If an Afghanistan legislative committee gets its way, US Marines will probably be the only ones playing video games in Afghanistan. Why, you ask? Because the very same committee has drafted a bill that seeks to impose strict codes of morality on its citizens. That includes banning a lot of things that Afghan people consider to be entertainment - even video games.
The draft still needs to have two things before it can become a law: the approval of both chambers of parliament and the signature of President Hamid Karzai. The draft of the bill reportedly outlaws the following:
- women wearing make-up in public
- women dancers performing during concerts, events, or on TV
- young boys wearing female fashions (bracelets, necklaces, hair-bands and "feminist dresses")
- Indian soap opera dramas on private television networks
- video games
- dog and bird-fighting
- pigeon-flying
- billiards
- loud music during wedding parties (as well as both sexes congregating during such parties)
