New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups.

The Taliban published a host of new “vice and virtue” laws last week, approved by their supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, which state that women must completely veil their bodies – including their faces – in thick clothing at all times in public to avoid leading men into temptation and vice.

Women’s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions. Women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses.

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Imagine being so insecure that you need someone to literally hide every aspect of their being so that you don’t get aroused and can’t control yourself. Fucking weak-willed cowards.

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This really sounds more like the men should be kept inside …

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If the sight or sound of a woman triggers their weak little boners, then yes.

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What about drones zooming around with sweet women sounds? Is there a gofundme for that somewhere?

These countries must be stopped and everyone liberated. It’s worse than life imprisonment.

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Nah, that’s all bullshit. It’s, as per usual about a small group of people at the top wanting to control everyone else. Those at the top won’t be limited by details like rules, they’ll rape and steal what they can. It’s the rest that’ll bmhave to suffer under them.

I guess it’s just the result of undiagnosed and untreated psychopathy

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Taliban men must be the weakest in the world if they can’t even hear a woman’s voice without being shoved into temptation. Do they all just instantly nut when a wrist bone slides out from the veil?! Talk about not having any confidence in themselves.

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I understand temptation. You just have to, you know, resist. It’s called being a mature adult, or something along those lines.

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They should tie one guy to a pole then blind and deaf the rest of themselves.

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They’re no different from men anywhere else. It’s only a justification for control.

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Their thinking is so backwards and cognitively dissonant it is maddening. I wish the women could successfully rise up and overthrow these shitstain people that call themselves “men.”

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Unfortunately quite a few of the women support it. The truth is there were enough supporters of democracy and sharia to make either work. The elite prefer sharia though because it offers more control and aligns with tribal structures better.

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“This document not only violates Afghanistan’s domestic laws but also broadly contravenes all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

They didn’t think it could be done, but I knew I could do it. All 30 articles in one law!

— A Taliban, probably

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Conservatives, of any religion or ethnicity.

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Afghan are not arab.

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True, but the Taliban religion is Arab.

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Their religion is Islam, which has no race or ethnicity. There’s more Indian, Pakistani, and Indonesian Muslims than anywhere else.

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