The Taliban is imposing the fullness of Sharia on its population. Women are viewed as inferior and must be obedient to men; the kaffir West is presented to the Afghan population as enemy territory full of people who are obsessed with Muslims and out to get them.
Taliban teachings about women are not contrary to Islam. Some examples:
“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” Qur’an 4:34
“Your women are a field for you, so go to your field as you will…” Qur’an 2:223
“And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only what is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment except to their own husbands or fathers or husbands’ fathers, or their sons or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or sisters’ sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack desire, or children who know nothing of women’s nakedness. And do not let them stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn to Allah together, O believers, so that you may succeed.” Qur’an 24:31
“O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their veils close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested. Allah is always forgiving, merciful.” Qur’an 33:59
“Taliban bans contraception calling use a ‘western conspiracy,’” by Haroon Janjua, Guardian, February 17, 2023:
Taliban fighters have stopped the sale of contraceptives in two of Afghanistan’s main cities, claiming their use by women is a western conspiracy to control the Muslim population.
The Guardian has learned that the Taliban has been going door to door, threatening midwives and ordering pharmacies to clear their shelves of all birth control medicines and devices.
“They came to my store twice with guns and threatened me not to keep contraceptive pills for sale. They are regularly checking every pharmacy in Kabul and we have stopped selling the products,” said one store owner in the city.
A veteran midwife, who did not want to be named, said she had been threatened several times. She said she was told by a Taliban commander: “You are not allowed to go outside and promote the western concept of controlling population and this is unnecessary work.”
Other pharmacists in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif confirmed that they have been ordered not to stock any birth control medicines.
“Items such as birth control pills and Depo-Provera injections are not allowed to be kept in the pharmacy since the start of this month, and we are too afraid to sell the existing stock,” another shop owner in Kabul said.
It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ended higher education for girls, closed universities to young women, forced women out of their jobs and restricted their ability to leave their homes. Restricting contraceptives will be a significant blow in a country with an already fragile healthcare system.
One in every 14 Afghan women dies of causes related to pregnancy and it is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to give birth….
Gurek says
I miss the old Muslim world during the most parts of the 20th century which was secular and wasn’t anti-West. All of the Muslim world seems to be Islamized.
tim gallagher says
Yep, keep women barefoot and constantly pregnant. What a bunch of knuckle draggers these taliban scumbags are. Certainly a way to make sure that Afghanistan remains a backward, third world hellhole of a country. All of islam is a backward and barbaric load of garbage, a left over from primitive times, but these Taliban scum take it to a new level of idiocy and backwardness.
Viktor Smith says
The economic condition of Afghanistan will remain dire in the near as well as distant future. No improvement in sight.
ConnSCG says
There’s a saying,
“If you can’t win them in a war, breed them out …