The Taliban have been revisiting rulings made under the US-backed government, overturning thousands of cases.

There is a young woman sheltering under a tree between two busy roads clutching a pile of documents to her chest.

These pieces of paper are more important to Bibi Nazdana than anything in the world: they are the divorce granted to her after a two-year court battle to free herself from life as a child bride.

They are the same papers a Taliban court has invalidated - a victim of the group’s hardline interpretation on Sharia (religious law) which has seen women effectively silenced in Afghanistan’s legal system.

Nazdana’s divorce is one of tens of thousands of court rulings revoked since the Taliban took control of the country three years ago this month.

    • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      56 minutes ago

      I mean, the last GOP president literally handed the country back to the Taliban - so less of a dream, and more of a conservative “success” story.

  • eacapesamsara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Guess we shouldn’t have bombed a random country to the point where they’d rather have the Taliban than anything approaching western values since they associate all western values with indiscriminate slaughter

    • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 minutes ago

      The impression I’ve always gotten (and I’m sure no political guru or social scientist or anything of the sort) isn’t so much that the country overall prefers the Taliban as much as most of them just don’t really give a rat’s ass about the country as a whole or who’s claiming to be in charge of it at any given time, they don’t have a strong sense of national identity, they care for more about their tribe or village than anything going on outside of it. American, Russian, Taliban, doesn’t really matter too much to them, when the guys with better guns roll into town, you pay them lip service until they go away then continue right on doing things more or less the same way you have for the last 2000 years.

      It does happen that the Taliban probably aligns with their traditional values more closely than the other people who have tried ruling it as a unified country over the years, but day-to-day, they’re still probably mostly only going to the Taliban when they need something from them and deferring to village elders or local warlords or whoever for everything else.

      There’s variation I’m sure, those in cities probably have a stronger sense of what a country is and what it has to offer in the modern world than those in rural areas, but it’s a largely rural country, almost 75% of them are living in rural areas and some of them are super rural where some of them have probably never even seen a city.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I think you’re confusing America bombing Afghanistan into the ground with the Soviet Union bombing Afghanistan into the ground. Since the Soviets invaded, and the US propped up the proto-Taliban in response, Afghanistan’s government has been fundamentally broken. The US bears a lot of responsibility for that but the invasion of Afghanistan arguably made things better for a brief window.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I don’t think the two are related. I’m pretty sure that the root of the current Islamic rule is from the US funding the mujahideen against the Soviet Union back in the 70s.

      Afghanistan isn’t really a cohesive country in the first place. There have been a lot of warring factions in the past few hundred years, both foreign and domestic, and none of them have brought all the people under one flag.

      It’s not that they’d rather have the Taliban, it’s that they want to be left alone and they don’t care who’s in Kabul.