A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden.

Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home.

  • @scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16•1 year ago

    These guys are constantly telegraphing to the world that they are rabid, crazy sex perverts who cannot be controlled (so therefore all temptation must be removed). I wonder if they realize how much they are telling everyone about themselves and their dirty, dirty little minds.