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Taliban bans women from ‘hearing other women’s voices’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 29 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

“The world has abandoned us,” she added. “They left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies.”

Hear hear.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 55 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

So, now we WANT America to perpetually occupy Afghanistan?

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, there’s also that bit where we funded fundamentalists during the cold war to try and fuck with the soviets, and the imperialism we and the soviets did that led to radicalization. A problem that we exacerbated which bit us back in the ass a few decades later.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

And now the other countries are trying to do similar to us lol.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Saudi was the one who built all the madrassas that created fundie fanatics.

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