Videogames may get banned in Afghanistan

I don’t expect many of you to care too much about this, but this is just infuriating to me. In case you don’t know, I’m of Afghan descent but never have actually stepped foot on Afghani soil. The war of the late 80’s found my family fleeing to safer places. After 9/11, the country finally started to fix itself up thanks to U.S. backed aid.
Everything for the most part was looking fine but this recent bill submission has me extremely worried. This bill looks to mimic the iron fist control towards freedom the former "government" that was in control had by taking away people’s basic rights. The bill still needs to be approved by both chambers of the Islamist parliament and President Hamid Karzai, but I have a bad feeling this may actually get passed. The bill looks to take away freedoms that were given back to women (such […]

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