“We are going to allow women to work and study. We have got frameworks, of course. Women are going to be very active in the society but within the framework of Islam,” Zabihullah Mujahid, the group’s spokesman, said at a press conference in Kabul on Tuesday.

Mujahid, who had been a shadowy figure for years, said that “there will be no discrimination against women” adding that “they are going to work shoulder to shoulder with us.”

Pressed on how the new Taliban government will differ from the previous one, Mujahid said that the group has evolved and will not take the same actions they did in the past.

“There will be a difference when it comes to the actions we are going to take” compared with 20 years ago, he said.

“We are committed to the media within our cultural frameworks. Private media can continue to be free and independent. They can continue their activities,” he said.

He also said the group has no plans to enter the homes of people or carry out retaliatory attacks on anyone who served in the previous governments, worked with foreigners or were part of the Afghan National Security Forces.

There have been unconfirmed reports of Taliban fighters entering the homes of Kabul residents, but Mujahid said those were impostors who should be turned over to the Taliban and face appropriate punishment

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i have 0 faith in this lol, they just want to make sure there is not any retaliatory action

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Yeah it’s 100% just rhetoric. This is the type of thing everyone says when they’re trying to transition from being a militant group to being a peacetime government. It’s good rhetoric though, I’ll give them that.

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No faith in it, but saying good things is the first step. I, for one, would be completely unsurprised if it turns out the coverage of the Taliban over the past few decades has not exactly been accurate and up to date.

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the coverage of the Taliban over the past few decades has not exactly been accurate and up to date.

What are you talking about they have only been a thing for a few decades, they were in government less than 20 years ago.

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Yeah, that’s what I meant – going back to the 90s is “a few” decades."

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I mean, yeah, but still a change of face from the riders of the apocalypse thing they had going on publicly in the 00’s. I’ve no doubt this is just them figuring out the western methods of exploitation with a likable public face.

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:doubt:

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Ohhhh this is part of negotiated withdrawal to make Biden not look so bad

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this wouldn’t be all that wild tbh

its not very hard to find women who’ll support and participate in anti-feminist conservative government

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but within the framework of islam

within our cultural frameworks

mmhm

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Yeah I heard one of them say on CNN “well we’re gonna let women live the way they want, we will let them go to school, they just have to wear niqab, and go to female only schools” and stuff like that.

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