It would be illuminating if Muslim clerics who agreed with the Taliban’s policies regarding women held a public debate with Muslim clerics who disagreed with those policies. But that will never happen, likely because Muslim clerics in the West are generally disinclined to draw undue attention to the misogyny of so many core Islamic texts.
“Afghan Taliban Minister For Education: Taliban’s Ban On Girls’ Schooling Consistent With Afghan Culture, Islam, ‘If You Stand In The Uruzgan Bazaar And Ask Elders Of Our Villages, You Will Find It Out Yourself,'” MEMRI, January 11, 2023:
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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) seized power on August 15, 2021, forming an interim government on September 7. In mid-September 2022, the acting Afghan Taliban Minister for Education Sheikh Noorullah Munir drew attention for defending the Taliban government’s ban on girls’ schooling by arguing that Afghan culture and Islam do not permit education for girls and women.
After the formation of the interim Taliban government on September 7, 2022, several countries in the West as well as Pakistan, Iran, China, and Russia entertained the possibility willing to recognize the Taliban government. But among its first policy decisions, the jihadi government refused to appoint any woman as a minister and abolished the ministry of women’s affairs.[1] The Taliban rejected any suggestion to appoint members of non-Sunni communities, such as Sikhs and Shi’ites to ministerial posts, leading to demands that the Taliban pursue an “inclusive” government policy before their diplomatic recognition.
Within a month of forming its government, the Taliban also ordered Afghan women – who were ahead of American women in getting the right to vote – to to [sic] cover their heads, to not carry mobile phones with cameras, and to not travel without a mehram, i.e., male relative….
In a statement, videos of which appeared online in September 2022, the Taliban education minister justified the education ban based on culture and Islam: “If you stand in the Uruzgan bazaar and ask elders of our villages, you will find it out yourself. If you ask [someone] in the mosque what percent of elders and what percent of people are ready to send their 16- and 17-year-old daughters to school, there will be no need to ask me this question.”…
DHZ says
All this will come out in a documentary TV show that will never air on any cable TV channel because it will never be produced because no network will ever imagine doing it. Same goes for China and all Muslim majority countries with the possible exception of Egypt. But North and South Korea are always on the table. Maybe India as long as it makes HIndus look bad. All Western democracies are considered fair game for critical media exposure with the risk decreasing for countries that adopt more and more Communist policies.
Afghanistan itself is now under universal protection policies that include clauses ensuring limited to little media exposure. To ensure client safety these policies are never officially recorded but may, unfortunately, be uncovered in emails and other recorded discussions that were expected to remain secret within each associated broadcast or social media outlet. Reporters are discouraged from investigating Afghanistan by getting fired for doing so.
Keith O says
Islam’s debasement of women is sickening,
This is nothing more than attempt to keep them enslaved as nothing more than house slaves and breeding machines.
Add to this the reports of the education levels, or lack thereof, of the “education minister”, then these edicts are more than a little perverse. Perhaps he doesn’t want a woman being able to read and right because that would make them smarter than him.
Which, from all accounts wouldn’t be a challenge.
John ..Smith says
Wow, there’s no getting away from it. What beautiful looking women those two dressed in blue are.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, we should have them in the next Ms Afghanistan contest 😈
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
I think I’m partial to the light blue burqa. (sarc/off)
Deodata says
I know why they do that, Islam is designed like that because they are scared stiff that if women get educated. First they will start asking questions, next will be a coup because they will realise how stupid the men are.
Walter Sieruk says
The Taliban have banned women from 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.
Walter Sieruk says
In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime has banned women for 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 are 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, which is linked, to first is that the Taliban want the women trapped in Afghanistan 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.”
OLD GUY says
Oh yes Islam is such a wonderful loving religion “NOT”. Why do all the supposedly educated liberals cover up and turn their heads to the hate and violence of Islam? Where are the Women’s liberation groups or the LGBTQ-etc. groups when it comes to the atrocities being thrown at Women/Girls and the LGBTQ individuals? “Absent,” WHY????