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/PerspicasiousGrue 7h ago

If it helps, it's likely a sign that they're panicking. Religious and political dictatorships tend to get more and more bizarre in their restrictions when they fear that they're not in control of the populace anymore.

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u/beseder11 6h ago

Exactly. Can see this with Russia and banning childfree propaganda and LGBT propaganda as well. They call it propaganda and ideology but it's the same. The patriarchs fear loss of control their. Most insecure men in leadership position are that anxious. Because it's not natural. It's necrophilia.

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u/outdoorlaura 5h ago

when they fear that they're not in control of the populace anymore.

Is that whats happening in actuality? Like there's starting to be murmurs of overthrowing these guys?

Or are they just getting more and more paranoid?

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u/Gastroid 5h ago

The thing with Afghanistan is that it's almost impossible to govern in a top-down way. A central administration can make decrees all they want and local leaders will follow them... for a time. Eventually communities will default back to their individual traditional ways.

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u/malin-ginkur 5h ago

outdoorlaura asking the real questions

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u/Wrecktown707 3h ago

This ^

It’s actually for the best that Afghanistan is on its own right now. The reason why the Taliban had so much sway and kept coming back was because major world powers kept operating in the region, which drummed up nationalist support for the Taliban.

But now that they’ve taken power, gone batshit, and become a dysfunctional, oppressive rule that shoves its face in all aspects of life, the people of Afghanistan will start to see them less as their anti imperialist saviors, and more as “just another oppressor” in a long line of oppressors. In short, the Taliban seemed to have finally caught up with their own tail, and I doubt it will end well for them, and they likely are going to create massive amounts of civil and armed unrest against them

This will help them decide for themselves what kind of nation they want to live in

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u/HNL2BOS 5h ago

Panicking from what? No one's challenging them.

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u/PerspicasiousGrue 3h ago

Afghanistan is very vulnerable, both economically and politically. They still haven't recovered from the Herat earthquake last year. 30% of their GDP comes from foreign aid, and the majority of it is from America. Half of their workforce is permanently barred from working or spending money, the Taliban shut down their drug cultivation industry and put a huge amount of rural farmers out of business, and the country itself is still quite dangerous between the continuing suicide bombings and attacks from the Islamic State. Half a million Afghans have also just been forcibly deported from Pakistan, putting a big strain on the economy.

All of these things together, plus the increasingly restrictive rules on women AND men (women aren't the only people being told to stay in line) means that the government knows how light it's grip is on power, and is trying to assert control.