Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home.

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    1 year ago

    They “promised” it to provide plausible deniability and to reduce widespread outrage that could trigger a state to intervene with the process. Everyone knew they were going to ramp up the misogyny sooner or later.