Print Essay: A Silenced Generation
No Afghan woman had the right to be transported in the same car as a foreigner or attend a public event, and all women were eventually banned from general hospitals. They were not allowed out of their homes unless they had a male blood relative escort, and the windows of homes were to be blackened so that women inside would not be seen. To the Taliban, anyone questioning these edicts, which have no validity in the Koran, was questioning Islam itself, and expressing “human weakness and lack of piety,”* even though the Prophet Mohammed's first task was to emancipate women.
(Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban; Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. p. 107)
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Woman in Burkha with Child
Image attained from RAWA online.