New Delhi: Afghan women across the world are protesting TalibanNew hijab decrees in schools posted pictures of themselves wearing colorful traditional clothes on social media, CNN informed of.
The Taliban has mandated gender segregation in classrooms and said female students, lecturers and staff must wear the hijab in accordance with the group’s interpretation of Sharia law.
Images of a group of girl students dressed in head-to-toe black and waving Taliban flags have emerged in the lecture hall of a government university in Kabul.
Other Afghan women responded by posting photos of themselves in bright and colorful traditional Afghan costumes – the exact opposite of the black hijab mandate outlined by the Taliban.
Bahar JalaliAccording to her LinkedIn profile, a former faculty member at the American University of Afghanistan helped launch the photo-posting campaign, according to other women who shared the photos on Twitter, CNN reports.
Jalali tweeted a photo of a woman in a full black dress and veil and said: “No woman in the history of Afghanistan has ever worn clothes like this. It is completely foreign and foreign to Afghan culture. I have seen traditional Afghans.” Posted my picture in dress. To inform, educate and dispel misinformation being propagated by Taliban.”
The report said that other Afghan women soon followed him on social media.
vasalato Hasrat-Nazimi, chief of the Afghan service at DW Newstweeted a photo of herself in traditional Afghan dress and headdress and commented: “This is Afghan culture and this is how Afghan women dress.”
Shakiba Timori, an Afghan singer and activist who fled Kabul last month, told CNN that “the hijab was there before the fall of Kabul. We could see.” hijabi women, but it was based on the decisions of the family, not the government.”
She said that before the Taliban came to Afghanistan, her ancestors “were wearing the same colorful Afghan dress you see in my pictures”.
The Taliban has mandated gender segregation in classrooms and said female students, lecturers and staff must wear the hijab in accordance with the group’s interpretation of Sharia law.
Images of a group of girl students dressed in head-to-toe black and waving Taliban flags have emerged in the lecture hall of a government university in Kabul.
Other Afghan women responded by posting photos of themselves in bright and colorful traditional Afghan costumes – the exact opposite of the black hijab mandate outlined by the Taliban.
Bahar JalaliAccording to her LinkedIn profile, a former faculty member at the American University of Afghanistan helped launch the photo-posting campaign, according to other women who shared the photos on Twitter, CNN reports.
Jalali tweeted a photo of a woman in a full black dress and veil and said: “No woman in the history of Afghanistan has ever worn clothes like this. It is completely foreign and foreign to Afghan culture. I have seen traditional Afghans.” Posted my picture in dress. To inform, educate and dispel misinformation being propagated by Taliban.”
The report said that other Afghan women soon followed him on social media.
vasalato Hasrat-Nazimi, chief of the Afghan service at DW Newstweeted a photo of herself in traditional Afghan dress and headdress and commented: “This is Afghan culture and this is how Afghan women dress.”
Shakiba Timori, an Afghan singer and activist who fled Kabul last month, told CNN that “the hijab was there before the fall of Kabul. We could see.” hijabi women, but it was based on the decisions of the family, not the government.”
She said that before the Taliban came to Afghanistan, her ancestors “were wearing the same colorful Afghan dress you see in my pictures”.
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