Just a reminder that this bullshit is EXACTLY what the Taliban did the last time they were in power, in the mid to late 1990s. Same creeping dystopian encroachment.
From outside, their internal politics is opaque—but I suspect there's a dynamic in play that promotes reactionary ideological purity (the same dynamic as in the UK Conservative party, or the US Republicans, or the Iranian clergy).
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