The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice also defends that women, “if they do not have anything important to do, it is better that they stay at home.”
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Euskaraz irakurri: Aurpegia estaltzeko agindu diete talibanek emakumeei eta burka erabiltzea gomendatu
The Taliban regime has issued a new order with punishments for women who do not cover their faces when they are away from home and has 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 Ahundzadaand has been released this Saturday by the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, responsible for monitoring strict compliance with ‘sharia’ or Islamic law within the regime. “Despite the fact that 99% of Afghan women already wear hijab, the rest should also wear it and there is no excuse for them,” says the document, which also specifies that hijab refers to all those garments that cover the entire body, and that in this case “the burqa is the best version of it”.
A ministerial spokesman explained at a press conference that women must cover their faces in public, since otherwise their male ‘guardians’ will be reprimanded or summoned by the authorities and they even risk ending up in prison, according to the Jaama agency.
The Taliban argue that in this way “they avoid provocations” in the fortuitous encounters of women with men who are not their ‘guardians’, a figure that is usually assumed by the husband or direct male relatives.
the new order does not oblige to the use of a certain garment, but yes recommend specifically the burqa. In any case, the general premise is that “if women do not have anything important to do, they better stay home”.
Although the fundamentalists promised respect the rights of Afghan women In order 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, unable to study or work.
behind many of these regulations against women there is the all-powerful Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, an institution that came into being during the first Taliban regime and died out with the US invasion, for the next 20 years. With the return to power of the Taliban on August 15, the institution returned, settling in the now defunct Ministry of Women.
Source: Eitb
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