News outlets have also been ordered “not to mock or humiliate Islam, or contradict Islamic law,” and so they’ll soon be falling into line with Western media outlets. “Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living things,” Agence France-Presse, October 14, 2024: Afghanistan’s Taliban morality ministry pledged on Monday to implement a […]
Taliban calls on UN and others who criticized morality law to ‘refrain from criticisms that insult Islamic values’
As we reported here, the new law mandates that women cover their faces, not speak loudly in public, not sing, and more. And now the Taliban are cannily demonstrating that they know how the game is played by suggesting that any criticism of these inhuman provisions would be “Islamophobic.” “Taliban Rejects UN Criticism Of Morality […]
Afghanistan bans mixed martial arts, ‘it has many aspects which are contradictory to the teachings of Islam’
It’s a pity that the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice doesn’t seem to have elaborated on what exactly makes MMA un-Islamic. In any case, activities that may distract one from jihad are often forbidden, as we see with the prohibition on music. “Afghanistan bans MMA, finds many aspects ‘contradictory […]
Afghanistan: Religious police to scour wedding halls to enforce ban on music, it’s un-Islamic
The Taliban has been seeking out weddings to find any of them playing music or celebrating in any manner that contradicts Islam. Music, except nasheeds, a cappella exhortations to jihad, are all haram in Islam. To give an idea of how seriously these rules are taken by those who strictly adhere to the Sharia in […]
Afghanistan: Taliban orders mannequins beheaded after head of Virtue and Vice ministry rules they are ‘idols’
The Daily Mail, positively the worst publication in the Western world, ascribes this to the Taliban’s strict interpretation of Islam.” However, once the mannequins are declared idols, there is no interpretation of Islam that would render them acceptable. The only difference here between the Taliban and other Muslim groups is that some of the others […]
Afghanistan: Taliban forbid drivers to play music in cars
Whenever I note that Islamic law forbids music (aside from nasheeds, a cappella songs encouraging jihad), I am excoriated as a greasy Islamophobe, but it’s nonetheless true: Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance.” (The Hadith Qudsi, or […]