Anyone who is still wondering whether two decades of fighting the obscurantism of the Taliban and the terror of al-Qaida in Afghanistan was really worth it shouldn't rub their eyes in surprise: the Taliban are back, they haven't changed anything , and gradually they reintroduce restrictions that violate basic rights and freedoms.

Most recently they closed secondary schools for girls, now they are asking women to stay at home and then, as in the years of their first rule, to wear the burqa again if they have a compelling reason to leave the house.

Treated as underage minors

It sounds like a mockery when the justification is that otherwise they would "provoke" men who were not part of their family.

The incapacitation of women goes even further.

Because if the new decree is violated, it is not the women concerned who will be punished, but their male guardians.

Women are treated like underage minors.

An outcry should go through the Islamic world

Showing how the Taliban are changing Afghanistan is that the decree came from the Ministry of Morality Police, which was previously the Ministry of Women's Affairs.

An outcry would now also have to go through the Islamic world in order for the Taliban to understand that what is happening in Afghanistan is not with Islam.