Taliban ban women's voices & faces sans veils in public

In a stunning development since the United States' chaotic (if not catastrophic) withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban has announced a slew of new laws this week to govern morality, mostly of women--banning any clothing that reveals one's face, locking women in their homes without a male relative and banning them from public spaces like parks, and even making it illegal for women to utter words aloud as a woman's voice is supposed to be "private" and "intimate." Why aren't more people talking about this, and have we become numb to human suffering?

Afghan women are protesting an online Taliban law that bans them from raising their voices in public. The new regulation mandates that women must cover their...