New Delhi (IANS)| Afghan women around the world are protesting the Taliban’s new hijab decree in schools by posting pictures of themselves dressed in colorful traditional attire on social media. The Taliban have made it mandatory for boy, girl students to sit separately in classes and said that female students, lecturers and staff must wear the hijab in accordance with the group’s interpretation of Sharia law.
The Taliban has mandated gender segregation in classrooms and said female students, lecturers and staff must wear the hijab in accordance with the group’s interpretation of Sharia law. Photographs of a group of female students dressed in head-to-toe black and waving Taliban flags have emerged in the lecture hall of a government university in Kabul. Other Afghan women responded by posting photos of themselves in bright and colorful traditional Afghan attire, in stark contrast to the black hijab mandate outlined by the Taliban.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Bahar Jalali, a former faculty member at the American University of Afghanistan, helped launch the photo-posting campaign, CNN reports, according to other women who shared the photos on Twitter. Jalali tweeted a picture of a woman in full black dress and veil and said, “No woman in the history of Afghanistan has worn such clothes. It is completely foreign and foreign to Afghan culture. Promoted by Taliban To inform, educate and dispel misinformation being spread, I posted my picture in traditional Afghan dress.”
Other Afghan women soon joined him on social media, the report said. Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi, head of the Afghan service at DW News, tweeted a photo of herself in traditional Afghan dress and headdress and commented, “This is Afghan culture and this is how Afghan women dress.” Shakiba Timori, an Afghan singer and activist who fled Kabul last month, told CNN that “the hijab existed before the fall of Kabul. We could see hijabi women, but it was based on decisions of the family and not the decisions of the government.” was based.” He said that before the Taliban came to Afghanistan, their ancestors “were wearing the same colorful Afghan clothes you see in my pictures.”