Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have stated “that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.” Why, of course. The male guardianship program is a stipulation of Islamic law. What’s more, the Taliban has fashioned its system of governance after that of Iran. Both Iran (the world’s leading Shia country) and Saudi Arabia (one of the world’s leading Sunni countries) have guardianship programs, as they are Islamic and in keeping with Sharia, which holds that women are inferior to men:
Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has made one of them to excel the other, and because they spend (to support them) from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient (to Allah and to their husbands), and guard in the husband’s absence what Allah orders them to guard (e.g. their chastity, their husband’s property, etc.). As to those women on whose part you see ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (next), refuse to share their beds, (and last) beat them (lightly, if it is useful), but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of annoyance). Surely, Allah is Ever Most High, Most Great. (Quran 4:34)
Women are also required by the Quran to be fully covered, as per the Sharia:
And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed. (Quran 24:31)
O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. (Quran 33:59)
Even “the call of nature” is a matter of permission from the male guardian:
Narrated ‘Aisha: The Prophet said to his wives, “You are allowed to go out to answer the call of nature.” (Bukhari 4:149)
“No Trips For Afghan Women Unless Escorted By Male Relative: Taliban,” NDTV, December 26, 2021:
Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.
The guidance, issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also called on all vehicle owners to offer rides only to those women wearing Islamic hijabs.
“Women travelling for more than 45 miles (72 kilometres) should not be offered a ride if they are not accompanied by a close family member,” ministry spokesman Sadeq Akif Muhajir told AFP on Sunday, specifying that it must be a close male relative.
The guidance, circulated on social media networks, comes weeks after the ministry asked Afghanistan’s television channels to stop showing dramas and soap operas featuring women actors.
The ministry had also called on women TV journalists to wear hijabs while presenting.
Muhajir said Sunday that the hijab would also be required for women seeking transport. The ministry’s directive also asked people to stop playing music in their vehicles.
The Taliban’s interpretation of the hijab — which can range from a hair covering to a face veil or full-body covering — is unclear, and the majority of Afghan women already wear headscarves.
Since taking power in August, the Taliban have imposed various restrictions on women and girls, despite pledging a softer rule compared with their first stint in power in the 1990s.
In several provinces, local Taliban authorities have been persuaded to reopen schools — but many girls still remain cut off from secondary education.
Early this month, the Islamist group issued a decree in the name of their supreme leader instructing the government to enforce women’s rights….
revereridesagain says
‘… that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire…”
Don’t forget that according to the law of Allahoochiekoo they can also be accompanied by their slaves and their eunuchs.
One of the World’s Great Religions!!
PRCS says
‘they can also be accompanied by their slaves and their eunuchs’
Qur’an 24:31 (…and not expose their adornment except to…)
The reason those exceptions include a Muslim woman’s slaves and eunuchs is simple: as any rational thinking person must conclude, Qur’an was not “revealed” by a forgiving god but written by people in a place and time where slavery and other brutalities were just a fact of life.
No matter where on the planet, anyone who claims modesty is the veil’s purpose should be challenged to either defend that slavery/mutilation exception or to reject “Allah’s” word.
gravenimage says
revereridesagain wrote:
‘… that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire…”
Don’t forget that according to the law of Allahoochiekoo they can also be accompanied by their slaves and their eunuchs.
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“Having no physical desire” specifically refers to castration of slaves.
God, I hate Islam.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Bag ’em or tag ’em. Death to any female who refuses to live in a bag. The sausage fest that is Afghanistan marches on.
E T says
The new/old, as in 1400 years old, spring look is stunning and it comes in 50 shades of grey to black, absolutely Devine!
jewdog says
I guess Britney Spears should avoid Afghanistan.
gravenimage says
I take your point–no guardian.
But *everyone* should avoid Afghanistan.
tim gallagher says
2021 and you still have Muslim fuckwits who believe that this is the way human beings should live. As revereridesagain says, up above, yeah, islam is one of the World’s Great Religions. Islam is a load of primitive crap which is fit only for knuckle draggers not civilised human beings. People in 2021 should be ashamed to live in this Islamic caveman way.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban implements ‘no travel for women’ rule unless accompanied by male guardian
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So much for “Taliban 2.0”. Oddly, few are still using that term…
Walter Sieruk says
The Taliban putting a ban on woman in Afghanistan Traveling more than 45 miles unless accompanied by a male relative would actually not so very terrible if that would be the limit to the harsh brutal and even murderous oppression the Taliban inflects in the women of Afghanistan.
Sadly and tragically, this is not the case. For the lying Taliban will, would and did break their promise of respecting women’s rights. There is no doubt that they ever intended to keep that promise they had made.
When a Taliban spokesman in referring to the question of the basic human rights of females, both girls and women, he declared” We guarantee all their rights within the limits of Islam.”
All aware people who understand Islam know that the last four words of that statement has an obvious meaning.
Which is that with Islam the rights of females are very limited. As in within the Islamic view, they have little to no rights at all. .
As this has been so well explained by Brigitte Gabriel in her book, entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED in Chapter 9 of the title “Islam’s Contempt for Women” which informs its reader on page 171 “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.”
In addition, on the next page it further reads” Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
The tragic and sad reality is that Islam is a religion of brutal, cruel, harsh and even, at times, murderous misogyny.
Lyone Fein says
Thank you Joe Biden and all the feminists who voted for him.
OLD GUY says
That’s gotta hurt the mall sales. Let’s put this simple, if you support muslim/islamic countries with foreign aid or do business with them you are supporting violations against humanity.