New Delhi: Afghan women around the world protest the new Taliban dictated hijab in schools by posting photos of themselves wearing a traditional colorful dress on social media, CNN reported.
The Taliban has mandated gender segregation in the classroom and said that female students, lecturers and employees must wear headscarves in accordance with group interpretations of sharia law.
Photos have emerged from a group of female students wearing a head-to-toe black robe and waving a Taliban flag in a government-run university lecture hall in Kabul.
Another Afghan woman responded by posting photos of themselves in a bright and colorful traditional Afghan dress – very contrasting with the mandate of the black headscarf described by the Taliban.
Bahar Jalali, a former faculty member from American Afghan University according to his LinkedIn profile, helped start a campaign post image, according to another woman who shared photos on Twitter., CNN reported.
Jalali tweeted a picture of a woman in a black dress and a full veil and said: “There are no women who have dressed like this in the history of Afghanistan.
It’s really stranger and aliens for Afghan culture.
I posted my photo in a traditional Afghan dress to inform , Educating, and eliminating the wrong information spread by the Taliban.
“Another Afghan woman immediately followed her lead on social media, added the report.
Waslat Hashat-Nazimi, Afghan Service Head in DW News, Tweeting Himself in a traditional Afghan dress and headdress with comments: “This is Afghanistan culture and this is how Afghan women dressed.” Sykiba Teimori, an Afghanistan singer and activist who escaped Kabul last month, told CNN that “Hijab is before Kabul falls.
We can see the hijabi, but this is based on family decisions and not the government.” He said before the Taliban came to Afghanistan, his ancestor “wearing the same colorful afghanistan dresses that you see in my photos”.