Increased Flogging of Women by the Taliban: The Urgent Need for International Accountability to End the Brutality - Feminist Majority Foundation
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In March of this year, the Taliban’s Supreme Leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, announced that the Taliban regime would resume the public stoning of women for crimes like adultery. The Taliban argues that this is “in line with Sharia and Islamic law” and will also punish other “moral crimes” in a similar fashion.   Since the Taliba […]
  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    213·
    3 months ago

    Guys, just one more invasion and we’ll save those poor backwards people from themselves. They just need like 1,092 3,765 10,462 31,211 more drone strikes.

    • Sternout@feddit.de
      31·
      3 months ago

      Military interventions can work for the better. But not if the goal is to exploit the country of course.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        It might have worked if Dubya hadn’t screwed up so badly. Then the Iraq invasion destroyed all chances of success.

  • Lyre@lemmy.ca
    14·
    3 months ago

    “Human rights advocates across the world note that religious justification, especially one that has no legitimate basis in Quran, does not excuse the brutal treatment of women and human rights violations.”

    Unfortunately the Quran includes plenty of justification for the abuse of women. In at least one surah its outright ordered by god. One of the main problems the quran faces as a religious text is that it is meant to be the literal words of god and cannot be re-interpreted as a human opinion or mistranslation. Some very bad things are stated as direct moral imperatives given by the creator of the universe.

    • neonred@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 months ago

      One of the reasons Islam is an especially fucked up religion which is inherently incompatible with modern human culture.