So women can’t go to university and receive a medical degree, and men can not give women medical attention? My heart goes out to Afghan women.
Do NOT defend this for being “a cultural thing.” Healthcare is one of the few cases where Islam explicitly goes “ignore the whole halal/haram thing for a while.” It’s plain sexism. They are oppressing women.
Religion is so fucking stupid.
Religion is a convenient excuse for what people were going to do anyway.
I don’t think normal people of any particular inclination would ban women from being treated by male doctors while also banning women from becoming doctors. For something that insane, you need religion.
Women are also forbidden from becoming doctors. So, healthcare is illegal for women.
#JustConservativeThings
Aren’t the few existing female doctors still able to practice? Or did they get banned now?
The Taliban banned them. It is illegal for women to practice medicine now.
This isn’t conservative, it’s regressive.
Roe v Wade would like a word
What exactly do you think conservatives are “conserving”?
The status quo. The Democrats are the current conservative party. They’re doing everything they can to not allow any change.
We don’t know that yet. The election just happened
The escalating bans are reaching new heights of absurdity, with officials in Balkh province in northern Afghanistan banned from calling female patients by their actual names. In May, officials reportedly ordered all hospitals, private practices and clinics to use the word “Bibi” instead of women’s names. They emphasised that this instruction must be observed even on medical prescriptions.
The other absurd restrictions notwithstanding, this feels like such a complete lack of respect for women’s personhood, humanity, existence even. Fuck the Taliban.
In most provinces, male doctors have also received orders and directives from the Taliban instructing them not to examine female patients. The doctors say they are not allowed to examine or provide emergency care to female patients, except under specific conditions – such as the presence of a female patient’s male guardian (mahram), or having certain procedures performed by female nurses.
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“I don’t know what kind of situation this is. In a city where not a single female doctor can be found, how can they impose so many restrictions? Human life has no importance to them at all,” one patient told the Guardian and Zan Times.
These fucking asshole dickheads. I really fucking hate this.
I am appalled at both the stupidity of this restriction and the reaction of the religion haters who jump on this.
Like, suddenly Afghanistan has become the only Muslim country representative of the faith and the other 96% of the Muslims who have always admitted patients regardless of their gender don’t count.
If you can’t see that this decision is cultural and uses religion as an excuse then you have some reflecting to do. Criticize these idiots, not the religion.
I am sympathetic and agree that Islamic extremism is too readily taken to represent Islam broadly. However the argument that this is more “cultural” than “religious” doesn’t quite work for Afghanistan because it is actually a true theocracy where the clergy govern and hold ultimate political power. So there’s no “non-religion” entity that’s merely using religion. In this case, government policy and religious dictates are one and the same.
I wouldn’t say the religion in question is quite the same religion practiced by most other Muslims, more an extreme denomination
No. Criticize these assholes AND religion. It’s a cudgel used worldwide.
Will certainly not be a problem if a populations females are suddendly dying to stuff solved since medieval times. There will be a population decline and a male overhang in a few years.
Then you’ll get a society, full of angry, religious old men who are definitely not fucking eachother
Men fucking men is against Islamic law. Men fucking boys however…
I’ll be fair and say bacha bazi is controversial in Afghanistan, but it definitely happens.
bacha bazi is controversial
You mean illegal right? It carries the death penalty under Taliban.
And yet, if you keep reading that same article it says it still happens.
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Which leads to more war. Great.
I get that part of it is a religious thing, but I literally don’t understand how this makes any sense at all unless suffering is the point. Why would they make things worse for people if they were allowed to do these things before? It accomplishes nothing. I really don’t think this is going to make people rally in support of the government.
It’s pretending to be a religious thing.
unless suffering is the point.
Catholics just nod and sigh.
