Taliban say Islamic law prevails over women’s rights

The Government of the taliban assured this Saturday that the restrictions imposed on women in terms of education, work, and free movement, are necessary to shape the reality of the country within the norms of the islamic law either sharia.

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“The Islamic Emirate tries to regulate all affairs in the light of Islamic sharia. Due to his sense of responsibility towards his religion and his people, we cannot allow illegal actions in the country”, the main spokesman for the fundamentalist government, Zabiullah Mujahid, said in a statement.

The spokesman’s statement comes a day after a closed-door United Nations Security Council meeting on the tough bans on Afghan women and girls.

In a joint statement signed by eleven of the 15 members of the Security Council, the representatives urged the Taliban to immediately reverse all oppressive measures against women and girls, adhering to their commitments established by the United Nations.

“International organizations and countries must understand our country and our nation’s religious wishes that humanitarian issues not be linked to political issues”defended Mujahid.

Even so, “we are ready to cooperate with countries in all areas in accordance with the country’s religious principles and values,” he added.

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Since the fall of Kabul in August 2021, women have experienced a deterioration in their rights with restrictions such as segregation by sex in public places, the imposition of the veil or the obligation to be accompanied by a male relative on long journeys.

A reality that is increasingly similar to the time of the first fundamentalist regime between 1996 and 2001, when, according to a rigid interpretation of Islam and its strict social code known as Pashtunwali, they prohibited female attendance at schools and confined women to home.

Consulted by EFE, the Islamic scholar Malavi Mohammad Amin, maintained that prohibiting adolescents from education, universities and work is not an Islamic value, nor is it part of Afghan culture.

“I have to say that the Afghans were and are Muslims and they were already doing what Islam says. In case of any deviation, only some small reforms of a few days were necessary, not these long prohibitions”he concluded.

Source: Elcomercio

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