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🇦🇫#Afghanistan: Four men have been detained by The Taliban for dressing up and LARPing as the Peaky Blinders, a UK series about Birmingham gangsters in the 1900s. The Taliban's ‘Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice’ accused them of violating ‘local values’ due to them imitating the characters from the series. In videos posted to TikTok the men are seen strutting around in Herat province, mimmicking their style of Peaky Blinders. It’s reported that they were sent to a rehabilitation centre to correct their ‘pro-western attitude’. The Taliban described their activity as spreading ‘foreign film style acts’ and, hilariously, said the young men had become known locally as the ‘Thomas Shelby group’. (via theafghantimes; 📹 via @IhsanTipu on X)