Afghan girls are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in entrance of different girls, in line with a Taliban authorities minister.
It’s the newest restriction on girls following morality legal guidelines that ban them from elevating their voice and baring their faces exterior the house. They are already excluded from training after sixth grade, many public areas and most jobs.
Nobody from the Vice and Virtue Ministry was instantly out there Wednesday to make clear the official’s remarks or affirm if the prohibition would additionally change into a part of the morality legal guidelines.
During an occasion in jap Logar province on Sunday, Vice and Virtue Minister Khalid Hanafi stated: “It is prohibited for a grown girl to recite Quranic verses or carry out recitations in entrance of one other grown girl. Even chants of takbir (Allahu Akbar) will not be permitted.”
He stated that uttering related expressions like “subhanallah,” one other phrase central to the Islamic religion, was additionally not allowed. A girl was not permitted to carry out the decision to prayer, he advised the gathering. “So, there’s actually no permission for singing.”
Audio of Hanafi’s remarks was shared on the ministry’s social media platforms however was later deleted.
The ministry stated Tuesday {that a} nationwide consciousness program concerning the legal guidelines is underway involving ministry officers at provincial and district ranges.
“Organizing such applications will contribute to shaping public notion and growing consciousness of divine rulings,” the ministry added.
Afghan provinces are already barring the media from exhibiting photographs of residing issues, one other controversial and extensively criticized function of the morality legal guidelines.
The Taliban arrange the ministry for the “propagation of advantage and the prevention of vice” after seizing energy in 2021.
Since then, the ministry has enforced decrees issued by the Taliban management which have a disproportionate affect on girls and ladies, like gown codes, segregated training and employment, and having a male guardian once they journey.