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The Taliban have settled in as rulers of Afghanistan, three years after they seized power in 2021.
Even if they have strengthened domestic security and kept a faltering economy afloat, their numerous prohibitions on Afghan women and girls continue to make headlines.
In the latest increase in limitations, Afghan women are now forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister.
The latest ban
Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban’s minister for virtue, has said it was forbidden for adult women to allow their voices to be heard, according to The Associated Press.
During an event in eastern Logar province on Sunday, Vice and Virtue Minister Khalid Hanafi said: “It is prohibited for a grown woman to recite Quranic verses or perform recitations in front of another grown woman. Even chants of takbir (Allahu Akbar) are not permitted.”
He said that uttering similar expressions like ‘Subhanallah’, another word central to the Islamic faith, was also not allowed. A woman was not permitted to perform the call to prayer, he told the gathering. “So, there is certainly no permission for singing.”
According to the minister, a woman’s voice is awrah, which means it needs to be covered and should not be heard in public, not even by other women.
The Taliban have settled in as rulers of Afghanistan, three years after they seized power in 2021.
Even if they have strengthened domestic security and kept a faltering economy afloat, their numerous prohibitions on Afghan women and girls continue to make headlines.
In the latest increase in limitations, Afghan women are now forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister.
The latest ban
Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban’s minister for virtue, has said it was forbidden for adult women to allow their voices to be heard, according to The Associated Press.
During an event in eastern Logar province on Sunday, Vice and Virtue Minister Khalid Hanafi said: “It is prohibited for a grown woman to recite Quranic verses or perform recitations in front of another grown woman. Even chants of takbir (Allahu Akbar) are not permitted.”
He said that uttering similar expressions like ‘Subhanallah’, another word central to the Islamic faith, was also not allowed. A woman was not permitted to perform the call to prayer, he told the gathering. “So, there is certainly no permission for singing.”
According to the minister, a woman’s voice is awrah, which means it needs to be covered and should not be heard in public, not even by other women.
