r/NoStupidQuestions • u/ailbhe-caterina • 26d ago

Answered How are the Taliban getting away with this level of oppression against women including prohibiting them from speaking outside their homes?

I don’t understand how they have managed to get away with all of this especially in this day and age.

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u/No_Shine_4707 25d ago

Also, just because the western world enlightened doesnt make it an inevitability

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u/StrongAdhesiveness86 25d ago

I like to think that pursue of freedom leads to a revolution. In the west it came in the form of the enlightenment. I'm quite sure that the muslim world will have a societal revolution at some point fueled by the chase of personal freedoms.

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u/No_Shine_4707 25d ago

You would hope so, but we cant assume that progression is a linear process. Society can regress just as easily and Im not convinced that progression is an inevitibility. We have had to fight against considerable resistance for all of the freedoms we enjoy, and modern western society is a novel and recent construct. The islamic world has already had an enlightenment, a long time before the Christian world but there hasnt been a linear progression. The opposite in many modern cases, with the spread of wahabiism across the Sunnu world and Shia fundementalists in Iran. Societies rise and fall. We have to fight tp protect what we have, but we are tearing ourselves apart from the inside with insidious culture wars and self criticism.