Taliban chief needs to ban neckties, says solely spiritual schooling obligatory in Afghanistan

Ever because the Taliban overthrew the democratically elected authorities in Afghanistan in 2021, the Islamic regime has imposed sure bans and restrictions over something it deems not according to the Sharia legal guidelines. In their newest onslaught on Western outfits, the Taliban has raised concern over neckties, stating that they seem like a Christian cross and referred to as for a full ban on it within the Sharia-governed nation.

Mohammad Hashim Shaheed Wror, the chief of the Invitation and Guidance Directorate, the division that goals to information the Afghan individuals alongside the official Islamic guidelines, said on July 26 that sporting neckties is in violation of Sharia legislation.

“When I go to hospitals and other places, an Afghan Muslim engineer or doctor sometimes wears a necktie,” Mohammad Hashim Shaheed Wror said at an occasion in Kabul, as reported by Tolo TV.

Necktie is sort of a Christian cross

Mohammad Hashim Wror made a weird declare {that a} necktie originated from the Christian cross. He went on to say that the Islamic Sharia instructions Muslims to raze and destroy the Christian cross. The head of the Islamic organisation insinuated that neckties must be banned within the nation. 

“The history of (the necktie) is obvious in Islam. What is a tie? It is the cross. The cross looks like this. It is ordered in Shariah that you should break it and eliminate it,” he mentioned.

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“The cross is a symbol of pagans. The cross is the symbol of Jesus’ martyrdom. They say Jesus was hung like this,” he added.

It is pertinent to recall that in April final 12 months, it was reported that the Taliban directed the varsity lecturers and college students to chorus from sporting neckties. The ban on neckties in colleges was confirmed by Taliban’s Ministry of Education spokesperson Ayaz Ahmad Rayan. 

Sharia schooling is obligatory, not fashionable schooling

Speaking on the identical occasion, Mohammad Hashim Shaheed Wror additionally mentioned that studying fashionable schooling is just not compulsory, however spiritual schooling is obligatory and Afghans must study it. “The education that we say is obligatory at every stage for both men and women is religious education, not other education,” he mentioned.

However, Mohammad Tahir Ahmadi, the deputy Minister of Higher Education, disagreed with him. Speaking on the identical occasion, he mentioned that studying fashionable schooling can also be compulsory and that the Afghans must study it aside from Islamic schooling.

Taliban and its orders imposing Sharia in Afghanistan

Notably, Afghan girls have been the worst victims of the regime change within the nation as they’ve been barred from getting college and college schooling. Furthermore, the Taliban administration dictates what the ladies there are permitted to put on and what they can’t, based mostly on Islamic Sharia legislation. 

In July of this 12 months, the Taliban’s morality ministry ordered that every one women-run institutions corresponding to hair and sweetness salons be closed down inside a month of receiving preliminary info, which was delivered to them on July 2nd. 

Under Taliban management, teenage women and girls had been forbidden from coming into lecture rooms, gyms, and parks. The girls in Afghanistan have additionally been barred from working for the United Nations and a number of other worldwide non-governmental organisations after the Taliban’s order on twenty fourth December 2022. The Taliban banned girls from working in NGOs alleging that they don’t seem to be sporting the Islamic headband appropriately

In addition, the Taliban has imposed a extreme gown code for ladies. Women in Afghanistan are required to cowl up and put on a garment that solely exposes their eyes. Women should even be accompanied by male kinfolk if they’re travelling greater than 72 kilometres (48 miles).

Another diktat issued by the Taliban regime in January this 12 months directed feminine attire companies to hide mannequins displaying the clothes articles. The mannequins with their heads lined symbolised the Taliban’s puritanical rule over Afghanistan.