Afghan music ban?

[french frank]

IMO religion is for the convenience of the rulers, connivance of the wise and control of the masses. Catch is that early education and control can inbed the desired self control such that coercive control is no longer required - hence the attraction of educating young males to accept such nonsense and especially to deny education to females who otherwise might educate their children.

As, temperamentally, an agnostic I would differentiate between 'religion' and how it's exploited, historico-socially by men. But then, I'm not even 90% sure about my own opinions