Women Under Sharia Archives
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Women Attacked, Violated, Disempowered, and Silenced Under Sharia
Clare M. Lopez
April 2023
The stories we bring to you this month focus on the status of women who live under Islamic Law (sharia). The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are among the world’s regimes under which some of the most horrific human rights abuses against women occur. Islamic Law consigns women to a second-class status under which the rights of men are accorded a superior status. Such unequal treatment derives from the Qur’an, which allows Muslim males to marry up to four women in addition to those “that your right hands possess” (i.e., sex slaves, Q 4:3) and to grant male children inheritance “equal to that of two females” (Q 4:11). In Surah 4:34, the Qur’an tells Muslim men that if they “fear disloyalty and ill conduct” from their wives, they should admonish them, refuse to share their beds, and “beat them”. Muslim men are told in Q: 2:223 that “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how you will” (no such thing as marital rape under sharia). [Editor’s Note - ‘tilth’ is cultivated land ready to seed]
Regarding the requirement that women must cover their hair and wear concealing clothing, this derives directly from Surahs 28:31 and 33:59, which connect covering up with not being “molested” (i.e., raped, by Muslim men). In this spirit, the IRI is cracking down on women and girls who have been in the forefront of the uprising against the Tehran regime since the September 2022 murder by the so-called “morality police” of the young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, for supposedly allowing some hair to show under her hijab.
“Two Iranian women arrested for not covering hair after man attacks them with yoghurt”, BBC, 1 April 2023
“Two women attacked with yoghurt in Iran arrested for not covering hair: Country’s chief justice says unveiled women will be prosecuted ‘without mercy’ after defiance”, The Guardian, April 1, 2023
“Iran Escalates Targeting of Women Who Refuse to Wear Mandatory Hijab”, Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), April 17, 2023
“Women not wearing hijab to be banned from Tehran metro – reports”, The Guardian, 10 April 2023
“Iran installs cameras to identify women breaking dress code”, CNN, April 8, 2023
“Chemical attacks on Iranian schoolgirls resume”, Jerusalem Post, April 16, 2023
Next, regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan are restricting the rights of women and girls to attend school/university—to confine them to the home where they are more closely under the domination of husbands, brothers, and sons but also to limit their ability to pursue a professional career outside the home.
“Taliban Bans Women From Working at U.N., Putting Afghan Aid at Risk”, Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2023
“Afghanistan girls' education: 'When I see the boys going to school, it hurts'”, BBC, 27 March 2023
“Afghanistan: Girls' education activist arrested by Taliban”, BBC, 28 March 2023
“UN says Afghan girls’ education activist arrested in Kabul”, Washington Times, March 28, 2023
Finally, we’ll recall that the Ayatollah Khomeini infamously said that “There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam.” Well, apparently under the Taliban in Afghanistan, that goes double for music during Ramadan.
“Taliban shutters women-run radio station for playing music”, NBC News, April 1, 2023
Clare M. Lopez
April 2023
The stories we bring to you this month focus on the status of women who live under Islamic Law (sharia). The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are among the world’s regimes under which some of the most horrific human rights abuses against women occur. Islamic Law consigns women to a second-class status under which the rights of men are accorded a superior status. Such unequal treatment derives from the Qur’an, which allows Muslim males to marry up to four women in addition to those “that your right hands possess” (i.e., sex slaves, Q 4:3) and to grant male children inheritance “equal to that of two females” (Q 4:11). In Surah 4:34, the Qur’an tells Muslim men that if they “fear disloyalty and ill conduct” from their wives, they should admonish them, refuse to share their beds, and “beat them”. Muslim men are told in Q: 2:223 that “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how you will” (no such thing as marital rape under sharia). [Editor’s Note - ‘tilth’ is cultivated land ready to seed]
Regarding the requirement that women must cover their hair and wear concealing clothing, this derives directly from Surahs 28:31 and 33:59, which connect covering up with not being “molested” (i.e., raped, by Muslim men). In this spirit, the IRI is cracking down on women and girls who have been in the forefront of the uprising against the Tehran regime since the September 2022 murder by the so-called “morality police” of the young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, for supposedly allowing some hair to show under her hijab.
“Two Iranian women arrested for not covering hair after man attacks them with yoghurt”, BBC, 1 April 2023
“Two women attacked with yoghurt in Iran arrested for not covering hair: Country’s chief justice says unveiled women will be prosecuted ‘without mercy’ after defiance”, The Guardian, April 1, 2023
“Iran Escalates Targeting of Women Who Refuse to Wear Mandatory Hijab”, Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), April 17, 2023
“Women not wearing hijab to be banned from Tehran metro – reports”, The Guardian, 10 April 2023
“Iran installs cameras to identify women breaking dress code”, CNN, April 8, 2023
“Chemical attacks on Iranian schoolgirls resume”, Jerusalem Post, April 16, 2023
Next, regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan are restricting the rights of women and girls to attend school/university—to confine them to the home where they are more closely under the domination of husbands, brothers, and sons but also to limit their ability to pursue a professional career outside the home.
“Taliban Bans Women From Working at U.N., Putting Afghan Aid at Risk”, Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2023
“Afghanistan girls' education: 'When I see the boys going to school, it hurts'”, BBC, 27 March 2023
“Afghanistan: Girls' education activist arrested by Taliban”, BBC, 28 March 2023
“UN says Afghan girls’ education activist arrested in Kabul”, Washington Times, March 28, 2023
Finally, we’ll recall that the Ayatollah Khomeini infamously said that “There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam.” Well, apparently under the Taliban in Afghanistan, that goes double for music during Ramadan.
“Taliban shutters women-run radio station for playing music”, NBC News, April 1, 2023
Legal Under Islamic Law: Women, Honk If You Love Sharia
Clare M. Lopez
March 2023
“Italy: Muslim migrant murders his mother with hammer blows”, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 12 March 2023
“Afghan universities open solely for men amid ‘heartbreaking’ ban on women” by Estelle Emonet & Qubad Wali, Times of Israel, 6 March 2023
“Iran's judiciary says women will be punished for violating Islamic dress code -IRNA”, Reuters, March 6, 2023
“Denmark: Muslim migrant takes 12-year-old to Somalia for marriage with 75-year-old, sells her when she refuses”, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, March 1, 2023
“'TRAUMATIC DEATH' Young woman, 20, ‘stabbed to death with metal spike by uncle then dumped “like rubbish” in honour killing’”, by Holly Christodoulou, The Sun, 1 March 2023
“VIDEO: 10-year-old girl stabbed in the stomach - "Allahu akbar"”, Samnytt, March 2, 2023
“France: The sex offender Abdoulaye D. lured little girls into his room in the Adoma dormitory and then sexually abused them. He claimed “that he was teaching them the Koran””, Medforth, February 28, 2023
“Uproar in Turkey as religious body greenlights marriage with quake orphans” by Nazlan Ertan, Al-Monitor, February 22, 2023
“BBC, which employed the most famous pedophile in the world Jimmy Savile, comes out in support of child marriages in Assam” by Amit Kelkar, OpIndia, 13 February 2023
“Christian Girl Kidnapped by 60-Year-Old Muslim in Pakistan”, Morning Star News, February 13, 2023
“Sister of honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod tells of her joy at new marriage laws”, 247 News Around the World, 27 February 2023
“UK: Dover high school girls fear for their safety because of all Muslim migrants being dumped into their school”, Bare Naked Islam, March 1, 2023
“FRANCE: Sudanese Muslim illegal alien caught in the act of sexually assaulting a young woman aboard a tram”, Bare Naked Islam, March 4, 2023
Clare M. Lopez
March 2023
- Clare says: “If we can get folks to understand the extent to which all of this is literally legal under Islamic Law, and is taught as such to Muslim kids (including in madrassas across America) from the earliest ages, we'll have come a long ways to changing perspectives about Islam.”
“Italy: Muslim migrant murders his mother with hammer blows”, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 12 March 2023
- Although this likely was a so-called “honor killing”, Italian authorities investigating the killing claim that “the motive for the crime is unknown”.
“Afghan universities open solely for men amid ‘heartbreaking’ ban on women” by Estelle Emonet & Qubad Wali, Times of Israel, 6 March 2023
- Despite 20 years of U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, once the Taliban took over again in August 2021, shariah-based restrictions on women began again. It is unfortunately impossible to export a Judeo-Christian-based Western-style of liberal governance to a people and place entirely unwilling to accept it.
“Iran's judiciary says women will be punished for violating Islamic dress code -IRNA”, Reuters, March 6, 2023
- Iranian regime demand that women wear a hijab (head-covering veil) is based firmly on Qur’anic verses (Q 24:31 and Q 33:59). The September 2022 killing of the young Iranian Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, by Iran’s “morality police”, who bludgeoned her to death because her hijab slipped & showed some hair, launched the 6 months of street protests by the Iranian people which continue to this day.
“Denmark: Muslim migrant takes 12-year-old to Somalia for marriage with 75-year-old, sells her when she refuses”, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, March 1, 2023
- Under Islamic Law (shariah), women and girls are essentially commodities to be owned, abused, sold, and raped by men.
“'TRAUMATIC DEATH' Young woman, 20, ‘stabbed to death with metal spike by uncle then dumped “like rubbish” in honour killing’”, by Holly Christodoulou, The Sun, 1 March 2023
- UK court records indicate the young woman was murdered by her uncle in an honor killing in her own home in Bradford, England.
“VIDEO: 10-year-old girl stabbed in the stomach - "Allahu akbar"”, Samnytt, March 2, 2023
- Perpetrator was caught & arrested, but as usual, even though he was chanting “Allahu akbar” during the attack, Swedish authorities state “ the reason for the assault is still unclear”.
“France: The sex offender Abdoulaye D. lured little girls into his room in the Adoma dormitory and then sexually abused them. He claimed “that he was teaching them the Koran””, Medforth, February 28, 2023
- As Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch commented, “And maybe he was”. The Qur’an teaches that infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (Q 4:3, Q 4:24, Q 23:1-6, Q 33:50, Q 70:30)
“Uproar in Turkey as religious body greenlights marriage with quake orphans” by Nazlan Ertan, Al-Monitor, February 22, 2023
- Islamic Law (shariah) does not permit adoption as a legal status, but it does allow adoptive parents to marry adopted children—girls at age 9, boys at 12—paving the way for horrific child abuse.
“BBC, which employed the most famous pedophile in the world Jimmy Savile, comes out in support of child marriages in Assam” by Amit Kelkar, OpIndia, 13 February 2023
- Majority of underage child marriages in India occur in Muslim communities. BBC apparently thinks that’s OK.
“Christian Girl Kidnapped by 60-Year-Old Muslim in Pakistan”, Morning Star News, February 13, 2023
- The girl, from a Catholic family, was kidnapped, forcibly married, and converted to Islam by a 60-year-old Muslim man in Pakistan. The local police refused to even hear her father’s complaint, although later, the girl was recovered by her family.
“Sister of honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod tells of her joy at new marriage laws”, 247 News Around the World, 27 February 2023
- Iraqi Kurdish immigrant sisters in Britain faced forced marriages, rape, and murder at the hands of older Muslim men. Under the new Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act, the minimum legal age of marriage is now set at 18 in England and Wales and it is now illegal to arrange for children to marry under any circumstances. Those found guilty of doing so could be jailed for up to seven years.
- Editor’s Note: Banaz is the centerpiece of the ‘Spooked’ short story which puts Islam on trial for crimes against humanity. Find the story and the link to the radio theater production here.
- Little pre-teen girls were being harassed in a rural town of Cornwall by a group of adult Muslim men. Police investigated and thankfully the perpetrators “were given strong words of advice about their behavior”.
“UK: Dover high school girls fear for their safety because of all Muslim migrants being dumped into their school”, Bare Naked Islam, March 1, 2023
- Local UK school systems are being overrun with Muslim migrants with “different cultural norms”.
“FRANCE: Sudanese Muslim illegal alien caught in the act of sexually assaulting a young woman aboard a tram”, Bare Naked Islam, March 4, 2023
- Luckily this time a police officer observed the assault and arrested the perpetrator. This attack took place on a train in a suburb of Paris, France. Once again, under Islamic Law (shariah), sexual assaults against infidel women are perfectly legal, which young Muslim men are taught from an early age.
Beating, Rape, Disfigurement, or Honor Killing - Which Do You Choose?
Clare M. Lopez
February 2023
“Germany: Afghan slaughters mother of five in front of her children”
“Pakistan: Muslim throws acid on Christian when she won’t convert to Islam and enter into a relationship with him”
“France: An Islamist husband was sentenced. He had threatened – among other things – to disfigure his wife if she continued to speak in French. ‘It’s not serious, dad has the right to beat up mum to educate her’”
“French teenager saves 13-year-old girl from rape by Algerian migrant with 11 convictions”
“Interview: Jewish woman flees from the Palestinian Authority”
“HONOUR KILLING: 12-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLS MOTHER IN GUJRANWALA”
“UK: Muslim rapes underage girl, forces her to write letter asking cops to drop the case”
“We’ll f**k now, otherwise I’ll slit your throat” – Muslim asylum seeker rapes German female student”
“Afghan female students not allowed to sit university entrance exam”
Clare M. Lopez
February 2023
“Germany: Afghan slaughters mother of five in front of her children”
- She was his wife, so under sharia, he had legal ownership of her and the children, to do with them as he liked
“Pakistan: Muslim throws acid on Christian when she won’t convert to Islam and enter into a relationship with him”
- She was Christian and didn’t want to convert to Islam or enter a relationship with him
“France: An Islamist husband was sentenced. He had threatened – among other things – to disfigure his wife if she continued to speak in French. ‘It’s not serious, dad has the right to beat up mum to educate her’”
- Understand, this is not “Islamism”: it’s orthodox Islam and per Quran 4:34, a husband indeed is commanded to beat his wife if she doesn’t obey him
“French teenager saves 13-year-old girl from rape by Algerian migrant with 11 convictions”
- Quranic verse 33:50 makes quite clear that infidel women may be abused by Muslim men as “those whom your right hand possesses”
“Interview: Jewish woman flees from the Palestinian Authority”
- This one’s a story with a happy ending: Jewish woman, married to abusive Muslim man, escapes from Ramallah with her children
“HONOUR KILLING: 12-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLS MOTHER IN GUJRANWALA”
- While neither Quran nor hadiths speak explicitly to “honor killing’, when “honor” is in question, many Islamic countries’ legal codes are quite lenient.
“UK: Muslim rapes underage girl, forces her to write letter asking cops to drop the case”
- The Quran teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (“captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30)
“We’ll f**k now, otherwise I’ll slit your throat” – Muslim asylum seeker rapes German female student”
- See above.
- She wanted to pursue a career in Turkey. He decided that violated family honor.
“Afghan female students not allowed to sit university entrance exam”
- Women living under sharia are the property of their fathers, husbands, even sons. The 2004 Afghan constitution was written under U.S. Department of State supervision and subjects the country to Islamic Law.
Muslim Mannequin Madness
by Clare M. Lopez
January 2023
“Biden’s Taliban: Face Coverings Now Required Even for Mannequins”
“Taliban officially bans women from obtaining university education”
“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 Out Yourself”
Also in Afghanistan:
“Turkish ‘Progress’: Six-Year-Old Girl Married by Her Sheik Father”
“Iran man who decapitated teen wife and paraded her head in public gets 8-year prison sentence”
“Iran sentences woman to 10 years for removing hijab, calls it prostitution”
“Chinese facial recognition technology helping Iran to identify women breaking strict dress code: Report”
“Nigerian Christian female student stoned to death and set on fire by Muslims for disrespecting Islam”
“FRANCE: Algerian Muslim migrant arrested after trying to set fire to his girlfriend”
“ICNA’s Domestic Violence Awareness vs. ICNA’s Own Domestic Violence”
by Clare M. Lopez
January 2023
“Biden’s Taliban: Face Coverings Now Required Even for Mannequins”
“Taliban officially bans women from obtaining university education”
“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 Out Yourself”
- “Taliban university ban: ‘I wish God never created women’”
Also in Afghanistan:
- “After Banning Women From Universities, Taliban Now Prevents Women From Working at NGOs”
- “9-year-old girl sold into marriage rescued after CNN report”
“Turkish ‘Progress’: Six-Year-Old Girl Married by Her Sheik Father”
“Iran man who decapitated teen wife and paraded her head in public gets 8-year prison sentence”
“Iran sentences woman to 10 years for removing hijab, calls it prostitution”
“Chinese facial recognition technology helping Iran to identify women breaking strict dress code: Report”
“Nigerian Christian female student stoned to death and set on fire by Muslims for disrespecting Islam”
“FRANCE: Algerian Muslim migrant arrested after trying to set fire to his girlfriend”
“ICNA’s Domestic Violence Awareness vs. ICNA’s Own Domestic Violence”
- ICNA-controlled website: If husbands “fear disloyalty and ill conduct,” they must “admonish them (first), (next) refuse to share their beds (and last) beat them,” albeit “lightly.”
Property Rights? Fuggetaboutit!
by Clare M. Lopez
December 2022
“Islamic Republic of Iran demolishes family home of climber who competed without a hijab”
“U.S. Ambassador Under Fire for Wearing Hijab at Lebanon’s Request”
“Bangladesh: Three Muslims gang-rape Hindu woman, send the video to her son’s mobile phone” (Yes, this is legal under sharia)
“India: Muslim leader opposes pledge to give equal property rights to woman, it’s against the Qur’an” (It’s against Islamic Law, too)
“Afghanistan: Woman Flogged For Going To Shop Without Male Guardian”
“Germany: Iraqi man suffocated his sister four days after marrying her new husband to restore family honour”
“Germany: Two Muslim migrants rape, urinate upon and spit upon non-Muslim woman”
“Man strangles wife to death for refusing sex twice in a night”
“Afghan asylum seeker slits his wife’s throat in the street” for her Western lifestyle
“Veils on wheels: Iranian women clash with morality police in a moving bus” (Iranian women are fighting back)
by Clare M. Lopez
December 2022
“Islamic Republic of Iran demolishes family home of climber who competed without a hijab”
“U.S. Ambassador Under Fire for Wearing Hijab at Lebanon’s Request”
“Bangladesh: Three Muslims gang-rape Hindu woman, send the video to her son’s mobile phone” (Yes, this is legal under sharia)
“India: Muslim leader opposes pledge to give equal property rights to woman, it’s against the Qur’an” (It’s against Islamic Law, too)
“Afghanistan: Woman Flogged For Going To Shop Without Male Guardian”
“Germany: Iraqi man suffocated his sister four days after marrying her new husband to restore family honour”
“Germany: Two Muslim migrants rape, urinate upon and spit upon non-Muslim woman”
“Man strangles wife to death for refusing sex twice in a night”
“Afghan asylum seeker slits his wife’s throat in the street” for her Western lifestyle
“Veils on wheels: Iranian women clash with morality police in a moving bus” (Iranian women are fighting back)
Women Under Sharia
by Clare M. Lopez
November 2022
Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia (Islamic Law), which includes public executions for adultery, apostasy and homosexuality, stoning, flogging (including for female victims of rape), and the amputation of limbs
Afghan police broke up a news conference on 3 November 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan that was called to launch a new women’s movement called “Afghan Women’s Movement for Equality” and arrested a female activist, Zarifa Yaqobi, and four male colleagues
Taliban official whips young women students outside Badakhshan University in northeastern Afghanistan because their hijabs were deemed insufficient covering under Islamic Law—Taliban demand full burka or at minimum a niqab to cover female faces
Five young men “with non-Western asylum-related immigrant backgrounds” (four Syrians, one ‘stateless’) were arrested by Swedish police in Malmo on 22 October 2022 in the very act of raping a woman. Unfortunately, the Qur’an teaches that infidel women may be taken lawfully for sexual use (see Q 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30), especially if their clothing does not cover them head-to-toe (see Q 33:59)
Sweden has one of the highest rates of rape in the world, with high percentage of offenders being of Muslim immigrant background
Completely legal under shariah: a 14-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped in Pakistan, likely raped, allegedly converted to Islam, and then forcibly married to her abductor
Under shariah, women are property of their husbands: an Iranian Muslim husband beheaded his 17-year-old wife and paraded her severed head in the streets
‘Hijab distinguishes Muslim women from others so molesters [rapists] can spare them’
In early November 2022, the beheaded bodies of two young Egyptian girls aged 11 and 13 were found in a sewage system in a Syrian camp housing Islamic State families: if these children were accused of some shariah infraction, it would have been completely legal under Islamic Law to kill them
Female fans at FIFA World Cup 2022 soccer games in Qatar run the risk of arrest and imprisonment if their clothing is not deemed sufficiently Islamic
by Clare M. Lopez
November 2022
Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia (Islamic Law), which includes public executions for adultery, apostasy and homosexuality, stoning, flogging (including for female victims of rape), and the amputation of limbs
Afghan police broke up a news conference on 3 November 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan that was called to launch a new women’s movement called “Afghan Women’s Movement for Equality” and arrested a female activist, Zarifa Yaqobi, and four male colleagues
Taliban official whips young women students outside Badakhshan University in northeastern Afghanistan because their hijabs were deemed insufficient covering under Islamic Law—Taliban demand full burka or at minimum a niqab to cover female faces
Five young men “with non-Western asylum-related immigrant backgrounds” (four Syrians, one ‘stateless’) were arrested by Swedish police in Malmo on 22 October 2022 in the very act of raping a woman. Unfortunately, the Qur’an teaches that infidel women may be taken lawfully for sexual use (see Q 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30), especially if their clothing does not cover them head-to-toe (see Q 33:59)
Sweden has one of the highest rates of rape in the world, with high percentage of offenders being of Muslim immigrant background
Completely legal under shariah: a 14-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped in Pakistan, likely raped, allegedly converted to Islam, and then forcibly married to her abductor
Under shariah, women are property of their husbands: an Iranian Muslim husband beheaded his 17-year-old wife and paraded her severed head in the streets
‘Hijab distinguishes Muslim women from others so molesters [rapists] can spare them’
In early November 2022, the beheaded bodies of two young Egyptian girls aged 11 and 13 were found in a sewage system in a Syrian camp housing Islamic State families: if these children were accused of some shariah infraction, it would have been completely legal under Islamic Law to kill them
Female fans at FIFA World Cup 2022 soccer games in Qatar run the risk of arrest and imprisonment if their clothing is not deemed sufficiently Islamic
12/14/21
Fall of Afghanistan a Disaster for Women
There is no bigger disaster for women in recent times than the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban:
National Geographic magazine’s famous green-eyed “Afghan Girl” forced to flee to Italy
Taliban abolishes Ministry of Women’s Affairs, turns building into headquarters for morality police
Taliban whips and beats women protesting all-male interim government
Taliban going door-to-door taking girls over 12 as sex slaves
Taliban limits women’s ‘rights’ to what sharia commands - covered head to toe and locked away unless in the company of a male relative
Taliban ‘Virtue’ ministry extols separating the sexes as ‘fundamental Islamic value’
Taliban lets girls attend high school in western province of Herat - for now
Afghan women forbidden from playing cricket and other sports where the female form can be seen
Taliban breaks into headquarters of all-female orchestra, destroys musical instruments
Taliban government bans women from TV dramas and requires all women to wear headscarves on-screen
How long would the average American woman put up with this?
Fall of Afghanistan a Disaster for Women
There is no bigger disaster for women in recent times than the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban:
National Geographic magazine’s famous green-eyed “Afghan Girl” forced to flee to Italy
Taliban abolishes Ministry of Women’s Affairs, turns building into headquarters for morality police
Taliban whips and beats women protesting all-male interim government
Taliban going door-to-door taking girls over 12 as sex slaves
Taliban limits women’s ‘rights’ to what sharia commands - covered head to toe and locked away unless in the company of a male relative
Taliban ‘Virtue’ ministry extols separating the sexes as ‘fundamental Islamic value’
Taliban lets girls attend high school in western province of Herat - for now
Afghan women forbidden from playing cricket and other sports where the female form can be seen
Taliban breaks into headquarters of all-female orchestra, destroys musical instruments
Taliban government bans women from TV dramas and requires all women to wear headscarves on-screen
How long would the average American woman put up with this?