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"Every home becomes a prison:" Now, Taliban stops Afghan women from sightseeing
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I’ve always wondered how a theocracy that follows it’s rules as strict as the Taliban can rationalize their terrible state and misfortune when the enemies of their god are what the religious would consider “blessed”.
As a Muslim the idea that if you're a good person you'll have a good life doesn't exist, and there's actually a hadith stating that the stronger one's belief in Allah the more Allah tests one.
Also as a Muslim, those guys are making their own rules and then following them. I seriously have no idea where in the Quran or Sunnah they found "Don't let women visit national parks".
I'll just say that most of us are not like this, speaking as a Muslim guy from a Muslim country. Like seriously we've got some nutjobs here, but people who think women shouldn't be able to leave their homes are vanishingly rare (at the very least I've never seen any, and my social circle isn't particularly liberal).
Seriously though, people are not black-and-white. You cannot just state some random criterion and postulate that whoever doesn't match it, is just as bad as the Taliban themselves. Black-and-white is never how real life works.
Hey, I know this can be an issue that strikes a nerve. That said, acknowledging nuance is important to having a productive conversation. Judging everyone by a set standard and having unkind words for not meeting that standard even before you know much about the person you are engaging with is not going to be productive, and it's not particularly nice either.
To be clear, I do not intend to ask you to tolerate oppression. By all means you should oppose oppression strenuously! But being harsh to someone you disagree with online is not the way to do that. In the future, please try your best to disengage from the conversation for a bit until you are in a better headspace.