Then and Now
No Beauty Salon in the World Can Restore a Face Traumatized By Fear.
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Posted on 07/04/2023 12:02:17 PM PDT by george76
A spokesman at Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry says the Taliban are banning women's beauty salons
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It's the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls, following edicts barring them from education, public spaces and most forms of employment.
A spokesman for the Taliban-run Virtue and Vice Ministry, Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar, didn't give details of the ban. He only confirmed the contents of a letter circulating on social media.
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from the supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. The ban targets the capital, Kabul, and all provinces, and gives salons throughout the country a month's notice to wind down their businesses. After that period, they must close and submit a report about their closure.
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comes days after Akhundzada claimed that his government has taken the necessary steps for the betterment of women’s lives in Afghanistan.
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one beauty salon owner said she was her family's only breadwinner after her husband died in a 2017 car bombing. She didn’t want to be named or mention her salon for fear of reprisals.
Between eight to 12 women visit her Kabul salon every day, she said.
“Day by day they (the Taliban) are imposing limitations on women,” she told The Associated Press. “Why are they only targeting women? Aren't we human? Don't we have the right to work or live?”
Despite initial promises of a more moderate rule than during their previous stint in power in the 1990s, the Taliban have imposed harsh measures since seizing Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces were pulling out.
They have barred women from public spaces, like parks and gyms, and cracked down on media freedoms.
Why do they need to look good with a bag on their head?
Well if you pretty much cover yourself with a Burka, what’s the point?
A nuke would take out a LOT of good people, undeserving of atomization, but the message would resonate in the Muslim world
Well apparently this is what they want.
We gave them our blood and treasure for 20 years to give them a chance.
that was my thinking. no need for salons anymore since nobody will see them outside the home.
so much for wasting 2 decades trying to modernize this country.
If only the US Embassy had offered more Tranny and Pride classes in Kabul, this wouldn’t have happened.
Sounds like a great place to export our liberal women to. Especially hollywood actresses
Funny how you never hear the NOW Gang speak up about these things.
Their cowardly men allow it to happen. The majority of men who were in the Afghan army were in it for the paycheck and had no backbone to fight without brave US soldiers backing them up.
As long as they leave us alone, I don't care. Just import immigrants from Latin America and Philippines and China and India.
After we killed Osama bin Laden, we should have left. Tell our Afghan allies good luck and "**ck it".
Maybe they should just rename them “Women’s Ugly Salons”?
obama only claimed to have killed Osama because he thought that by itself would end the fight with islam...
I bet they dress up their goats.
Where is your tag line from? A google search turns up . . . posts on FR by Track9
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.
Women aren’t allowed to go to school.
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