Women are banned from talking in public

[Washingupdone]

Women through new laws issued by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, are now banned on speaking in public as a woman's voice is considered "intimate" and should not be heard. I feel so sad and helpless for their situation. At least I am educated and in this situation would try to limit birth control without my husband being aware of my actions, if I could.
Does anyone know how they can be helped?

You would choose to leave the boy babies and children with the men? As a mother of two little boys under five, this makes me so sad. Unless you believe all males are born unchangeably evil.

Some do (escape and claim asylum) and end up on the receiving end of the anti migrant rhetoric. They're not seen as real people.

"This. Send all the hate preachers and rapists to Afghanistan and rescue all the women and girls."

Leaving male babies behind?

Thank you so much for this. I will set up a direct debit. Just by luck that’s not us and our daughters.

Bingo. Or even the pink pussy hat marches of 2016. Tumbleweed now eh.

Under 3s could go. After about that age they're subject to toxic male socialisation which they all absorb by osmosis.

The slow slaughter of women that the world sat back, watched and did nothing about. We as a species should be so incredibly proud of ourselves. /S

Sounds like they have turned the clock back a thousand years.

It's worse, women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses. They have to cover their faces when in public and cannot look at non blood relatives. The Taliban are also bringing back public stoning and flogging.

This is what I don’t understand either, and why the Islamic nations don’t call it out. They do when their Muslim brothers are being killed and oppressed but not their sisters. Women aren’t worth it clearly.

Yes without a doubt.

And the children who are boys yoo, so they can be raised without being brainwashed.

I said something similar to my husband last night. It feels like a grand reset is the only viable option for Afghanistan at this point. The Taliban wouldn't be able to get away with this without the support of a majority of the men in the country.

Well no, it's not. Which is why I said it's all anti Islamic so I'm not sure what their justification is.

@Washingupdone how are these Taliban ‘created’? Who’s behind the brainwashing of these sorry excuses for men? You’d hope the pendulum will swing back again, but can banning wome from speaking actually be real?? If so, nothing will be done. It seems the world doesn’t care about the mass slaughter/starvation going on in Gaza, the apartheid regime in Israel and the occupied territories, the appalling situation in Sudan and the Congo, the dreadful state of women’s safety in India and Pakistan, just to name a few. Look at what’s happening to women’s health rights in America. The world, or at least the governments, don’t care. Women don’t count, especially brown or black women. Look at the maternity care/death or birth injury rates for woc in the UK. I don’t know what the solution is but the misogyny is becoming a major global problem.

I wish we were seeing hoards of women leaving the country and seeking asylum.

How I wish this could be so.

I feel as though one thing that we can do is discuss head coverings and the oppression of some women in this country in a respectful way. I feel concerned that talking about religious culture has become somewhat of a no go due to accusations or fear of being called racist or bigoted, yet there are communities within the UK where women are less valued. And of course there is the likes of Andrew Tate and his toxicity and a growing culture of misogynism. I think that talking about these issues generally and achieving what we can when we can is important. I'm really not sure that there is much that we can do about the Taliban. I feel as though, if the country wants change, it has to come from a fight from within, with assistance from neighbouring countries. It's time for men who aren't members of the Taliban to stand up for their wives, mothers and daughters.

Well I look forward to hearing the Islamic leaders condemnations, and the pro-Islam left leading the protests then.

They can't leave.

Women aren't allowed to travel without a male family member to escort them, they have to cross into Iran or Pakistan to apply for a visa which they have to initially do undocumented which is difficult and dangerous.

Thanks for the link to the charity.

Thanks for the charity link

Can you imagine if we were to ship out all the young women and girls and just leave the men to fester in their own dirty laundry with no 12 year old girls to force into marriage. It would be the best experience ever. See how their views might just change when they're actually left to cope without women.

Well in a nutshell, the Taliban are the sons of the mujahideen who fought against the Russians. They were raised in war and its aftermath and educated in schools using a hardline version of Islam funded by Saudi Arabia.