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.