannot just state some random criterion and postulate that whoever doesn't match it, is just as bad as the Taliban themselves. Black-and-white is never how real life works.