The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice also defends that women “if they have nothing important to do, better stay at home”.
The Taliban regime has a new order with punishments for women who do not cover their faces when they are not at home and recommended the use of burqaa symbol of social repression during the previous Taliban regime, between 1996 and 2001.
The order comes directly from the main Taliban leader, Hebatula Ahunzadaand was announced this Saturday by the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, responsible for overseeing strict adherence to ‘Sharia’ or Islamic law within the regime. “Despite the fact that 99% of Afghan women are already wearing hijab, the rest should be wearing it too and there is no excuse for them,” the document says, also specifying that hijab refers to all those garments that cover the entire body. cover, and that in this case “the burqa is the best version of it”.
A ministerial spokesperson explained at a press conference that women must cover their faces in public, otherwise… their male ‘guardians’ will be reprimanded or summoned by the authorities and according to the Jaama agency, they even risk ending up in jail.
The Taliban argue that in this way “they avoid provocations in the chance encounters of women with men who are not their ‘guardians’, a figure usually assumed by the spouse or immediate male relatives.
the new order obligatory not to the use of a particular item of clothing, but yes recommend specifically the burqa. In any case, the general premise is that “if women don’t have anything important to do, they’d better stay at home”.
Although the fundamentalists promised respect the rights of Afghan women To gain international recognition, the reality of women in that country increasingly resembles the time of the first Taliban regime in 1996 and 2001, when they were confined to their homes and unable to study or work.
behind many of these regulations against women there is the almighty Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, an institution that emerged during the first Taliban regime and died with the American invasion, for the next 20 years. With the return of the Taliban to power on August 15, the institution returned and settled in the now-defunct Ministry of Women.
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Source: EITB
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