Theft, adultery, consumption of alcohol, renunciation of religion or rebellion are considered by Sharia to be the most serious offences. They must now be punished in accordance with religious texts. In other words, by the amputation of a hand or an arm, by stoning, by flogging or by public execution. Exactly like at the end of the 90s, when Afghanistan, under the thumb of the fundamentalists, had plunged into the most barbaric obscuratism.
The order once again came from the supreme leader of the Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since their return to power in August 2021 and so it was his spokesman who went public with this. new decree by simply publishing a message on Twitter on Sunday November 13.
Since last week, women no longer have the right to show themselves in Kabul’s parks and gardens, even with the burqa or hijab becoming compulsory in public spaces. The hammams are also forbidden to them. Gyms, even those reserved for them.
Taliban banned young girls from going to school; women from working, traveling alone, going to parks or gym & forced them to wear a hijab/burqa.
But the fearless women of Afghanistan CANNOT be silenced. These women in Herat chant — “Education is our right. Silence is a crime.” pic.twitter.com/b7ff1Dh2RR
—Shabnam Nasimi (@NasimiShabnam) November 13, 2022
Already banned from political life, from certain professions, from colleges and high schools, women and girls have seen their rights shrink like a trickle for fifteen months and their country is transformed into a prison. They can no longer travel without a male guardian by their side. In recent months most of them have lost their jobs and are simply confined to their homes.
Why don’t the Taliban keep their word by practicing moderate Islam? To strengthen their religious identity, their theocratic rule among Muslim countries, to create the fear and submission that society had gradually lost over the past twenty years. But also to nip in the bud any contagion that might come from Iran where the protest movement against the mullahs’ regime is lasting and spreading. In Afghanistan, women do not protest against the wearing of the veil, but regularly, in small groups, during flash demonstrations in Herat, Kabul or Mazar-e-Sharif, they march with placards and slogans to demand the right to education. and at work. The right to exist.
Afghan women despite being under immense pressure and Deprived of their all human and basic rights themselves decided to protest In Solidarity and support of Women of Iran, in front of Iranian Embassy in Kabul.#Mahsa_Amini #OpIran
pic.twitter.com/XkfXLayDRE— Nilofar Ayoubi (@NilofarAyoubi) September 29, 2022
With the same slogan as their Iranian sisters: “Zan, Zendagi, Azadi“, (translation : “woman, life, freedom“). Which always ends in brutal dispersals and arrests. The difference is that in Iran the men support the women in their fight. In Afghanistan the pressure is such that if women demonstrate, it is their husbands , their fathers or their brothers who are arrested in their place.The Taliban will not leave the slightest space for protest.