First, they banned them from entering the classrooms. On September 18, 2021, just one month after taking Kabul, the Taliban closed secondary schools to girls: nothing more dangerous than a studying brain. Women were forbidden to show their faces, the slightest part of their body; they forbade them to wear makeup, of course, to be flirtatious. Nothing is more dangerous than the strength of femininity, its strengths and its rituals. Gradually, they banned everything. To drive. To travel. Play sports. Access the parks. They forbade them to go to the public baths. Was it the very idea of skin, of flesh, of curves in the condensed heat of the hammam that repelled these men? Or the possibility of women talking among themselves? Besides, to really be sure, the Ministry of Vice and Virtue forbade them to speak at all. It was simpler. Forbidden to make the sound of their voice heard in public. And for several days, talking to each other.
The Taliban crush women and dig their graves. Because nations that mistreat women fail. Not only are these companies depriving themselves of half of everything. Of half the intelligence. Half of love. Half the joy. Half the courage. But they produce many miserable men, filled with emotional and sexual frustrations, which frustrations generate violence and chaos. All this is documented by studies. One of them, in particular, was highlighted by the weekly The Economist a few months ago.
Three American researchers have developed an indicator bringing together several elements such as early marriages of girls, polygamy, unequal treatment of women in the law, and brutality towards them. And by testing this indicator for 176 nations, these researchers established a very strong statistical link between a country’s level of sexism and its violent political instability. You have to see the graph which summarizes this link, it is so edifying.
“Where the woman is free, the man is a balanced person: a country where women go out in the evening is a country where I feel safe,” recently summarized Kamel Daoud, who won the prize this Monday Goncourt for his novel Houris, which features a mother speaking to her unborn daughter in the dark decade of Algeria martyred by Islamism. Yes. Nations that mistreat women fail. Societies that believe they are crushing desire by stifling women are creating disaster. This is why the Afghan Taliban, like the mullahs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will eventually fall. In the meantime, we will have seen all this, we will have seen the freedoms of these women mutilated in the name of vice and virtue. And we will have done so little.
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