New in PJ Media: Over in the Afghanistan That Old Joe Biden Built, the status of women continues to worsen. Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif, who is the spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said Thursday that “it is very bad to see women (without the hijab) in some areas,” but he went much farther, […]
Taliban say women’s faces must be covered, but UK Muslim convert prof says they’re misunderstanding the religion
Tim Winter, an Englishman who converted to Islam in 1979, says he knows Islam better than the Taliban and suggests that they themselves admit this: “The word Taliban means students.” He asserts that “there was no scriptural mandate in Islam for face coverings and the Taliban would struggle to find anything in Islamic scripture that […]