Loading ...New Taliban Vice Laws Forbid Women From Looking At Men, Singing In Public, Solo Travel
Just over three years after taking power in the wake of the disastrously-executed US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban government has issued its first formal vice laws, which include many sharp restrictions on the conduct of women, alongside broader societal rules.
With the formal imposition of the new vice laws, Afghanistan’s women are back where they were before the US invasion and decades-long occupation that squandered the lives of 2,448 US service members and an astonishing $2.3 trillion. In addition to more than 150,000 Afghan dead — only about a third of whom were the purported “bad guys” — the country was left worse off by many measures, such as far higher child malnutrition and poverty levels.
Sharia Law is in the process of being exported to developed world nations – do wives, daughters and granddaughters know how their lives are about to shift?