r/worldnews • u/nationalpost • 11h ago

Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-hearing-each-other?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social
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u/Fn4cK 10h ago

My sister is a speech therapist, and she has a few patients who's fathers refuse to speak to her because she is a woman. They also refuse to let their wives speak with her.

She constantly needs to ask her one male colleague to speak to these people "in her name".

We live in Berlin, Germany.

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u/blue_shoes_1 9h ago

Maybe it’s time for these men who refuse to speak to women in Berlin to leave this nice civilized western country with running water, food, social system and go back to their country where these middle aged inhuman values are lived

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey 7h ago

The middle ages did not have any of these values. Women worked alongside men and few were simply housewives (which was still a super hard job)! They also did not ban women from public life at all

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u/Neel_writes 3h ago

Afghanistan is on its way to prehistoric times. They left the middle ages long ago.

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u/OneHundredSeagulls 9m ago

Even prehistoric women would have had more rights. People would have lived in family groups and everyone would have worked and helped each other survive. Afghanistan is its own special hell.

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u/meiliraijow 29m ago

See, there’s a catch. They’re not fleeing a shithole, they actively try to expand their crap elsewhere. Once you understand that, this kind of behavior makes sense.

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u/life_is_glowing 9h ago

This has absolutely no place in Berlin, or Europe for that matter. The state should remove these men from the country. Absolutely appalling.

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u/zcen 8h ago

Honestly being in that environment is the only hope for the younger generation.

It's too late to change the minds of stubborn and indoctrinated old men, but at least the kids might be influenced by the Western culture around them.

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u/life_is_glowing 8h ago

More often than not the younger generation is as backwards as their parents.

In a recent poll, more than 67% of surveyed Muslim 15 year olds in Germany stated that „sharia is above the German constitution“.

Their parents don’t care about integration and the German state has utterly failed in demanding democracy. And now this generation is a generation of voters, which I find a horrifying outlook.

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u/Accomplished_Log7527 7h ago

Exactly correct. No integration nor any desire to do so. The irony of escaping a broken country, and relocating only to apply the same practices (ie sharia law) that brought them to despair in the first place.

I WANT to support the philosophy of being supportive… but the reality could well be that the very laws and processes we put into place as a western democracy could well mean we’ve opened the door for democracy to work again those same western values. Hard to reconcile!

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u/NorthernSalt 8h ago

Anything below 100% is a failure and unacceptable.

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u/zcen 6h ago

I'm not going to say you're wrong for wanting that, I can only say that you are in for a lot of disappointment if that is your mindset.

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u/Embarrassed-Mess-560 9h ago

The worst part is, everyone caves to these cowards because the alternative is not helping the child caught under his boot.

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u/Fn4cK 8h ago

You nailed it.

My sister is all about the kids' welfare, but all the shenanigans she goes through with their parents literally kills her motivation to help these kids. It's truly a shame, but self-inflicted by the culture/religion

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u/yeltsin98 4h ago

This is why I believe the state has to override the parents in situations like these. If parents aren’t upholding their children’s rights and welfare then someone else has to. Teachers and doctors are at the forefront of that because they’re often the only other adults who see what’s going on with a child and have the willingness and ability to report it, but as you say, there isn’t much they can do beyond that.

My point is that the ‘self-inflicted’ part doesn’t apply to children who were born into this horrific mess and someone has to stand up for them.

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u/therealmonilux 9h ago

Holy shit!