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Taliban 2.0 different? Not really, we say
Updated On: 24 December, 2022 08:05 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
As Taliban shuts university education to women, Muslim world should take notice as to what happens when we empower religious orthodoxies, says Indian Muslim body
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Afghan women protest the ban on university education for women, in Kabul on Thursday. An activist said some were arrested. Pic/AFP
The Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD), a self-explanatory, pan-India outfit with Mumbai convenors Javed Anand and Feroze Mithiborwala at the helm, issued a press statement unequivocally condemning the decree of the Taliban effectively banning women’s education in Afghanistan recently. The IMSD statement is signed by prominent human rights activists, teachers, lawyers and filmmakers across the country.
The statement said, “Since the Taliban have taken over in 2021, girls haven’t been able to access schools. Although they promised to open girls’ schools from March 23; the same day they revoked the order. This December 20, they barred women from universities. The IMSD would like to remind the international community that the Taliban, during negotiations in Doha, had promised not to rollback whatever little gains Afghan women had made in terms of education. Those who were spinning the narrative that the Taliban 2.0 was different from its earlier version now need to explain their continued support to this fanatic group. Those in the Indian Muslim community who were celebrating the Taliban takeover need to ask themselves whether this is the future they envision for half the Ummah. This is the time when the Muslim world should sit up and take notice as to what happens when we empower religious orthodoxies.”
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