Afghanistan on the march towards a new Islamist order
Afghan women demonstrate in defense of their rights, September 02, 2021, in Herat, Afghanistan.
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By: Geneviève Delrue
2 min
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The Taliban's seizure of power signifies a stinging setback for the United States and the end of a cycle, that of neoconservatism. And for
Jean-François Colosimo
, specialist in geopolitics of religion, after the British and the Soviets who broke their teeth there, this chaotic departure of the American army confirms the adage according to which "Afghanistan is the cemetery of empires ”. It is also about the return by the large door of tribalism which comes to mingle a rigorous vision of Sunni Islam born in the British Indies in the 19th century: Deobandism.
Has the religious ideology of the Taliban changed or will they still subject women to the same dictates? For
Zeina El Tibi,
president of the Association of Arab Women of the Press and Communication who signs
"The condition of Muslim women / Between text and practice"
(Cerf)
,
it is to be hoped that the Taliban will be forced to govern to relax their position.
On the occasion of the major Jewish holidays of this month of September - Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur -
David Allouche
presents his second novel
"Parler à Mère
"
(Balland
).
It is the story of a Parisian forty-something born into an Orthodox Jewish family who, going through a period of depression, comes to lie down on the couch of a psychoanalyst to talk about his mother.
A tender and suspenseful novel about the couple, fatherhood, family and God.
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