Taliban government, 1996

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Taliban government
Date
1996
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Taliban government
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“Women should not step outside your residence. If women are going outside with fashionable, ornamental, tight and charming clothes to show themselves, they will be cursed by the Islamic Sharia and should never expect to go to heaven.”Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower (New York: Vintage Books, 2006), 261.

Rhetoric Category
Anti-Women
Pro-Islamism
Threat
Taliban

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