The Taliban has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn’t cause broken bones or open wounds.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/taliban-new-penal-code-legalizes-domestic-violence-against-women/
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I found it ironic when most screamed that “We shouldn’t have been there in the first place!” and “Finally the injustice is ending!” when the US withdrew. It was very clear to me from the start that for a majority of the afghan people, life would get significantly worse under the Taliban. Was the invasion a sham? Yes. Did a lot of innocent people get killed? Also yes. But the invasion brought a significant liberation for women especially.
The US helped create this problem
https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/How-the-US-and-Soviet-War-Created-the-Taliban-Pakistans-Strategy-and-Saudi-Arabias-Funding-Role/
Disagreed. Modern talibans are a direct reaction to the invasion. Extremist ideologies tends to be more resilient against invasions, and after the invadors leave, that extremism turns inwards.
Except one of the reasons the Taliban took over the country as fast as they did is that the US backed government_(2025_report))
. The US-backed government was a rotten corrupt cesspool that gave its subjects marginally more civil rights at the cost of plunging the country into decades of civil/“civil” war and destroying any chance at development and progress due to its rampant corruption and incompetence. They did a couple of things right (though very half assed), but it’s downright comical to talk about “liberation” when two thirds of the population were illiterate. Not to say the Taliban are any better at these things, but at least the Taliban don’t have the world’s strongest military backing them.
They had education, sports and more rights for girls and now they don’t.
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And who is going to invade the USA for the same, above, reasons?
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No? How’s it going over there regarding reproductive rights?
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