Afghan hell: Taliban kill for wearing jeans and ban bathing

According to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph , citing a resident of Kabul, who by some miracle still works on social networks, he and his friends were beaten and whipped by militants who noticed jeans and T-shirts on them. The Taliban accused the guys of non-observance of the laws of Islam and were already ready to execute them, but the young people miraculously managed to escape. Fortunately, they knew the location of local streets.

There are a lot of such cases in Kabul and other large cities of Afghanistan. The other day, the Taliban beat an employee of the Etilaatros newspaper to blood, who dared to go out in "American pants".

One of the field commanders of the Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation - editor's note) Said that the new leadership of Afghanistan has not yet made a decision on what should be the dress code for men.

The older generation of Afghans has not yet forgotten how the population was bullied by the Taliban militants when they were in power in the late 1990s. Then women got it, many of whom preferred to wear secular clothes. The Taliban forced girls over eight years old and all women, without exception, to wear Afghan burqas that completely cover their face and body. They were not allowed to study, work and just leave the house.

All of these requirements were enforced by the religious police under the Afghan Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Not only offenders were subject to punishment. Any doctor, tailor, or salesman who provided services to a single woman was liable to prison or flogging. The husband (brother, father, son) of the offender was also punished for allowing her to leave the house alone.

Women and men were banned from visiting hammams and other public baths. The ban was based on the fact that public exposure in all circumstances is highly indecent. Formally, no one forbade hygiene procedures, but in many cities there was no running water or it did not work, so baths were often the only place where you could wash.

Now, the Taliban leaders say: "We respect women and do not want them to become victims of Sharia." But they are not believed.

And rightly so. Do not forget that a few years ago, when the Taliban were underground, from time to time they blew up women's schools in Afghanistan. So it is likely that Afghan cities will have to reshape their lives for the second time in a quarter century and adapt to the tribal customs of the Pashtuns, writes The Daily Telegraph.