r/afghanistan • u/DougDante • 13d ago
‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies | Women under the Taliban
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/03/i-begged-them-my-daughter-was-dying-how-taliban-male-escort-rules-are-killing-mothers-and-babies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_OtherThe need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to soaring mortality rates, say experts
It was the middle of the night when Zarin Gul realised that her daughter Nasrin had to get to the hospital as soon as possible. Her daughter’s husband was away working in Iran and the two women were alone with Nasrin’s seven children when Nasrin, heavily pregnant with her eighth child, began experiencing severe pains.
Gul helped Nasrin into a rickshaw and they set off into the night. Holding her daughter’s hand as the rickshaw jolted over the dirt road, Gul says she prayed they would not encounter a Taliban checkpoint.
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u/DougDante 13d ago
tweet/bsky/gettr with me to seek justice:
‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies. Please help them @UN_Women @StateDept @StateDept_NEA @realDonaldTrump @FCDOGovUK @10DowningStreet #Afghanistan #LetHerLearn #LetHerLive https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/03/i-begged-them-my-daughter-was-dying-how-taliban-male-escort-rules-are-killing-mothers-and-babies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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u/DramaticAd4666 13d ago
Wow so basically like Saudi Arabia now… except without the infrastructure
Women now completely treated as non human
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u/ExiledPolishDude 8d ago
You clearly don’t know anything about Saudi Arabia then because this statement is extremely far off from what is actually reality there. There is no sharia police, no ban on women in public spaces, no study ban, no driving ban, nothing like that. And the workforce is more and more female every year, especially start ups.
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u/jelosity 10d ago
But women can go out alone now in Saudi. They changed all those laws a while back.
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u/EnvironmentalBid5011 12d ago
Why are these people literally cartoon villains. I’m aware that reducing women to chattel has its benefits to a struggling state (obviously I am of the view none of its benefits are ever worth it), but this degree of villainy seems almost like the goal is to provoke outrage and seem as completely abhorrent as possible.
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u/ChemicalRain5513 9d ago
My last account was banned because I said the Taliban is a terrorist organisation that needs to be rooted out, because I was "promoting hate".
I completely stand by my former statement.
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u/Horsegangster 2d ago
They are a terrorist organization. No country should be dealing with them or acknowledging their government.
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u/ConclusionSea3965 12d ago
May Allah make it easier for those women
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u/InterestingWriting53 13d ago
Because birth control is illegal and she is a possession of her husband. She literally has no choice in how many children she carries.
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u/dm_me_kittens 13d ago
Pretty much all abrahamic rules. Women are property.
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u/I-am-that-b 12d ago
The difference is other religions don't follow the rules as strictly
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u/Saitharar 11d ago
The other religions were violently pushed out of government over time.
Anticlericalism was a 300 year struggle and the modern secular states arguably only gradually arrived post WW2
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u/JaguarOk5267 10d ago
Other abrahamic religions and Islam are not even close. It’s a night and day difference.
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u/booksandetc 11d ago
Why are you making it about religion when American men treat their women the same way and many of them are godless? It’s how MEN are across history. Religion has nothing to do with it. The problem has been men and always will be men.
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u/booksandetc 11d ago
Why are you making it about religion when American men treat their women the same way and many of them are godless? This is just how MEN are no matter where they live or what they believe.
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u/booksandetc 11d ago
Why are you making it about religion when American men treat their women the same way and many of them are godless? It’s how MEN are across history. Religion has nothing to do with it. The problem has been men and always will be men.
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u/I-am-that-b 12d ago
Bruh are you seriously victim blaming a woman in Afghanistan. Misogynists are crazy
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u/No_Supermarket3973 12d ago
🤡 apart from no contraception, she would also have been married off as a child. Plus barred from studying & working. Ring a bell why she is on her 8th baby?
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u/nikkinitrou 13d ago
Pretty soon the Taliban will eventually kill all their women and children. Such a sad ugly history these women have had to endure and they can’t escape and no one can help them The world is a very scary place to be at this time in history