The Taliban, women, and medicine...?

Question

About the Taliban's restrictions upon Afghanistan women in the 1990s and very early 2000s: there's one law that boggles my mind:

The Taliban forbade women to practice medicine, yet they also forbade women to see a male doctor. Therefore, women didn't get to see doctors at all.

This is dumbfoundingly illogical, even for religious zealots. Did they have no foresight? Did the men want their women to get sick and die? Were nonmedical female healers available to attend the women's ills? Did women know some folk medicine for each other outside of modern medicine?

If no folk female healers were available, did Taliban men want their aging wives to die so they could marry younger women, or their aging mothers to die so the men could spend more money on themselves? Was there an excess female population they wanted to kill off? Was it considered noble and holy for women to die rather than defile themselves with male (or female) doctors?

Please, what's the answer?

I want more comprehensive or thoughtful (that is, thought out) answers than that first one, please--even if you end up with the same conclusion. Thank you.

Answer 1

I think you're trying to impose logical thinking upon a decision that has little. No logical society would want to risk losing its women, especially one intent on developing a theocracy.

Theocracies require populations raised in the faith. The Taliban would want Taliban kids.

Women giving birth with limited medical resources does not help aid an increase in population.

They have midwives and nurses and there are a small number of female physicians trained from before.

I a NOT saying that the Taliban are stupid or lacking in cognitive thought. I am saying that they have some policies which reveal a severe misogynistic bias that hinders the ability to do whats best for the society long term. These are the same people that turned a brand new sports stadium into a beheading ring. They also celebrate by shooting guns into the air and the national sport is a rather gruesome, violent game.

Arabs are not uneducated. Muslims are not uneducated. Afghanis are not uneducated. The Taliban are uneducated. And uneducated doesn't mean stupid.

Look back at what happens after a society wins a long, hard won battle like that of the mujahadeen in Afghanistan. An example I can think of is the Christian Reconquista in Spain. Those men are raised in a world where everyone is against them and martial law is the norm. It's not easy to retrain those synapses to think long term.

The Spanish Christians went off to the New World to destroy thousands or millions. The Taliban mujahadeen are self-imploding.

Answer 2

For a country that fights constantly that results in death and starvation that wants to keep a biblical fashion of Honor to a God and culture is beyond any pointless comprehension.

Who so ever dictated their religion had marbles for brains and they rattle over the country in rage.

Saudi Arabia a very relgious country has more death now than it did before 9/11.

You kill and be killed, but what sense is that for a country that has no value to enforce themselves to a better life, but they do not kill unless you kill and their method works pretty darn good.

Answer 3

it's hard to comprehend that in the year 2007 many nationalities all over the world consider the females in the family as less worth than cattle guns skewed ideaologies and possessions sad but true count your blessings you can ask this question without fear of reprisal

Answer 4

The answer is that these are some of the stupidest, illogical, inconsiderate people the world has ever known.