https://www.marketwatch.com/story/taliban-says-strict-punishment-and-executions-will-return-to-afghanistan-01632413451KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when the group last ruled Afghanistan said the hardline movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.
Why not in public? Not only must justice be done, justice must be seen to be done. The Taliban are getting soft!
Even as Kabul residents express fear over their new Taliban rulers, some acknowledge grudgingly that the capital has become safer in just the past month. Before the Taliban takeover, bands of thieves roamed the streets, and relentless crime had driven most people off the streets after dark.
“It’s not a good thing to see these people being shamed in public, but it stops the criminals because, when people see it, they think, ‘I don’t want that to be me,’ ” said Amaan, a storeowner in the center of Kabul. He asked to be identified by just one name.
Another shopkeeper said that such punishments represented a violation of human rights but that he was happy he could now open his store after dark.
"Human rights" are a Western notion. The sooner we discard it the better:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/antropocentricism-the-most-dangerous-ideology-in-the-world/
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