Taliban Bans Women From ‘Hearing Other Women’s Voices’
Taliban bans women ‘hearing other women’s voices’ in latest decree
The Taliban has once again taken steps to further impose extreme restrictions on women under its interpretation of sharia law in Afghanistan, this time banning women from “hearing other women’s voices” while they pray, reports said this week.
Khalid Hanafi, acting minister of the Vice and Virtue Ministry, made the announcement over a voice message posted to the ministry’s social media pages, though it has since been taken down, confirmed The Associated Press.
"Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear," he said in a message reported to have been “rambling” by The Telegraph.
Specific details of the ban remain unclear, as women are already forbidden from engaging in call-to-prayer or from speaking in public. They must also be fully covered, including their faces, under a new law decreed by the ministry in August.
“It is prohibited for a grown woman to recite Quranic verses or perform recitations in front of another grown woman. Even chants of takbir (Allahu Akbar) are not permitted,” Hanafi said in the message reportedly posted on Monday. “So, there is certainly no permission for singing.”
The ban on public speaking enforced in August also means that women speaking inside their homes should not be able to be heard from outside.
This latest ban appears to be an attempt to bar women from praying or from using expressions like “subhanallah” – which is a common phrase essentially meaning “Glory be to Allah” – even while in their own homes if they are in front of other women.
The Taliban have claimed these extremely oppressive measures on women are a move to stop them from "temptation and tempting others," and women in Afghanistan are required to have a male guardian whenever they leave their homes.
Women who are found to have defied the rules are arrested and imprisoned.
Those guys are something else. My buddy worked in Kabul for almost 7 years, and in that time they had a few women in their workplace. Man tells me the Afghan colleagues were always alert when a woman entered his office, they would create an excuse to hover around just to spy on him–some guy must pop in with nothing to say, then walk out like he’d forgotten something–always thinking he would be up to something. Very stupid behaviour. So he learned to keep the door open whenever a lady entered his office.
They are overprotective, in a way that borders on paranoia. It’s like the guys assume a man will always try to take advantage of their women, no matter the circumstances. Once I visited the house of a female Somali teacher in my former school, though she never taught me, she came there years later. Quite a lovely lady really, but she always kept herself all wrapped up when walking about, so the beauty was never seen. So it was a privilege to see the real her. Even in her house, I remember her telling me, you know you’re not supposed to see my arms and my hair, if someone knew I was sitting with you talking like this I’d be in trouble. I found that very wierd, you cannot be free even in your home! This is a standalone house inside school staff quarters–though I wasn’t there for any monkey business, what @TrumanCapote might call chimpanzee business. Don’t ask what I was doing there, hehe
Hehe, not likely to happen to me. I don’t eat anything in people’s houses. Besides, I promised I shall live long coz you and I have lots of unfinished business.
I low key would wanna live in Afghanistan and experience that life where women are mere objects.
Giving rights to women leads to homosexuality and degradation of morals.
On the other hand, Some Muslims are oppressive khat chewing mfckrs who would absolutely have no chance seducing and marrying a free woman like the ones we have in Kenya.
They must therefore, zero graze and break their women.
I fully expect that the next step is legalization of rape, since women are sexual objects. Then the next after that is death to rape victims by stoning, because the women committed a heinous act.
If you ever think of people who are worse than monkeys, think Afghanistan
