‘Inclusive’ Taliban: Women Must Cover Faces, Should Leave Home as Little as Possible

Breitbart.com reports: “The Taliban terrorist group’s ‘Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ issued an edict this weekend declaring that women and girls should leave their homes as little as possible and that women should wear ‘hijab,’ which it defined as including face coverings, at all times.

The decree, issued directly from Supreme Leader Mullah Haibutullah Akhundzada, also declared that the burqa — an all-body covering that covers even a woman’s eyes — was the ideal garment for women, though it stopped short of mandating that women cover their eyes. During the Taliban’s first term in power in the 1990s, the Sunni jihadists forced all women to wear burqa in public.

The decree prompted international outrage from groups such as the United Nations, which had expressed hope when the Taliban returned to power in August that it would not reinstate the repressive rules it once had. Taliban spokesmen had enthusiastically promoted this optimistic view by repeatedly promising it would create an ‘inclusive’ government that adhered to international human rights standards…”

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