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'The Taliban look like 1970s hippies': Social media users ridicule the terrorists as they crack down on western dress in Kabul...

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...- but hang on to their sunglasses, high-top trainers and own-branded
merchandise

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9904397/Kabuls-style-conscious-replaced-shalwar-kameez-Taliban-hold-designer-items.html

*Young Taliban fighters have abandoned the austere look of their predecessors in
favour of trendier outfits complete with sunglasses, trainers and baseball caps

*It is worlds apart from the unkempt, hirsute and severe Taliban of 20 years ago
  
*Social media users mocked the 'avant-garde catwalk' outfits on Twitter 

*Comes as the fighters crack down on western influence in Afghanistan

Young Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have abandoned the austere look of their
predecessors in favour of trendier clothes complete with sunglasses, stylish
trainers and baseball caps branded with the Taliban flag.

During the Taliban's first stint in power - from 1996 until 2001 - their
fighters were known for their hirsute and severe appearance, with the
traditional dress worn with a full beard.

But today's fighters - who have been ironically dubbed 'Taliban 2.0' for their
media charm offensive and empty claims of taking a more progressive view of
women - have adopted a far more modern, westernised way of dress, even as they
crack down on western influence in the country.

Photographs taken in Kabul in recent days show Taliban fighters wearing aviator
sunglasses, baseball caps and merchandise adorned with the Taliban flag. Some
are even clean-shaven, abandoning the beard that is required under strict
Islamic law.

They brazenly pose at check-points, on street corners and maraud down the middle
of the road in intimidating groups as they continue to cement their power in the
capital of Kabul.

It has led social media users to mock the fighters as 'avant-garde' fashion
victims working with 'designers' to create their looks.

One commented: 'Looks like the Taliban have also hired a fashion designer to
dress them. They're showing all signs of super villains. As everyone has failed,
there's only one man left to do the job @AustinPowers.'

Another added: 'Is this a Talib or someone who escaped from a Paris avant-garde
catwalk?' One added: 'Really loving the latest Taliban fashion trends.'

The comments have been seen as a form of protest from people around the world
who want to undermine the terror group as they continue their crackdown on
Afghanistan.

In photographs taken in the capital in recent days, fighters can be seen wearing
traditional shalwar kameez in bright and colourful fabrics.

Many have paired the garment with trendy trainers while others have worn
baseball caps and scarves adorned with the Taliban flag instead of a traditional
turban.

In one photograph shared on Twitter, a fighter can be seen wearing aviator
sunglasses, with a bandana tied around his head,  and wearing a full length
orange robe.

The shift is particularly striking in a city known for its embrace of fashion
and a western-style of dress.

Just days ago, a journalist Clarissa Ward gave her report with her hair and neck
uncovered, but on Monday, she wore a black shawl wrapped tightly around her head
as per the Islamists' demands.

Ward was surrounded by fighters after the Afghan capital fell to the terrorists
who the U.S. and Nato fought for two decades after the 9/11 attacks.

Her change in style comes after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year
war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's
feared hardline brand of Islamist rule.

It comes as the 'moderate' Taliban started tarring alleged thieves and strapping
them to trucks to be paraded through Kabul, fired at crowds trying to escape to
the US-controlled airport and going house-to-house to round up looters.

The so-called 'Angels of Salvation' are dragging suspected robbers from their
homes and lining the up against the walls with guns trained at them after
looting broke out across Kabul after the Taliban toppled the government.

Footage shows an alleged car thief with his face covered in black tar and
strapped up to the back of a truck, with his hands tied behind his back as
people gather around to gawp.

A traffic cop stands nearby and waves through traffic, seemingly unperturbed or
unable to prevent the rough justice as commotion builds around the accused man.

Other footage shows Taliban fighters outside Kabul airport wielding AK-47s and
rocket launchers, marching towards the terrified crowds and firing warning shots
into the air.

Their brutal repression has been recounted by a 21-year-old woman who was
working as a teacher in Kandahar before it fell. She described how she had fled
to Kabul but now lived in fear that the Taliban will soon come knocking on her
door.

She told Radio 4: 'When the Taliban attacked and captured Kandahar we were
unable to live anymore, because of the shooting, the bombing and the killing of
innocent civilians.

Meanwhile Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman, claimed on Tuesday 'there is a huge
difference between us and the Taliban of 20 years ago' - when female Afghans
were beaten in the street or publicly executed, denied work, healthcare and an
education, and barred from leaving home without a male chaperone.

But despite his claims video emerged today showing terrified women at the gates
to Kabul airport pleading with US troops to let them through, wailing: 'The
Taliban are coming.'

The women were seen reaching their hands through iron railings towards the
soldiers while screaming in the video which was shared widely on Afghan social
media accounts this morning.




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'The Taliban look like 1970s hippies': Social media users ridicule the terrorists as they crack down on western dress in Kabul... Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> - 2021-08-18 08:42 -0700
  Re: 'The Taliban look like 1970s hippies': Social media users ridicule the terrorists as they crack down on western dress in Kabul... "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2021-08-18 12:44 -0500
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      Re: 'The Taliban look like 1970s hippies': Social media users ridicule the terrorists as they crack down on western dress in Kabul... "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2021-08-19 11:32 -0500
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