Taliban’s ‘No Skin Contact’ Rule Leaves Afghan Women Trapped, Ignored In Earthquake Rubble

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1. No skin contact should be exception during emergencies and disasters no? If they continue like this they won’t have any women alive! What are they gonna do then? Engage in homosexuality? They will die out from stupidity.

2. I refuse to believe this is true, this is against even the most extreme interpretation of any religion.

3. Gloves should be the simple answer unless I’m missing something

4. Headline says one thing while the article says another.

   Bigoted fear mongering at its finest.

   “”They gathered us in one corner and forgot about us,” said 19-year-old Bibi Aysha, whose village in Kunar province was one of the hardest hit, told The New York Times.”

5. The author of this article confuses being “trapped, ignored in rubble” to left alone after being rescued. I now doubt the entire article because it was purposefully written in bad faith. This isn’t news it’s propaganda.

6. Any time religion causes people to come to harm, it just shows that that aspect of that religion is bad. We’re seeing it here, we’re seeing it in the US, we’re sort of seeing it with Israel (though that one is more complex because it is the government conflating nationalism, ethnicity, and religion).

   There definitely *can* be good things that come from it, but they seem harder and harder to find.

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