Higher Education Minister Nida Mohammad Nadim explained that the Taliban’s ban on women going to universities “was necessary to prevent the mixing of genders in universities and because he believes some subjects being taught violated the principles of Islam.”
Women are considered inferior to men in Sharia, and the Taliban strictly adheres to Sharia. What is most surprising is that the West has once again entertained the possibility of negotiating with the Taliban. Last February, the Taliban outright rejected any US criticism of it not being “inclusive” enough. What a silly thing for the US to have expected in the first place.
“Taliban’s ban on women in universities necessary to prevent gender mixing: minister,” Associated Press, December 22, 2022:
The minister of higher education in the Taliban government on Thursday defended his decision to ban women from universities — a decree that had triggered a global backlash.
Discussing the matter for the first time in public, Nida Mohammad Nadim said the ban issued earlier this week was necessary to prevent the mixing of genders in universities and because he believes some subjects being taught violated the principles of Islam. He said the ban was in place until further notice.
In an interview with Afghan television, Nadim pushed back against the widespread international condemnation, including from Muslim-majority countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar. Nadim said that foreigners should stop interfering in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.
Earlier on Thursday, the foreign ministers of the G7 group of states urged the Taliban to rescind the ban, warning that “gender persecution may amount to a crime against humanity.” The ministers warned after a virtual meeting that “Taliban policies designed to erase women from public life will have consequences for how our countries engage with the Taliban. The G7 group includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union.
A former provincial governor, police chief and military commander, Nadim was appointed minister in October by the supreme Taliban leader and previously pledged to stamp out secular schooling. Nadim opposes female education, saying it is against Islamic and Afghan values.
Other reasons he gave for the university ban were women’s failure to observe a dress code and the study of certain subjects and courses.
“We told girls to have proper hijab but they didn’t and they wore dresses like they are going to a wedding ceremony,” he said. “Girls were studying agriculture and engineering, but this didn’t match Afghan culture. Girls should learn, but not in areas that go against Islam and Afghan honor.”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I know that consistency ain’t a virtue in islam, but wonder whether Nadim also felt that foreign muslims should not have interfered in Afghanistan when they were backing the Taliban fight not just the Soviets or the Communist regime there, but also the succeeding islamic regimes that followed? Also, the Taliban has openly supported bringing all of the world under islam, so what’s this ‘foreign’ aspect here? Especially when talking about their closest muslim allies Turkey and Qatar?
Walter Sieruk says
In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime have banned women from enrolling in and likewise going to the university to obtain and education. The first reason that Taliban have done this is because of their religion which is full of misogyny. For Islam has in essence, the anti –female vicious spirit. This is something that the apologists for Islam in the West would never be honest enough to admit is true.
The second reason, is linked, to first , which is that the Taliban want the women to under the darkness tyranny and oppression of Sharia. Therefore, they ban them from receiving an education.
As Thomas Jefferson had, so wisely, declared “Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Walter Sieruk says
The Taliban have banned women form the university because the Islam is a religion of oppressive misogyny and their regime in Afghanistan is based on Islam with its Sharia.
As revealed by a scholar of Islam who revealed in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposed that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Fitna says
Spot on Walter, for both posts.
tim gallagher says
The knuckle draggers, stuck back in 7th century Arabian concepts of human relationships, are certainly in charge in Afghanistan. People should be ashamed to belong to islam which still believes in such primitive and totally inhuman garbage. Unfortunately, I imagine that the knuckle draggers will stay in power for ages in that hopeless country.
GreekEmpress says
They try and fool you by walking upright, don’t they—
tim gallagher says
Well that’s right, GreekEmpress, they do walk upright but the minds of those who follow islam’s primitive ideas of the way human beings should interact, such as males and females, are definitely at the level of knuckle dragging pre-humans.
Scotsman48 says
In Sumatra Indonesia one mullah said that women should not be allowed to ride a Motorbike as their legs are open as they sit and ride and this will cause them to get too excited and may cause future miscarriages.
These guys dont know how to get a woman excited and they sure are sexually messed up in the head.