“Islam allows us to pursue higher education. Nobody should stop us from learning.” All right. But “the Taliban government imposed the ban after accusing women students of ignoring a strict dress code and a requirement to be accompanied by a male relative to and from campus.” And that, unfortunately, is completely Islamic. The prohibition on women going out without a male guardian is not the Taliban’s invention. It’s basic, mainstream Sharia: “The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home…because of the hadith related by Bayhaqi that the Prophet…said, ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to allow someone into her husband’s house if he is opposed, or to go out of it if he is averse” (Reliance of the Traveller m10.4).
“Afghan universities open solely for men amid ‘heartbreaking’ ban on women,” by Estelle Emonet and Qubad Wali, AFP, March 6, 2023:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a “heartbreaking” ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force.
The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021 and has sparked global outrage — including across the Muslim world.
“It’s heartbreaking to see boys going to the university while we have to stay at home,” said Rahela, 22, from the central province of Ghor.
“This is gender discrimination against girls because Islam allows us to pursue higher education. Nobody should stop us from learning.”
The Taliban government imposed the ban after accusing women students of ignoring a strict dress code and a requirement to be accompanied by a male relative to and from campus….
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban bases ban of women from education on Sharia rule that they must be accompanied by male guardian
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Orthodox Islam.
jdow says
Snicker, if the men accompanied the women to school the men might become better educated. Heaven forbid!
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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.”
ET says
On this International Women’s day I say you can pick a man out of the gutter in any Islamic country, give them a name, a standing, a position and they are still a result of women marrying their cousins, uncles, your own grandpa / barbarian halfwits.
gravenimage says
This is seldom the choice of women. Most women–or girls–in Afghanistan have arranged and even forced marriages.