All of this is presented by the all-male Taliban leadership as in accordance with God’s will. On their first day back in power in Kabul, the Taliban orchestrated a march of fully veiled women who filled an auditorium at a local university. A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul. The Taliban had banned women from education, most jobs and public spaces like parks since seizing control of Afghanistan in 2021. Misogyny takes less extreme forms in other religions, but Catholicism, as well as Judaism and Islam, excludes women from positions of authority, power and effective decision-making.

Source: Irish Examiner March 30, 2026 00:00 UTC