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OIC urges Taliban to revisit ban on Afghan women working with UN

8th April, 2023 · admin

Ariana: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to revisit the “unacceptable” decision to ban women from working with the United Nations. “The new edict will intensify the successive restrictive measures imposed on women and girls, including banning them from education, government jobs, and from working for

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Human Rights, Muslims and Islam, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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OIC to send team of scholars to Afghanistan

17th March, 2023 · admin

Ariana: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said on Thursday it will send a team of scholars to Afghanistan for dialogue on aspects related to Islam’s position on women’s education and work. “The OIC will continue its efforts and dialogue with the concerned authorities in Afghanistan and, in coordination with the International Islamic Fiqh Academy

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Muslims and Islam |
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Why Indian Deobandis Are Quiet on Women Education Ban?

18th February, 2023 · admin

8am: The school of thought of the institute is known as Deobandi Islam, and the Taliban are followers of this ideology. After the partition of India, many noted scholars of this institute moved to newly created Pakistan and set up seminaries, or madrassas, teaching an austere version of Islam, particularly along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border. Click

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Posted in Afghan Women, Muslims and Islam, Taliban |
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Taliban Ban Shia-Sunni Marriages in Badakhshan’s Nusay District

3rd February, 2023 · admin

8am: In the announcement issued by the Taliban-appointed district governor in Nusay district of Badakhshan province, it is stated: “Regarding religious and ideological considerations, all ethnic groups in the territory of this district are instructed that from now on, no one from Sunni followers will be allowed to give a daughter to a Shia follower,

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Posted in Muslims and Islam, Society, Taliban | Tags: Badakhshan, Life under Taliban rule, Sectarian issues in Afghanistan, Shiites, Taliban war on shiites |
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Protests Held Across Afghanistan Over Desecration of Holy Quran in Europe

27th January, 2023 · admin

Tolo News: Thousands of people across the country have held protests after the burning and tearing of the Quran in Sweden and the Netherlands, respectively. Earlier, Rasmus Paludan, who leads the Danish far-right political party Hard Line burned a copy of the Holy Quran in front of Turkey’s embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. After these incidents,

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Posted in EU-Afghanistan Relations, Islamophobia News, Muslims and Islam | Tags: Protest |
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Ban on University Education Contradicts Islamic Teachings, Says Iranian FM

24th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that the ban imposed by the Taliban on university education for women contradicts Islamic teachings. The Foreign Affairs Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran expressed this issue on Tuesday, at the meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Council of foreign ministers. Click here to read more

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, Muslims and Islam | Tags: Taliban War on Muslims, Taliban war on women |
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Erdogan calls Taliban ban on women’s education ‘un-Islamic’

12th January, 2023 · admin

Middle East Eye: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced the Taliban’s order to ban university and primary education for Afghanistan’s women as “unIslamic”, promising to follow the issue until it is resolved in a televised speech on Wednesday.  “It is inhumane and un-Islamic,” Erdogan said while addressing an international conference on ombudsmanship in Ankara.

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Muslims and Islam, Taliban, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban war on women |
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OIC Islamic Grouping ‘Emergency Meeting’ Eyes Afghan Rights Situation, New Taliban Bans On Women

11th January, 2023 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 11, 2023 The intergovernmental Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) executive committee is gathering for an emergency meeting in the Saudi port city of Jeddah to discuss recent developments in Afghanistan and the humanitarian situation there under the Taliban-led government. The OIC, which aims on behalf of its 57 members to be

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Muslims and Islam, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Afghanistan: Woman protests Taliban’s education ban with single word of God

30th December, 2022 · admin

BBC News: Angered at the prospect of seeing her future disappear, the woman (whose name we have changed for her safety) staged an extraordinary solo protest in front of Kabul University, invoking words from the Quran. On Sunday 25 December, Adela stood in front of the entrance holding up a board with a particularly powerful

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Muslims and Islam, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Protest, Taliban war on women |
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Al-Azhar Imam: Ban on Women’s Education Contradicts Sharia

23rd December, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb on Thursday said that he “deeply” regrets the decision issued by the authorities in Afghanistan, preventing Afghan women’s access to university education and adding that it contradicts Islamic Sharia and conflicts with its explicit call for men and women to pursue knowledge from the cradle to

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Muslims and Islam, Taliban |
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