• unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    And may I suggest you do some research before replying?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65787391

    Balancing an AK-47 assault rifle slung around his left shoulder and a large stick in his right hand, Abdul hits the heads of poppies as hard as he can. The stalks fly in the air, as does the sap from the poppy bulb, releasing the distinctive, pungent smell of opium in its most raw form.

    In April 2022, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada decreed that cultivation of the poppy - from which opium, the key ingredient for the drug heroin can be extracted - was strictly prohibited. Anyone violating the ban would have their field destroyed and be penalised according to Sharia law.

    The sticks are used to destroy the fields, not beat people 🤦

    And punishment under Sharia law is much more severe than getting beat by a stick, which isn’t something that obviously will never fly in the US.

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      The sticks are used to destroy the fields, not beat people

      That was my point exactly.

      But invoking the spectre of “Sharia law” is just as vague as referring to “US law”.

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        But invoking the spectre of “Sharia law” is just as vague as referring to “US law”.

        right, because Sharia Law and US Law are exactly the same thing…