The Taliban are dragging women off Herat’s streets in vans. Silence is now a choice the world is making

Mihai Prelipcean

I am a woman from Afghanistan who has spent years being told to temper my words about the Taliban, writes Shabnam Nasimi . But no longer – this is a terrorist regime that kidnaps women off the street and shoots their parents when they call for their return O n Saturday in Herat, one of the world's oldest cities that has always prided itself on poetry and learning, men from Afghanistan’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice fanned out and began taking women .