The Taliban has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn’t cause broken bones or open wounds.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/taliban-new-penal-code-legalizes-domestic-violence-against-women/
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You know, I respect people who use their religion as an impetus to make the world a better place. The civil rights fighters and humanitarian groups that are like, “Hey, our religion tells us that suffering is something we can prevent and alleviate, so we do it.” I like those religious people.
These are NOT those religious people. Therefore, fuck this interpretation of Islam a thousand ways, this is the 21st god damn century.
that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn’t cause broken bones or open wounds.
Sure, as if broken bones or open wounds would motivate an abused helpless victim to go against it or take legal actions. Which they aren’t allowed either.
I so hope religions with their hells are right, so these dimwitted pathetic slavers will rot there in all eternity. But…
