New Taliban penal code puts husbands on par with ‘slave masters’ and legalises domestic violence

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The Taliban has published a new penal code enshrining some of its most backward practices into the law of the land in Afghanistan, with women in particular set to suffer at the hands of the courts.

Signed by the hardline Islamist group’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, the 90-page criminal code includes anachronistic stipulations harking back to Islamic scripture, such as different levels of punishment depending on whether the offender is “free” or “a slave”.

It effectively creates a new caste system of upper and lower members of Afghan society, allowing religious leaders or mullahs at the top virtual immunity from criminal prosecution and setting out the harshest punishments for those of the working class.

Perhaps most alarmingly, the code effectively appears to put women on a par with “slaves”, with clauses stating that either “slave masters” or husbands can mete out discretionary punishment in the form of beatings to their wives or subordinates.

Article continues at https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/taliban-new-criminal-code-afghanistan-women-b2916579.html

Utter shits. I notice we're not invading them now though.

Not just Taliban

saw this and couldn’t believe it.

https://x.com/lizarosen0000/status/2023126638397927903?s=46

I think that's from Iran. Fucking hell.

No oil. According to the couple who were held prisoner - and released thanks to Qatari intervention - the Taliban consider that they are the perfect government, so improvement seems unlikely.
St. Paul tells wives to obey their husbands and tells husbands to love their wives. I cannot remember anywhere in the NT that suggests a husband has the right to beat his wife or treat her in any way as other than a partner and a person, his equal before God. And these precepts are older than Islam so how come husbands being allowed to hit their wives and wives being the equivalent of slaves are ideas hanging around in Islamic scriptures?

Feminists who marched for Gaza stayed utterly silent in the face of what Iran did to its own people. I am still wondering why that is.
As to the video, how nice to have it set out plainly that in a war Muslim men are allowed to rape captives. Explains Oct 7th very well, and why the rapes and murders were broadcast by the men carrying them out. It might explain the UK grooming gangs too, if the perpetrators consider that being in the UK equates to being in a state of war against Muslims (although I think the grooming gangs have more to do with in groups and out groups tbh).

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Afghan women...

This subject is on Times radio just now. It's horrifying.

How is this not being discussed more? Is it just due to the difficulty getting journalist reports from Afghanistan?
I've never been so grateful for my freedoms and the relative safety I enjoy.

I think it is discussed, but the reality is nobody know what they can do.

Not just the terrible restrictions on women, but the difficulty of getting any reporters into the country, and if they do, will only be able to see and report about that they are allowed to see.

And of course with the restrictions on communications, eg the internet, it isn't as though anyone brave enough in Afghanistan would be easily able to share information.

To mark International Women's Day, a human rights defender has anonymously shared her story.

https://news.sky.com/story/my-hands-were-shaking-my-body-cold-afghan-women-and-girls-forgotten-under-taliban-rule-13516823

The thing is that none of this is surprising if you look at the history and culture. Women are effectively livestock - it wasn’t so long ago that they were branded along with the cattle etc. The Western mindset is entirely alien.