If we want to see how Islam operates, when unencumbered by western democratic norms, we should look to Afghanistan, where the Taliban are reverting to type by re-establishing a brutal theocracy. Instead of tackling the nation’s many economic problems, the pious men fronting the Orwellian-sounding Ministry of Vice and Virtue are busy doing what they do best: curtailing women’s freedom and autonomy.
Women are being forced back into cloth bags, and preferably the full-length, all-enveloping burqa (if womens’ faces are seen in public, then, in a Machiavellian plot twist, it's their male guardians who face fines or prison). Taliban representatives have reneged on their earlier promises to allow teenage girls back into secondary education and women to work outside healthcare and education. Women are being told not to travel anywhere without a male escort, and, basically, to stay at home.
A typical springtime scene around the 'marshland villages'...
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