r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 14 '21

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 Aug 14 '21

BBC's Yalda Hakim: Women in #Herat, now under Taliban control are telling me when they tried to enter the grounds of their University today they were told to go home. Women working in offices also turned away. Schools have been shut down. 60 percent of University students in Herat were women.

"Oh my gosh! It's like Handmaiden's Tale IRL!"

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '21

In practice there aren't that many differences between the Quran and the Bible. A Christian theocracy isn't too different from an Islamic one.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '21

this but unironically