The Taliban is following Islamic teachings about female coverings.
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.
These principles are based on the assumption that it is the woman’s job to prevent men from being tempted. If her face tempts men, she must cover that as well. TV anchors to the Taliban are not above the Sharia; nor is anyone, for that matter.
“Taliban enforcing face-cover order for female TV anchors,” by Rahim Faiez, Associated Press, May 22, 2022:
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Sunday began enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move is part of a hard-line shift drawing condemnation from rights activists.
After the order was announced Thursday, only a handful of news outlets complied. But on Sunday, most female anchors were seen with their faces covered after the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Ministry began enforcing the decree.
The Information and Culture Ministry previously announced that the policy was “final and non-negotiable.”
“It is just an outside culture imposed on us forcing us to wear a mask and that can create a problem for us while presenting our programs,” said Sonia Niazi, a TV anchor with TOLOnews. In an act of solidarity with female colleagues, the channel’s male personnel covered their faces with masks, including the main evening news reader.
A local media official confirmed his station had received the order last week but on Sunday it was forced to implement it after being told it was not up for discussion. He spoke on condition he and his station remain anonymous for fear of retribution from Taliban authorities.
During the Taliban’s last time in power in Afghanistan from 1996-2001, they imposed overwhelming restrictions on women, requiring them to wear the all-encompassing burqa and barring them from public life and education.
After they seized power again in August, the Taliban initially appeared to have moderated somewhat their restrictions, announcing no dress code for women. But in recent weeks, they have made a sharp, hard-line pivot that has confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and further complicated Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community.
Earlier this month, the Taliban ordered all women in public to wear head-to-toe clothing that leaves only their eyes visible. The decree said women should leave the home only when necessary and that male relatives would face punishment for women’s dress code violations, starting with a summons and escalating to court hearings and jail time…….
Black Sabbath says
So many Darth Vaders….and Stormtroopers….sounds like scif movie.
mortimer says
The real usefulness of the Islamic veil is to conceal a woman from other men so that her first male cousin will retain the right of first refusal. Further to that, the veil isolates Muslim women from other women and most men and helps the head of the household better to control her. The Islamic home is thus dysfunctional, operating on the basis of fear, not love, and keeping each household member suspicious of one another.
Today, the veil is used to keep Muslim women from becoming ‘Westernized’ and becoming uncontrollable and finally from losing their Islamic faith. As Muslim women have access to the internet and are able to read Islam’s primary, source texts, they gain awareness of the huge number of misogynistic statements from Mohammed, his followers and other Islamic authorities. Veiled or not, women are dropping out of Islam.
Infidel says
For news anchors, why don’t they just put in an Alexa device, and drape it under a black burqa, w/o even the eyes? And then have it make its news announcements in the voice of their favorite mullah. Would enable them to get all those muslimahs fired. Honestly, all Afghan ‘refugees’ who break our laws by practicing bacha-bazi or ‘honor’-killings, we should just send them back to the Taliban, rather than allow them to do prison dawa here
OLD GUY says
I guess muslim men are too weak to control themselves when they see a women face. Sure glade the rest of us MEN don’t mess ourselves at the sight of a women.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Afghanistan’s news media is officially a cover-up and that’s a wrap. No more Western style bald faced lies will be tolerated.