Word: forbidden
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...took over in 1992, life began to change. Women still could attend university, especially to study in the medical and educational fields, but many started wearing head scarves to appease the mullahs. When the Taliban came to power in 1996, its fanatical clerics erased all remaining rights: women are forbidden to leave the house without a male chaperone, windows are painted so that females inside can't tempt passersby and women are stoned to death for adultery...
...there be no doubt: Fighting is absolutely forbidden when the conditions mentioned above do not exist. And if at any point, the tyrant stops his oppressive ways or the cause of self-defense is removed, then fighting must stop immediately...
What nobody mentions is that the military enforces all kinds of behavioral controls that are at odds with the civil liberties civilians enjoy. Enlisted soldiers and officers alike aren’t allowed to comment on political candidates or parties. Sex between personnel of different ranks is forbidden. Adultery is a crime worthy of court martial. And some restrictions even target groups protected by Harvard’s anti-discrimination policy: women, for example, are barred from certain combat units, while foreign citizens and people with some physical disabilities can’t enlist...
...stumbling economy. But China could sail through the war on terrorism?if it's quick and clean. Property is still booming in Beijing, and Shanghai's once-stagnant real estate market is enjoying a revival. At the ritzy Oriental Plaza shopping mall, a few blocks from the Forbidden City, merchants claimed no drop in business after the attacks. "Why should what happened in the U.S. affect what I buy today?" asks Liao Xun, a Beijing hairstylist checking out Tommy Hilfiger togs. "It could actually be good news because clothes from America will be cheaper...
...fighting and ask questions about them," he says. All of us are likely to crave escape in the months ahead. But we should be afraid to live in a country where entertainment that deals with people's fears is untouchable, where satire is impossible. A country where it is forbidden to mock the President by popular consensus is no freer than a country where it is forbidden to mock the President...