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.
      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        142·
        2 months ago

        But they still have TV, right? They did the last time the Taliban was in charge. I remember a news segment about it way back when the war started. The programming was mostly a bunch of religious stuff and their idea of news. So I guess no more news? Or no more TV? Or just text…

        • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          I suspect some of them might still have cell phones with internet. I wonder if they’ll also force people to use text images as avatars on twitter or something

        • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          The russian way is to set up extremely restrictive laws covering everyone as guilty, so a governing body can use them to charge everyone they want. I guess, talibs learnt some of that wisdom visiting Kremlin while being a designated terrorist organization here, kek - and this status would get lifted in coming months.

  • Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.org
    7·
    2 months ago

    Give them enough time, they’re going to bar eating and basic survival instincts. Whatever those are to them.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    7·
    2 months 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.

  • Media Bias Fact Checker@lemmy.worldBEnglish
    212·
    2 months ago
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    • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      So what the bot considers least biased is a literal US state controlled media explicitly stated for propaganda purposes.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    26·
    2 months 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
      24·
      2 months 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
          41·
          2 months 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.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    what can you expect from an undead demonic army prepping for the holy battle of megiddo?

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caEnglish
    361·
    2 months ago

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

      • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        2 months ago

        Okay but what about the image cast on our retinas through our eyeballs that we use to see?

        Those are imperfect imitations of reality also. What’s their stance on those images…

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        But apparently written religious works or talking about god’s work is perfect, or that would be banned too.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Why only images of sentient beings though? Did God not create the rest of it too?

      • freeman@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I knew someone who believed that it sucks the soul out of you if you get photographed…

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      172·
      2 months 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
        52·
        2 months 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.

          • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
            31·
            2 months ago

            Ramadan does not have rules about what to eat. The rules are when to eat and quie straightforward. During Ramadan you fast from Dawn till sunset, unless fasting poses a risk to your health (sick, children, elderly, pregnant…)

            • WldFyre@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              2 months ago

              Oh well that makes complete sense and isn’t about control at all!

              /s

              • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
                21·
                2 months ago

                As someone who has fasted for Ramadan the first time this year i can assure you, that nobody was controlling me except myself. While i also felt it to help me physically, it helped me a lot mentally.

                I learned to appreciate the abundance of food and water we have and to have more compassion for people lacking it.

                I also learned to have more control over my body and differentiate between actual needs and mere wants.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        2 months 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.

        When religion got ahold of these concepts they were absolutely twisted into controlling people.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      2 months 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.”

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      Islamic fundamental extremism didn’t really find its way into Afghanistan until the 80’s. It was transplanted by the Saudi government who were in part supported by the United States as a way to counter the Soviet invasion.

      If you actually ever get the chance to meet an actual Afghan family, I think you would be surprised of how kind they generally are, hospitality is a cornerstone of their culture.

      I think it’s important to realize that the cultural identity of the Taliban to America isn’t actually based off of Afghan culture, it’s based off of the Saudi, and that the Afghan people are the real victims of this .

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        I’ve met a few people from Afghanistan, but I can’t say if they are representative of the country, because they did have to leave.
        But they were very nice people indeed.