Taliban To Impose Media Ban On Images Of Living Things
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Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged on October 14 to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced.
  • Zement@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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

    • Randomgal@lemmy.caEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Sad that we live in a world where I couldn’t tell what country you were talking about just by reading your comment.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
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      24 hours ago

      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.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          20 hours ago

          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.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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…

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I really, really wish the linked article explained more. What are they playing at? This is such a confusing level of control.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.”

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Make sure that mountain is free of any trees before taking that scenic picture.

    This essentially bans all photography - it’s fucking weird.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    No music, no images… two things that have defined Human culture for millennia. The Taliban must really love leading a miserable existence.