It is forbidden to cut the beard, the last grip of the Taliban

"You are urgently informed that shaving beards and playing music in shaving salons and public toilets are strictly prohibited from today." Anyone who is "caught shaving someone's beard or playing music will be punished according to the principles of Sharia law and will have no right to complain." The latest return of the Taliban to the more obscurant past in Afghanistan comes from a notice displayed in the salons of the southern province of Helmand: as it happened until twenty years ago, during the first Islamic Emirate, men will no longer be able to shave. After the return to hangings and corporal punishment, and while women remain relegated to the margins of society and excluded from politics and schools, the close confirms thethe intention of the mullahs to impose their intransigent interpretation of Islamic law on the population by any means, denying the repeated promises of moderation. Measures that, announce the masters of Kabul, will be enforced by the religious police, in charge of carrying out the measures of the reborn ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which has taken the place of the one dedicated to Women's Affairs.