“Seeing women working in kitchens or courtyards, or collecting water from wells, can provoke obscene acts”, not to mention thoughts. According to Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid (who speaks on behalf of supreme leader Akhundzada) the sight of a large bundle of black rags religiously silently cooking for the family or dragging amphorae full of water, is likely to trigger unspeakable disturbances in the soul (and adjacent areas) of the noble warriors of the faith who govern Afghanistan Afghanistan, and in the sensitive young sprouts that make up the militias and public administration of the ruling terrorists. So, after having prevented girls and young women from going to school, from walking in parks, from going to the gym or the hairdresser, from working outside the home and going out without a man to accompany them, from going to the doctor, to speak to any man, even to buy potatoes, to act, to sing or even to talk to each other if they can be heard by the aforementioned hypersensitive male ears, the Taliban have reached the final farce: women, even if hidden under the unworthy mountain of rags they are forced to wear, cannot be seen even inside their own homes. Ergo: new buildings must be constructed respecting the new rules, that is, with no windows in any place where a woman could be seen by passers-by. According to the decree, windows must not face or look into areas such as courtyards or kitchens. If a window faces such a space, as in all existing houses in Afghanistan, the person responsible for the property must find a way to obscure this view and “remove the damage” by installing a wall, fence or screen “to avoid annoyance to neighbors”: the annoyance, that is, of catching even for a moment the obscured and silent vision of a female human being. Whose value, it is worth remembering, for many ideologues is equal to or one step lower than that of any head of cattle. In the same days, the ineffable warriors who are probably terrified to death by their mother and therefore try to erase her, have sent an ultimatum to all international organizations still working in Afghanistan and still employing women: either they send them home immediately, or “In case of non-cooperation, all activities of that institution will be canceled and the license to operate granted by the ministry will be revoked.” Not only that: international organizations are not even authorized in official documents to use the word 'woman'. Apparently, the word itself is enough to cause the unspeakable disturbances mentioned above to the officials in charge of reading the reports: officials, soldiers or rulers who, incidentally, have no problem playing soccer with the heads of their enemies and other such amusements, but tremble at the mere mention of the word 'woman'. Just as they have no problem, as explicitly reiterated by the government last March, stoning adulteresses to death in public. Where by 'adulteress' is meant in most cases a raped woman who has been so imprudent as to report her rapist: if the rape is not witnessed by four male and Muslim witnesses (who are generally the rapists) the woman who reports it is tried for adultery. The wonders of justice according to the Taliban. But at the time of the unfortunate Doha agreement, they had never made any secret of their intentions: to ensure the rights of women and all Afghan citizens 'according to Sharia law'. And everyone, even those who knew and clearly remembered Afghanistan before September 11, pretended nothing had happened and applauded the sociable and friendly 'Taliban 2.0'. A chorus of nefarious cheerleaders led by the current president of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, clamored to give peace a chance and, above all, to give a chance to that handful of psychopathic and misogynistic terrorists. The results are there for all to see. If women are the other half of the sky, as Mao Tse-Tung claimed, the sky of Afghanistan is half obscured. A black hole that has swallowed up women and girls, together with any semblance of dignity of the West and international institutions. Those same institutions that feebly denounce violations of any civil, human and moral laws to the detriment of women, but who continue to admit the Taliban, on their terms, in any international forum and to do business with them with various farcical justifications: peace must be made with our enemies, we must use dialogue to avoid creating the next generation of terrorists, we must respect their culture. The same justifications used in their time by the ineffable British Prime Minister Chamberlain in relation to Hitler: we all know how it ended. And we all know how it will end, as it has already ended in Kabul and the surrounding areas, but we don't care. Nobody marches in solidarity for the Afghan women: not the West, not their men. The reports published become waste paper the very day they are published, the outrage is born and dies in the space of a morning. What remains, for Afghan women, is only silence. The silence of their homes turned into tombs. In which life resembles death more and more every day.