Taliban Bans All Images of Living Things

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Afghanistan’s Taliban morality ministry pledged on Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced.

It comes after the Taliban regime recently announced legislation formalising its strict interpretations of Islamic law that have been imposed since they swept to power in 2021.

“The law applies to all Afghanistan ... and it will be implemented gradually,” Saiful Islam Khyber, the spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (PVPV), told AFP. He added that officials would work to persuade people that images of living things are against Islamic law.

“Coercion has no place in the implementation of the law,” he said.

“It’s only advice, and convincing people these things are really contrary to sharia (law) and must be avoided.”

The new law detailed several rules for the media, including banning the publication of images of all living things and ordering outlets not to mock or humiliate Islam, or contradict Islamic law.

Aspects of the new law have not yet been strictly enforced, including advice to the public not to take or look at images of living things on phones and other devices.

Taliban officials continue to regularly post photos of people on social media and Afghan journalists have told AFP they received assurances from authorities after the law was announced that they would be able to continue their work.

The information ministry did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.

“Until now, regarding the articles of the law related to media, there are ongoing efforts in many provinces to implement it, but that has not started in all provinces,” Khyber said.

He added that work has started in the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and the neighbouring Helmand province, as well as northern Takhar.

‘Applies to everyone’
Before the recent law was announced, Taliban officials in Kandahar were banned from taking photos and videos of living things, but the rule did not include news media.

“Now it applies to everyone,” Khyber said.

In central Ghazni province on Sunday, PVPV officials summoned local journalists and told them the morality police would start gradually implementing the law.

They advised visual journalists to take photos from further away and film fewer events “to get in the habit”, a journalist who did not want to give his name for fear of reprisal told AFP.

Reporters in Maidan Wardak province were also told the rules would be implemented gradually in a similar meeting.

Television and pictures of living things were banned across the country under the previous Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, but a similar edict has so far not been broadly imposed since their return to power.

Since 2021, however, officials have sporadically forced business owners to follow some censorship rules, such as crossing out the faces of men and women on adverts, covering the heads of shop mannequins with plastic bags, and blurring the eyes of fish pictured on restaurant menus.

When the Taliban authorities seized control of the country after a two-decade-long insurgency against foreign-backed governments, Afghanistan had 8,400 media employees. Only 5,100 remain in the profession, according to media industry sources.

This figure includes 560 women, who have borne the brunt of restrictions which have been described as “gender apartheid” by the United Nations. These include being ordered to wear masks on television.

In Helmand, women’s voices have been banned from television and radio.

Afghanistan has slipped from 122nd place to 178th out of 180 countries in a press freedom ranking compiled by Reporters Without Borders.
 

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Respectfully fukk em'. We spent 2 decades there let somebody else deal with this.
I didn't say US specifically :yeshrug: I agree I think we need a solid 5 or so years not getting involved with any other countries shyt

But we definitely didn't spend that 20 years there with pure intentions in mind so idk if that really counts
 

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I didn't say US specifically :yeshrug: I agree I think we need a solid 5 or so years not getting involved with any other countries shyt

But we definitely didn't spend that 20 years there with pure intentions in mind so idk if that really counts
Our intentions are hardly ever pure you're right about that. But yeah I think we need to focus on us for the next decade before we lose it all.
 

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Shoot, Jesus out of all the other holy books was practical

And Christian heaven is more accessible compared to nirvana, jannah, valhalla all that crap

but joos are part of the problem, they're stuck in the iron age and using cac trauma against us, fags

Muslims are just Jews with numbers but they need to be left alone, fukk israel
 

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I didn't say US specifically :yeshrug: I agree I think we need a solid 5 or so years not getting involved with any other countries shyt

But we definitely didn't spend that 20 years there with pure intentions in mind so idk if that really counts
Who has the power projection to actually go into Afghanistan whose intentions would be pure? Can’t even say another Muslim country, look at how Saudi Arabia is doing Yemen.
 

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It was a massive mistake turning over the country to the corrupt Afghan government. Should of flushed Al-Qaeda out, lit up Taliban leadership and called it a day or take control of the country and modernize the country to combat the Taliban.
the U.S tried to modernize them, spent 2 decades attempting.

but what can you do when you give out free washing machines, teach them how to use them, then come back and they've dismantled them for scraps. or you're trying to teach soldiers strategy but they are high off opium? at that point you just have to let them figure it out themselves.
 
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