One would expect these kinds of things to happen in Afghanistan, but we have to update our priors. Leading figures in the current regime are openly idolatrous about Nazism¹, and for Paleoconservatism² anything will fly. Remember their slogans about "freedom"? They just mock it; but even that isn't original.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_transgender_peo...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism