Photo: AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai
Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a Taliban-run institute training tourism and hospitality professionals.
The students vary in age, education level and professional experience. They’re all men — Afghan women are banned from studying beyond sixth grade — and they don’t know anything about tourism or hospitality. But they are all eager to promote a different side of Afghanistan. And the Taliban are happy to help.
Despite the challenges, Saeed wants Afghanistan to become a tourism powerhouse, an ambition that appears to be backed by the Taliban’s top leaders. […] “I have been sent to this department on the instructions of the elders (ministers). They must trust me because they’ve sent me to this important place.”
An unofficial subject is how to interact with foreign women and how their behavior or habits could clash with local customs and edicts. Examples might be women smoking or eating in public, to mixing freely with men who are not related to them by blood or marriage. […] The Taliban have imposed a dress code for women and requirements for them to have a male guardian, or mahram, when they travel. Dining alone, traveling alone, and socializing with other women in public have become harder. With gyms closed to women and beauty salons banned, there are fewer places where they can meet outside the home.
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Cosmic level irony right here. Killed, terrorized and deposed in the name of power just to end up having to play the same game with the same rules.
Fuck it let’s take it to the next level. This says way more about the balance of power on a world scale than the failures of these morons. This planet runs on economic subjugation, from every single individual and to any group that becomes powerful enough to upset the status quo, you will grease the wheel or you have no better use than to be fed into the meat grinder.
Every day I inch closer to nihilism, today feels like a giant leap forward.
A great example that we ALL follow the one true religion …
Money! … All hail the Almighty infinite dollar! (or whatever local currency you have)
I mean, look at all the stories of Taliban fighters who feel depressed because after they “won” their revolution, they had to put their guns down and go get real jobs. And the irony is that the jobs they are working are the same ones they would have had under the old regime.
You sound fun.
Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don’t get caught!
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Like a jar full of hornets. Best enjoyed from a distance.
Who the fuck would want to go to Afghanistan for any reason? Them boys been hitting the poppy juice a bit too much.
I mean other then the terrorism the landscape is beautiful
I’d like to go, it’s a beautiful country.
Definitely, but there are a lot of other beautiful countries that you can go to where you won’t support a murderous regime.
Now is that really that hard of a choice to make?
The Kabul Burau of Tourism welcomes you.
Come see our empty museum because we blew up all the non-Islamic artifacts! Participate in a stoning! Wish death to America! Enslave women and force them into Burqas! Enjoy our dancing underage sex boys! Maybe try out a little Jihad! The possibilities are endless!
I mean, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m going to keep my not-obviously-cishet-male ass home, thanks. For some reason I just can’t bring myself to trust their government.
For some reason I just can’t bring myself to trust their government.
Now, whyevuh would you say that?
Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don’t get caught!
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Customer: Do you have any obscure travel packages?
Travel Agent: Well there’s this new Assisted SuicideTM experience
Wasn’t there some influencer who went to Afghanistan, saying he’d be safer there than in the West, and they killed him? Maybe they shouldn’t have done that …
Just like those student Christians who take the Bible to China or North Korea, thinking it’ll be fun and fine. Not once has it been either of those things.
They have a persecution complex from a handful of verses that say they will be blessed and rewarded in heaven the more they stoicly accept persecution and suffering while alive. Just a way to control the poor by telling them, “no, no, no, you’re ACTUALLY rich for eternity - just wait for it.”
One must be truly fucking retarded to consider Afghanistan as a travel destination.
As people nowadays lack common fucking sense the Taliban might be successful with their undertaking.
It scares me that young unexperienced people can be directly influenced through social media to fucking believe Afghanistan is a nice place to visit. Even more scary is the fact that there is a high chance that travel advertisments target young western women because they are the main target audience for the “travel lifestyle”.
Absolutely horrible.
There was a woman who hitch hiked through the middle east to show it’s safe (ended predictably) so may be that could be their angle. Prove to every one that you don’t believe the propaganda that the Taliban is bad.
Taliban learning you need money to run a country nowadays.
TERRORIST IN SNEAKERS TAKING SELFIE - gotta love a good alt text
They should organize Pride Kabul in June and attract all the gay tourists too ☺️
Remember kids, if you kill enough people, and strike terror into the hearts of the people for long enough, you can become a sovereign government, just like the Taliban.
Doom tourism is a thing, so I think they will get they’re tourist.
“they’re”
Seriously? You’ve even edited the comment yet somehow didn’t fix that.
