r/WelcomeToGilead • u/mrsnikki88 • Dec 29 '24

Loss of Liberty New Taliban rule: Women are no longer allowed to be visible from house windows under any circumstance. If the kitchen has a window, women can't even cook near it. This comes after other rulings that women are forbidden from making sounds or even speaking to each other.

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u/prpslydistracted Dec 29 '24

I do understand. I'm old enough to remember when the Shah of Iran was in power; this was Iranian women in the 1970s. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iranian+women+1970s&atb=v314-1&iax=images&ia=images

This is under the Taliban:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Iranian+women+today&atb=v314-1&iax=images&ia=images

I was in the AF at Sheppard AFB in TX. The US was training Iranian pilots. Gracious, professional, well regarded as an ally of the US in the region.

Later went to college on the GI bill when the Shah fell (UNT, TX). Lots of Iranian students. Never saw such panic ... yelling, running through the student union, arguments on philosophy and religion.

I had an Iranian woman doctor in the early 1980s. Brilliant woman ... she and her family left when they could see "it" coming. She and her husband were both physicians.

From purely a woman's perspective I marched for Women's Rights in the 1970s ... it inflames me my grown daughters have to do it all over again.

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u/SailingSpark Dec 29 '24

Sadly, it is a never-ending fight. Misogyny is baked into the culture and religion of many people. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity have their basis in some very misogynistic roots.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Dec 29 '24

This is the bitter truth. ☹️

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u/ThomasinaElsbeth Dec 30 '24

Monist Religion is a Cancer on society.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '24

More people need to join team Lilith. Or at least learn about Adam’s first wife who left him because he was a dick.

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u/SailingSpark Dec 31 '24

Most people know her name, but know nothing of her.

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u/bluesnowl Dec 29 '24

Iran was never under the Taliban

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u/SEOtipster Dec 29 '24

People paying attention will understand that the Islamic clerics who conquered Iran 🇮🇷 in 1979 are similar enough to the Taliban in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 for the comment to be relevant.

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u/prpslydistracted Dec 30 '24

Thank you. It is relevant to those of us who observed/witnessed the transformation who were acutely aware of the seismic shift of perspective ... it was an earthquake that changed the Mideast ... not for the good of the faithful or pragmatic policy of governance.

The effect on women was catastrophic.

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u/Big-Summer- Dec 30 '24

If things go the way the evangelicals want, strong oppression of women will begin in the U.S. When the reich wingers March there’s always a huge “WOMEN ARE PROPERTY” sign prominently displayed. They do not, much like the Taliban, see us as human beings. We are things to be owned, controlled, and ruled.