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Taliban bans women from ‘hearing other women’s voices’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They're aiming for being carbon neutral with speaking.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Is the government over there closeted homosexuals or what?

They seem to fit the bill pretty well based off the R politicians getting doxxed on Grindr.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

How long until they run of of ideas and just ban all women entirely

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see this as just another step towards the extremes of ridiculousness that is fundamentalist Islamic religion. Imagine being so disconnected from existence, and being so hypnotised by words, that you would subjugate those in your culture who, through their natural virtue, embody the positive characteristics of the very god they describe and worship such as love, compassion, acceptance, understanding, yeilding, giving etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If only this sort of dangerous nonsense were the purview of just fundie Muslims. Fundie Christians would and will do the same things should they gain absolute power.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right. Margaret Atwood based the Handmaid's Tale as a combination of things that have happened somewhere, and she arguably didn't go far enough.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Controversial statement: We shouldn’t have left.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actually, US occupation of Afghanistan was a huge waste of money. We should have settled for, leave us alone and we will leave your wretched bronze age asses alone. Fuck with us and we will kill you all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Uh huh...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

I agree. I protested the war when it started, but it did start, and it did continue, and Trump's move to free all those Taliban prisoners and basically give the country to them was one tmof the most shameful things America has done in a long time. But Trump loves fascists and the Taliban are fascists.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

U.S. conservatives furiously taking notes...

[+] [email protected] -35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I thought leftists were the ones who like Islam? Or did it switch again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It’s that leftists “like Islam”, it’s just that they are generally not broadly xenophobic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You had me believing you thought in the first half of your comment but then your proved otherwise

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Leftists are largely non-religious, rightists are the religious fanatics.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I know. Yet every time someone criticizes Islam on the internet, leftists jump in to accuse them of racism. I find this inconsistency weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The problem is religious fanaticism. It doesn't matter what the flavor of your extreme fundamentalist religion, the cyanide Koolaid it represents will kill you. Don't think for a minute that extreme fundamentalist Christians wouldn't do similar stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I definitely agree that fundamentalist Christians are also bad. Why are you assuming I don’t?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those people are defending non-extremist Muslims, not all Islam. There's a huge difference, though I don't expect you to grasp it based on the general level of ignorance you've displayed thus far.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Muslims are by definition supporters of Islam. By defending their beliefs, you are defending Islam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They're not defending their beliefs, they're defending their right to exist. It's the same thing they do for Christians and Jews and Buddhists etc etc etc.

See? I told you you wouldn't get it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s interesting that they don’t extend the logic to, say, Nazis. I am Personally consistent on this: both Muslims and Nazis should have the right to exist, but not to force their views on others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never met a Muslim that wanted to kill three quarters of society, but that's the only kind of Nazi you could ever possibly meet. It's kind of their only thing. Tolerance of intolerance only leads to more intolerance. It's why people who are lactose-intolerant should avoid lactose. Society is, by nature, Nazi-intolerant, Nazis make society shit itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tolerance of intolerance only leads to more intolerance.

Then why do you tolerate the ideology that wants to kill atheists and homosexuals?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Christians? They're pretty baked in to the American system, good luck excising that tumor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Good thing I don’t live in the USA. Most people here are neither Christians nor Muslims.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eexactly as I said: you apply different standards to Nazis than to Muslims, even though both are a hateful ideology based on killing undesired people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Go look at my comment history.

I'm not a Muslim apologist. I am not a fan of religion in general and Islam in particular. I've been downvoted to hell for being against Hamas and Hazbollah. So, nah, I'm pretty consistent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry, I assumed that from the context. In that case, your standards are consistent, which is fine by me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Predicting in 20 years, all afghani women have super deep voices because they only ever hear men speak

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It feels like the Taliban is just passing more and more ridiculous subjugation laws to try and get the west to attack them again so that they can go back to riding camels and shooting AKs with their 'brothers' instead of enduring the hell of office work and family life that is modern society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They are totally free to do that now without the US attacking them. Hopefully the US has learned the lesson that Afghanistan is not worth invading nor "saving".

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

Project 2025 energy.

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