The escalating bans are reaching new heights of absurdity, with officials in Balkh province in northern Afghanistan banned from calling female patients by their actual names. In May, officials reportedly ordered all hospitals, private practices and clinics to use the word “Bibi” instead of women’s names. They emphasised that this instruction must be observed even on medical prescriptions.
The other absurd restrictions notwithstanding, this feels like such a complete lack of respect for women’s personhood, humanity, existence even. Fuck the Taliban.
Religion is so fucking stupid.
Religion is a convenient excuse for what people were going to do anyway.
Women are also forbidden from becoming doctors. So, healthcare is illegal for women.
#JustConservativeThings
Will certainly not be a problem if a populations females are suddendly dying to stuff solved since medieval times. There will be a population decline and a male overhang in a few years.
Then you’ll get a society, full of angry, religious old men who are definitely not fucking eachother
Men fucking men is against Islamic law. Men fucking boys however…
I’ll be fair and say bacha bazi is controversial in Afghanistan, but it definitely happens.
bacha bazi is controversial
You mean illegal right? It carries the death penalty under Taliban.
Which leads to more war. Great.
I get that part of it is a religious thing, but I literally don’t understand how this makes any sense at all unless suffering is the point. Why would they make things worse for people if they were allowed to do these things before? It accomplishes nothing. I really don’t think this is going to make people rally in support of the government.
for all those who wanted america out of afghanistan glad you got your wish 😔
This is happening because the US invaded Afghanistan.
Unless the plan was to make Afghanistan the 51st state, this was always going to be the result.
In no case has any state been better because of US intervention. Ever.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 96 until the US invaded. Now they’re back in power.
And how and why were they able to obtain power in '96? Because of prior imperial meddling!
The Taliban wouldn’t have been able to stay in power with policies like this if they’d been in power for those entire 30 years. Eventually they’d have collapsed under the contradictions or reformed to be less restrictive.
No, this isn’t happening just because of that. It’s happening because of religion. Nothing more nothing less. What the USSR and the US did over there doesn’t excuse what the religious are doing to it now.
All their neighbors have the same religion, why are they different?
The obvious difference between Afghanistan and their neighbors is they were invaded and occupied. It isn’t an “excuse” but simply an explanation. Reactionary policy like this is a reaction to imperialism; without invasion and prior meddling the Taliban wouldn’t have the political support to implement a policy this backwards.
This won’t last in the long run, a policy like this will collapse their country. Either their population will start to crater as half their population is unable to go to the doctor, or women and the people who love them will start picking up guns. Reactionaries can’t actually reproduce society, it’s always a circular firing squad with them.
