The Taliban has demanded that women wear hijab when they go outside and that those attending private colleges wear an abaya robe and niqab that covers most of their faces.
The Taliban have captured nearly all of Afghanistan, and despite resistance forces putting up a brave fight, the former had superior numbers, resulting in the Talibans' capture of the country. Now, days after the US military has left the country, the Taliban have declared the formation of a new government, one of which includes a US-designated terrorist.
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the 'hijab,' a religious veil that covers the head, hair, and breast and is commonly worn by Muslim women, has been a source of contention. The Taliban has demanded that women wear hijab when they go outside and that those attending private colleges wear an abaya robe and niqab that covers most of their faces. The classrooms have also been advised that they should be segregated by gender, or at the very least by a curtain. And now, in a viral video, a Taliban member is seen comparing women who do not wear hijab to sliced melon.
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A Taliban official in an interview in Kabul on the importance of Hijab: “Do you buy a sliced melon or an intact melon🍈 . Of course the intact one. A woman without Hijab is like a sliced melon 🍉”pic.twitter.com/9lHpQnohyd
— Zia Shahreyar l ضیا شهریار (@ziashahreyar)The video has now gone viral and has been criticised for its misogynistic, sexist attitude, with netizens pointing out the terrible analogy and the fact that the man in the video is really insinuating 'purchasing' women. Let's take how netizens reacted to the clip:
But why you want to Buy women ?
— Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga (@TajinderBagga)Women in various parts of the world are controlled and subjected via religion under the guise of “God’s will”… until women see the sorce of their enslavement, they’ll never be equal or free. Where govt and religion are one- women are 0.
— Prevaricator Slay-or! (@plsticklmyfancy)Weird things keep happening in some parts of the world. In China they punish u for bearing hijab, in Afg. they punish u for not wearing hijab. Yet China and talibans are good friends.
— Shally shailendra (@Shallyshailend3)Also Read | Mullahs in power have no PhD or Master's but 'greatest of all', says Taliban's education minister
My question is why would you want to buy another human being? 🧕🏽 https://t.co/PZhNXwkzJ0
— JasbirBhogalRuprai (@jassi_kbr)Professor of Gender Studies! https://t.co/n9jRU7o2Ll
— Rajat Sethi (@RajatSethi86)