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Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror (www.theguardian.com)

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The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said.

Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the Afghan human rights organisation Women’s Window of Hope, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s.

“With this announcement by the Taliban leader, a new chapter of private punishments has begun and Afghan women are experiencing the depths of loneliness,” Arefi said.

“Now, no one is standing beside them to save them from Taliban punishments. The international community has chosen to remain silent in the face of these violations of women’s rights.”

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[–] Buffalox 140 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And somehow despite being obviously evil and despicable they believe themselves to be the good guys.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Religion is a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion

Christopher Hitchens

[–] Buffalox 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Except drugs aren't always bad.
In reality religion is poison.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also, if we want to talk numbers, I'd guess religion has killed more people than drugs.

[–] MutilationWave 6 points 6 months ago

Orders of magnitude more.

[–] Vikthor 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The difference between drug and poison is dosage.

Taliban is obviously OD.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This though! You can be religious without being a delusional monster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You can’t really be religious, especially a follower of Abrahamic faiths without

A: accepting what the texts actually say, which involves implicit acceptance of abhorrent views

B: cherry picking and denying the abhorrent parts, which means you aren’t actually following the religion at all

If you go with B, you’re not really religious, you’re spiritual and searching for purpose and grabbing the easiest answer available.

Religion is poison

[–] Buffalox 3 points 6 months ago

Well put. 👍

[–] angrystego 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Religion is not always bad, just like people are not always bad generally. I'd agree that fanatism is always bad though.

[–] fastandcurious 7 points 6 months ago

Second this, no matter what you believe, the problem is that here you are forcing it on others by making it a literal state law, and I can guarantee that the taliban will use this to their advantage, not for ‘justice’