The Taliban have set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and prevention of vice” in Afghanistan. The rules include dozens of standards for dress code and how women may conduct themselves in public, with severe punishments for violating the rules. Luma Simms joins us to discuss the Catholic and Islamic views of the nature of the human person and the role religion can play in supporting democracy.

Further Reading

On the Taliban and the dehumanizing “regulations” of radical Islam

Democracy without Religion Is Dead

Democracy without Religion Is Dead: Part II

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