A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden.

Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They “promised” it to provide plausible deniability and to reduce widespread outrage that could trigger a state to intervene with the process. Everyone knew they were going to ramp up the misogyny sooner or later.