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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Now it’s just a bunch of religious fascists trying to one up each other.
Give it enough time and they have implemented so many rules, no rule is relevant any more
Sad that we live in a world where I couldn’t tell what country you were talking about just by reading your comment.
Make sure that mountain is free of any trees before taking that scenic picture.
This essentially bans all photography - it’s fucking weird.
No music, no images… two things that have defined Human culture for millennia. The Taliban must really love leading a miserable existence.
The Republican party is salivating at the thought
No media coverage is good
Well, I know less about music, but iconoclasm is a pretty traditional feature of Islam. That’s why they have all the crazy geometrical art everywhere.
As long as it means they can control others, they are happy.
Well, not happy as such
And the Afghans have had music and art since forever, well after their conversion to Islam. The taliban are freaks.
Just wait for the exceptions for “spiritual leaders” and government officials.
What is just so nuts is how much of an outlier and how incredibly new the bullshit the Taliban is doing, yet there are people who insist that all Muslims are copies of them…
Give them enough time, they’re going to bar eating and basic survival instincts. Whatever those are to them.
I assume that guy on the poster is dead, then?
Zombies & Vampires only.
I bet you’re not allowed to picture dead people either …
I really, really wish the linked article explained more. What are they playing at? This is such a confusing level of control.
According to wikipedia, that isn’t even a problem within the Quran itself, but rather a hadith (oral tradition) from some other fellow: “Sahih Bukhari explicitly prohibits the making of images of living beings, challenging painters to “breathe life” into their images and threatening them with punishment on the Day of Judgment.”
God doesn’t want you to mix fabrics or eat certain foods on certain days. “Confusing level of control” is on brand.
It’s not about making sense though. It’s about making you do what they want so that you know who is in control.
Not mixing fabrics and certain food practices were originally based on lived experience, like safety guidance, before getting coopted by religion. Kosher practices avoid cross contamination, and mixed fabrics could have something to do with temperature regulation in desert areas where it swings between extreme heat and cold daily. Or it could have existed to discourage lying about prodict quality by those who would sneak in poor quality materials.
By the time religion got ahold of these concepts they were absolutely twisted into controlling people.
Sorry, not eating meat on Friday is a “lived experience food safety practice?”
You are mistaking the Catholic practice of Lent (not eating meat on Friday) with the Jewish Kosher practice of not mixing dairy with meat (possible cross contamination?).
Wut? How am I possibly mistaking anything?
These are not rules of Islam though. On the contrary Islam made many rules of Judaism obsolete, taking away complication in religion. Islam also provided a much clearer theology than Christianity and specifically rejects the “trinity”, “holy people” and other concepts contrary to the oneness of god.
What the Taliban and other Salafi/Wahabi people do, is quite fringe and it is infuriating that the Brits and later the Americans helped the Saudis to seize power in Arabia and furthered these extremist interpretations.
All religious practices are ridiculous. Some are just more damaging than others.
taliban’s oppression is not a rabbit hole you want to go down
Are you Taliban and want someone dead, but frustrated with your fundamentalist movement’s pesky adherence to the rule of law? Upset at the heretic you can’t quite get proof of? Overbearing parents trying to arrange another marriage?
With new Taliban Ban on Images of Living Things®, you are back in the driver’s seat. Just take a picture of your target. After it’s done, the authorities will be practically begging you to murder that person to prevent the inevitable consequences, including the collapse of society and the rending of the fabric of space-time.
That’s accurate to historical Islamic practice, unlike a lot of their crazy shit, but nobody else does it because it’s going to be insanely difficult to work with.
Except historically the arts flourished under Islamic rule. While Islam does have an anti icon streaks it was never enforced save for the depiction of the prophet Mohammad.
I think it’s an oversimplification to say that it was never enforced:
Yeah, they were big on arts (and had the civilisation to actually sponsor a lot of it) but with a strong bent towards geometric and abstract art, and calligraphy. Y’know, like mosques are famously covered in.
They also had a thing for water features and gardens, which are the actual articles instead of mere depictions. I’m wondering now if they had much in the way of zoos.
