I remember seeing a passage in an online article, to the effect that today’s netizens always like to compare this country or that country. These rhetoric are actually meaningless. The best way is to vote with your feet, and countries will make an appointment. At the same time, the borders are opened, and people can come and go freely and settle at will. This was the case in Afghanistan some time ago. As soon as the Taliban came to power, the people frantically wanted to flee with the US military, regardless of whether the US was still in a dire mode of increasing 100,000 new crown cases.
The Taliban claimed in an interview that when they returned to power, they would respect the rights of Afghan women, but in accordance with Sharia Law. What are the norms of Islamic law? It's very complicated. It depends on how you interpret the verses about women in the Koran. Interpretation and interpretation lead to various religious rules. So what is Sharia law with Afghan characteristics? In the movie, the historical story told by the teacher's father to the little girl mentions:
We have determined specific dignity for women.
Women should not go outside and attract unnecessary attention.
If a woman shows herself, she will be cursed by the Islamic Sharia and should never expect to go to heaven.
That is to say, the dignity of women is conditional, and their appearance must be the exclusive property of a certain man, and it is a private property that cannot be exposed in broad daylight. The basic operating rules are: if a woman wants to go out, she must first be accompanied by a man, secondly, she must wear a mask, and thirdly, she must not speak to a stranger. Therefore, the so-called "women's rights under Islamic law" is actually equivalent to the rights of black people under the apartheid system, and the essence is to treat people as slaves. On the same day the Taliban pledged to respect women, they shot and killed a woman who was not wearing a face mask.
It has always been known that Muslim women wear hijab face masks, but I did not expect that there are many styles of face masks, some only need to cover the hair, some cover the face, and some cover from head to toe without even showing the eyes. Afghanistan uses the strictest and most conservative kind, the proper name is Burka.
It is said that the Taliban also has a "Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" (Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice), which specializes in dealing with outlaws who do not conform to Islamic core values. But to be honest, there is no need for any public power at all. There are spontaneous and conscious moral militias lurking on the streets of Kabul. At the beginning of the film, a vendor on the street is scolded and ruthlessly asked why he sells things to women.
After the father was arrested, the mother put on a mask and took her daughter to the prison to find her husband. On the way, she was stopped by a strange man and asked why she was not accompanied by her husband when she went out. She argued that the husband was in prison, but the man still refused. Stopped and ordered her to go home, and more arguments only brought a beating. When you go out, you must be accompanied by a husband. If you don't go out, you can't find a husband who can accompany you when you go out. This is how people are driven to a dead end by such bizarre logic.
What is even more shocking in the film is the belief and fanaticism of young people towards this ideology. My father's former "good student", after joining the Taliban, believed that the knowledge taught by his teachers was worthless, and he was determined to fight for Islam. How to fight for Islam? He is looking for Islam's "enemies" anytime, anywhere, including a woman who shows herself, an unmarried 11-year-old girl, a teacher who hides banned books, and a father who teaches his daughter to read and write. As soon as they found the enemy's trace, they immediately showed a fierce look, and rushed forward with their claws and claws, vowing not to give up until they were wiped out. In the face of sick and disabled women and children, they can wield whips, swing guns, and are arrogant and fierce like wolves, but when they hear that the real war is coming, they are confused and cower, like sheep who are scared stupid.
Compared with these "Islamic teenagers", middle-aged and elderly men in Afghanistan seem to have some bottom lines of conscience, represented by the little girl's father and the big man who asked the little girl to read the letter. Even the comrades of the Taliban once persuaded the teenager to "let go of these poor children". There have been bad people in the country, and each has been defeated for decades. But it seems that there are always bad guys of some eras who are more thoroughly bad. The stronger their ideals and beliefs, the more unbridled they can be. No matter what religion, sect, or doctrine you believe in, as long as you go to extremes, it is a disease. The new coronavirus may block people for a while, but Islamic extremist patients can block women for a lifetime, because there is no vaccine to break their brains.
Some people may say that the novel was written by a Canadian, and the movie was made by an Irishman. It is completely Afghanistan from a Western perspective, and it is processed second-hand information to justify the US invasion of Afghanistan. Of course, such a motivational theory can never be falsified, but judging from the response to the film after it was released in Afghanistan in 2018, many viewers saw their childhood in it, because the various social and cultural details presented in the film are extremely realistic .
If you are not satisfied, you can watch the live-action film "Osama" made by the Afghans, all starring amateur actors. Search Osama 2003 on Youtube and you can see the version with English subtitles. It is also a woman disguised as a man to go out to support the family on behalf of her father and brother. "Osama" is more realistic and cruel. You can also see protesters scattered by water cannons, bin Laden's Boy Scout training camp, women who were stoned, and executed by shooting. , the ending made me, a father with a daughter, even more horrified. If "The Breadwinner" can still see a little fire at the end of the tunnel, "Osama" is endless darkness and nightmare.
What are those people who are busy defending the darkness thinking?
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