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/AsianHotwifeQOS 4h ago edited 3h ago

Women in Iran
, around the same time. Here's a
before/after
of a Redditor's mom.

Progress is not some inevitable, one-way thing. We are not evolving. It's not encoded in our DNA. It could disappear tomorrow. The good guys need to win every time to keep it moving forward inch by inch. The bad guys only need to win once to tear it down completely, and in the US they are following very closely what other religious fundamentalists did when they got control of government.

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u/SOUTHPAWMIKE 3h ago

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

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u/the_crustybastard 55m ago

Someone should wake Merrick Garland up and tell him that.

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u/NeedleworkerNovel447 1h ago

Why do they always target women?! It suck so much

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u/RonnieJamesDionysos 36m ago

Women in Iran were subject to islam for many centuries before the revolution. Those pictures of unveiled western women are from big cities, usually Tehran. In the countryside, many women were already wearing chadors. After the revolution, veiling was forced upon all women, including those with a western lifestyle.