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Eugene

(62,732 posts)
Sun Sep 1, 2024, 12:04 PM Sep 2024

Afghan women sing in defiance of Taliban laws silencing their voices

Source: The Guardian

Afghan women sing in defiance of Taliban laws silencing their voices

Women push back at law stating they must not sing or read aloud in public by posting videos of themselves singing

Ashifa Kassam and agencies
Sun 1 Sep 2024 15.52 BST
Last modified on Sun 1 Sep 2024 16.39 BST

Afghan women, both inside and outside the country, have posted videos of themselves singing in protest against the Taliban’s laws banning women’s voices in public.

Late last month the Taliban published new restrictions aimed, it said, at combating vice and promoting virtue. The 35-article document, which includes a raft of draconian laws, deems women’s voices to be potential instruments of vice and stipulates that women must not sing or read aloud in public, nor let their voices carry beyond the walls of their homes.

As rights campaigners reacted with horror, Afghan women began pushing back. Across the country, women began uploading videos of themselves singing, in defiance of the Taliban’s systematic efforts to erase women from the public sphere.

“No command, system or man can close the mouth of an Afghan woman,” one 23-year-old said after posting her own video.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/afghan-women-sing-in-defiance-of-taliban-laws-silencing-their-voices



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Afghan women sing in defiance of Taliban laws silencing their voices (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2024 OP
I'm wondering, with the morality police and all Dan Sep 2024 #1
Does the US have any of their money? I remember trump was the one who gave Maraya1969 Sep 2024 #2
What incredibly brave women. niyad Sep 2024 #3
Great Beringia Sep 2024 #4
This really twists BlueSky3 Sep 2024 #5

Dan

(4,123 posts)
1. I'm wondering, with the morality police and all
Sun Sep 1, 2024, 01:02 PM
Sep 2024

Plus our stated beliefs in “Human Rights and Freedom”, why haven’t we shipped several hundred thousand 9mm pistols combined with a million plus full magazines to the women of Afghan? Maybe include a few ten of thousands silencers….

Maraya1969

(23,014 posts)
2. Does the US have any of their money? I remember trump was the one who gave
Sun Sep 1, 2024, 01:06 PM
Sep 2024

the Taliban. (I think it was him - We used to have a bunch of the Taliban's money but VonShitsHispants told them he would give the money back

BlueSky3

(710 posts)
5. This really twists
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 06:23 PM
Sep 2024

my heart. They imprison the women inside Burkas and restrict all their movements, and still they sing. I wonder if Amnesty Intntl. has a funding section for Afghanistan.

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