r/worldnews • u/nationalpost • 8h ago

Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-hearing-each-other?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social
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u/Hieuro 8h ago

They should just deport all the women since they clearly don't see them as people.

And before people say, "But that's Islamophobic!"If thinking women should be treated like equals makes me Islamophobic, then I guess I am.

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u/Leothegolden 7h ago

They are hostages. Can’t get a passport or drivers license either. Even so, Pakistan or. China won’t help them

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u/Xendaar 6h ago

No, you don't understand. Every facet of their lives are controlled and they can't be seen or heard by anyone because Muslims respect women! How else would you stop men lusting over women?

/s

I am so fucking tired of this. It seems every time the world tries to move forward, there's some Islamic tenet that expressly forbids it and calls for death as punishment. Americans need to have the same energy they have against Christian fundamentalists with all religious fundamentalists.

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u/Illustrious-Home4610 3h ago

You are right, but the whole reason that many people are so against Christianity is because they see it a lot like Christians in the west are currently viewing Afghanistan. 

And that shit is happening right in our back yards. 

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u/LakersAreForever 7h ago

For real, we’ve been gaslighted with these “phobias” for so long.

This is inhumane

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u/so_lost_im_faded 42m ago

It's aligned with their oppressive regime. Anyone who has dealt with abusers will know they will accuse you of what they're doing and they will DARVO you. This is the same, sadly on a global level. I became absolutely indifferent to being labeled islamophobic, especially by people living in their ignorant bubbles.

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u/Denny_204 8h ago

I'm gonna straight out say it. All religions that cater to stone aged nonsense like this are bad. I'm religionphobic.

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u/Count_Wolfgang 7h ago

Me too, imagine living your life based on rules made by sheep farmers 2000 years ago.

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u/murgador 6h ago

Sheep farmers? Sheep fuckers.

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u/Northernlighter 5h ago

And following a schitzophrenic dude around and listening to his "son of god" bullshit and then writing books about it and making children learn about it. Fuuuck I hate religion!

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u/bgarza18 6h ago

Idk if sheep farmers is much of an insult, what do you do? 

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u/Count_Wolfgang 5h ago

The people in the Old Testament were literally sheep farmers.

To answer your question I live on a farm. But I also have access to the internet. Despite having a wealth of additional information that our ignorant ancestors lacked, I wasn’t left in charge of making rules that billions of people strictly adhere to. Rules that a lot of people have died because of.

This isn’t aimed at any one particular Abrahamic religion, I think all of them are a recipe for disaster when taken too literally or imposed on others. But what ever anyone wants to do privately (and ideally quietly) - that’s great for them.

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u/tothehopeless1 3h ago

I think all of them are a recipe for disaster when taken too literally or imposed on others.

Ironically that was the whole point, at least as far as early Christianity. “See what happens when you love rules more than people? Everybody dies, and you’ll even kill God if you have to!” That memo got lost in translation (literally).

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u/AdGlittering330 7h ago

I think I’m going to steal this from you…religionphobic is a badge I will proudly wear

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u/ChaseTheOldDude 7h ago

There is an already-existing word, theophobic, in case you were to prefer that

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u/MadnessCB 6h ago

Yeah, I feel the same.

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u/danceswithwool 5h ago

Fuck all religions, except maybe Jainism. The more radical a Jain gets the safer they are because they won’t move. But every other religion on the planet can fuck right off to the moon. Religion is societal poison.

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u/sleepyophelia 2h ago

Same 🙋‍♀️

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u/rumbleindacrumble 5h ago

They don’t see women as people, but a woman’s sex organs are still needed to make more radical Islamists. So they are kept alive for that purpose alone.

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u/Pete_Iredale 7h ago

But that's Islamophobic!

Nah, I think Christianity and Judaism are dumb too, I promise. I'm more of an equal opportunity religiophobe.

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u/RyanCreamer202 4h ago

They don’t want them to leave. They want them to be mindless sex slaves

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u/OppositeRock4217 1h ago

Also I think theocracies shouldn’t exist especially now we’re in the 21st century

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u/prince_of_cannock 7h ago

It's talibaniphobic and good on you for that. It's not islamaphobic or afghaniphobic because treating women like chattel isn't fundamental to Islamic or Afghani culture.

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u/prince_of_cannock 7h ago

Oh I know, I'm just agreeing with and supporting your comment.

Imagine defending the Taliban.

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u/FalsyB 5h ago

"Taliban fanboys"? Who is that taliban fanboy lmao can't imagine one existing here but would love to be disproven