“The Taliban has banned windows in residential buildings to stop women from being seen while they are at home in Afghanistan.
‘Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts.’”
Independent
The Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, are inherently patriarchic and misogynist by design.
Since seizing power in 2021 the Taliban has declared war on women, blocking them from the workplace, education, and public places. Women are prohibited from singing or reading aloud.
Women are such a threat to the patriarchy that the Taliban seeks to render them invisible. The sight of a women collecting water from a well can lead men to commit “obscene acts.” Are they referring to masturbation; what a sexually repressive theocracy.
Christian fundamentalists are just as misogynist as Islamist fundamentalists. Many evangelical churches cite 1 Corinthians 14: 34-35 as justification from banning women from leadership positions in the church:
“As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.”
The mere sight of a woman is a threat to the established order in the Taliban’s Afghanistan and Trump’s America.
Religious zealots can board up every window in every building but they can’t make women disappear.
