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New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups.

The Taliban published a host of new “vice and virtue” laws last week, approved by their supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, which state that women must completely veil their bodies – including their faces – in thick clothing at all times in public to avoid leading men into temptation and vice.

Women’s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions. Women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses.

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

True, but the Taliban religion is Arab.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Their religion is Islam, which has no race or ethnicity. There's more Indian, Pakistani, and Indonesian Muslims than anywhere else.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I use it in the context that you would use american. It can refer to a group or nationality, but it can also be used as a cultural descriptor, referring to the export of cultural beliefs and customs. This includes things like religion, but also includes language, customs, ethics, tradition.