Khaama: In a concerning move, the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education has issued a directive to private universities in Afghanistan to purge their libraries of non-Hanafi Islamic texts, including Shia and other minority religious books. This mandate represents an intensification of the Taliban’s effort to enforce a singular Sunni Hanafi Islamic perspective across educational institutions. The order not only demands the removal of these books but also their replacement with texts focused on the Prophet Muhammad’s biographies, underscoring the regime’s rigid interpretation of Islamic teachings. Click here to read more (external link).
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