https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html

Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public


By Associated Press
3 minute read
Published 7:17 PM EDT, Thu August 22, 2024




Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are cracking down on the sound of women’s voices in public,
under a strict new set of vice and virtue laws under the Islamist regime.

The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said, and cover aspects of everyday life like public transportation, music, shaving and celebrations.
Azra on the first leg of the more than 1000km journey to escape Afghanistan.


Among the new rules, Article 13 relates to women:
It says it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body at all times in public and that a face covering is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others. Clothing should not be thin, tight or short.

Women are also obliged to cover themselves in front of non-Muslim males and females to avoid being corrupted. A woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. It is forbidden for women to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa.

“Inshallah we assure you that this Islamic law will be of great help in the promotion of virtue and the elimination of vice,” said ministry spokesman Maulvi Abdul Ghafar Farooq on Thursday, of the new laws.


First formal declaration of vice and virtue laws

The 114-page, 35-article document seen by The Associated Press constitutes the first formal declaration of vice and virtue laws in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power in 2021, when it also set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice.”

The laws will empower the ministry to be at the frontline of regulating personal conduct, administering punishments like warnings or arrest if enforcers allege that Afghans have broken the laws.
Girls in Afghanistan learn in secret classes operating under a strict security protocol established by a group in Australia.


The laws ban the publication of images of living beings, threatening an already fragile Afghan media landscape; the playing of music; the transportation of solo female travelers; and the mixing of men and women who are not related to each other. The laws also oblige passengers and drivers to perform prayers at designated times.

According to the ministry website, the promotion of virtue includes prayer, aligning the character and behavior of Muslims with Islamic law, encouraging women to wear hijab, and inviting people to comply with the five pillars of Islam. It also says the elimination of vice involves prohibiting people from doing things forbidden by Islamic law.

Last month, a U.N. report said the ministry was contributing to a climate of fear and intimidation among Afghans through edicts and the methods used to enforce them.

It said the ministry’s role was expanding into other areas of public life, including media monitoring and eradicating drug addiction.

“Given the multiple issues outlined in the report, the position expressed by the de facto authorities that this oversight will be increasing and expanding gives cause for significant concern for all Afghans, especially women and girls,” said Fiona Frazer, the head of the human rights service at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan.

The Taliban rejected the U.N. report.

What more proof of how evil Islam is -  is needed?

They want women to live lives of misery.

Note - we import people with such beliefs to Australia and we're supposed
to respect their religion and get on well with them - go figure?

I wonder what mothra would say about this

The Taliban allows child marriages

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Bobby. wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 2:40pm:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices

Like the tranny activists and their enablers.

No surprise, they are all into boys in vibrantly undiverse afghanistan -- see dancing boys of Afghanistan.
Multiculturalism, innit.

Baronvonrort wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 5:13pm:

The Taliban allows child marriages

Sound like Abu's views on consent.

Frank wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 5:32pm:

Bobby. wrote on Aug 23rd, 2024 at 2:40pm: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices Like the tranny activists and their enablers. No surprise, they are all into boys in vibrantly undiverse afghanistan -- see dancing boys of Afghanistan. Multiculturalism, innit.

What - the gay Taliban?

freediver wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 5:49pm:

Baronvonrort wrote on Aug 23rd, 2024 at 5:13pm: The Taliban allows child marriages Sound like Abu's views on consent.

Islam is permanently priapic a la Mohammed and its devotees are duplicitous about it - like about everything else:


https://x.com/GoldingBF/status/1826575785328537995

Frank wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 6:42pm:

freediver wrote on Aug 23rd, 2024 at 5:49pm: Baronvonrort wrote on Aug 23rd, 2024 at 5:13pm: The Taliban allows child marriages Sound like Abu's views on consent. Islam is permanently priapic a la Mohammed and its devotees are duplicitous about it - like about everything else: https://x.com/GoldingBF/status/1826575785328537995

Good find - he has a point.

You won't see that on TV.  ;)

Still nothing from mothra ... her feminist agenda must be reserved for only Western men

Bias_2012 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 6:58pm:

Still nothing from mothra ... her feminist agenda must be reserved for only Western men

Mothra is online -  we're waiting.

Baronvonrort wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 5:13pm:

The Taliban allows child marriages

Former President Donald Trump praised the Taliban on Tuesday, calling the group “smart” and “good fighters.”

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 8:02pm:

Baronvonrort wrote on Aug 23rd, 2024 at 5:13pm: The Taliban allows child marriages Former President Donald Trump praised the Taliban on Tuesday, calling the group “smart” and “good fighters.”

Good fighters, arse bandits.

You?

Frank wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 8:17pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 23rd, 2024 at 8:02pm: Baronvonrort wrote on Aug 23rd, 2024 at 5:13pm: The Taliban allows child marriages Former President Donald Trump praised the Taliban on Tuesday, calling the group “smart” and “good fighters.” Good fighters, arse bandits. You?

Is the orange rapist an arse bandit as well as a rapist (and convicted felon)?

All this "what aboutism".

Trump isn't a Muslim.

Why is it wrong to talk about the abuses happening due to Islam in Afghanistan?

MattE wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2024 at 6:07am:

All this "what aboutism". Trump isn't a Muslim. Why is it wrong to talk about the abuses happening due to Islam in Afghanistan?

Greg doesn't care about the systematic, institutionalised rape of women and girls. He cares about Trump.

Perhaps he was mistreated by nuns and a fat white man when he was a child.

The Social Studio exhibit Suzani Stories highlights the time-honoured art of Afghani womenf 8-)

Brian Ross wrote on Nov 8^th, 2024 at 12:09pm:

The Social Studio exhibit Suzani Stories highlights the time-honoured art of Afghani womenf 8-)

You silly numpty, you've just made a point about the oppression in Afghanistan

"These artworks are expressions of Afghan women's sisterhood and artistry in the face of increasingly severe silencing"

"But learning embroidery has also been an unhappy experience for some Afghan women. "It was something many of them had learnt because that was all that they were allowed to learn"


"One woman was baffled at the interest in embroidery — why would anyone want to thread a needle when you can hold a pen? Others were reluctant for their daughters to spend time on a practice they associated with oppression"