They cannot make their voices heard in every sense: not only can they no longer access most of the job opportunities, attend schools or public places such as gyms and parks, nor practice sports, but from now on even the names of Afghan authors will be definitively banned.
This is the last shocking diktat imposed by the Taliban government that removed the books written by women by the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new educational decree that also prohibits education courses “considered in conflict with the Islamic Sharia“.
At least 679 titles were banned due to their “anti-sharia policies “. The books concerned cover all the fields of study, including texts on constitutional law, Islamic political movements and the political system, as well as human rights, studies on women and western political thought.
The reason? In a letter addressed to Afghan universities, the deputy academic director of the Ministry of Higher Education, Auntur Rahman Aryoubisaid that a group of “scholars and religious experts” discovered that the prohibited books violate the Taliban interpretation of the laws of Sharia.
The decree also instructed universities to ban 18 university courses that would go against religious laws, adding that other 201 university “problematic” university courses are still in the revision phase.
Since he returned to power in August 2021, the Taliban government has imposed a grip on the life of women, in particular through the so -called moral laws, which prohibit them from showing the face outside the home.
Now, every book torn from the hands of Afghan women is one less voice, a thought that silenced, a future deleted. The new Taliban decision does not affect only culture and education, but the very essence of female freedom and identity. Privating a people of knowledge means condemning him to silence and darkness: and this is precisely the fate that today is imposed on the women of Afghanistan, forced to live as if they did not exist.
Sources: Independent Persian
