Afghan women protest Taliban's hijab diktat by sharing photos in colourful dress

Afghan women around the world are protesting the Talibans new hijab diktat in schools by posting photos of themselves wearing colorful traditional dresses on social media CNN reportedThe Taliban have mandated the segregation of genders in classrooms and said that female students lecturers and employees must wear hijabs in accordance with the groups interpretation of Sharia lawPhotos have emerged of a group of female students wearing headtotoe black robes and waving Taliban flags in the lecture hall of a governmentrun university in KabulAfghan women organised a seminar at Kabul University to express their support for Hijab segregated education and the new Taliban government in AfghanistanAfghanWomen pictwittercomSJ7gIijQL8mdash Zahid Akhtar ZahidDOAM September 11 2021They are all women Wearing burqa does not make women less of a human There is nothing wrong if a woman willingly choose to dress like that Majority of Afghan women wear hijab BUT their hijabs do not look like this These women do not represent Afghanwomen and culture httpstcokLD3Di5Ctbmdash Neela Hassan HassanNeela September 12 2021No woman has ever dressed like this in the history of Afghanistan This is utterly foreign and alien to Afghan culture I posted my pic in the traditional Afghan dress to inform educate and dispel the misinformation that is being propagated by Taliban httpstcojrp772jIKumdash Dr Bahar Jalali RoxanaBahar1 September 12 2021Other Afghan women responded by posting pictures of themselves in bright and colorful traditional Afghan dresses a stark contrast to the black hijab mandate outlined by the TalibanI wear my traditional Afghan dress proudlyIts colourful and beautifulNot at all like the images you saw circulating yesterdayThank you RoxanaBahar1 whos encouraging us AfghanWomen to share the beauty of AfghanistanCulture pictwittercomOAyNhku78lmdash Tahmina Aziz tahmina_aziz September 12 2021Afghan women cultural campaign traditional dressAfghanistanCulture pictwittercomQey9mdzVDTmdash Mustafa Kamal Kakar MustafaKamalMKK September 12 2021Bahar Jalali a former faculty member of the American University of Afghanistan according to her LinkedIn profile helped kick off the picture posting campaign according to other women who shared photos on Twitter CNN reportedThis is Afghan culture I am wearing a traditional Afghan dress AfghanistanCulture pictwittercomDrRzgyXPvmmdash Dr Bahar Jalali RoxanaBahar1 September 12 2021Jalali tweeted a picture of a woman in a full black dress and veil and said No woman has ever dressed like this in the history of Afghanistan This is utterly foreign and alien to Afghan culture I posted my pic in the traditional Afghan dress to inform educate and dispel the misinformation that is being propagated by TalibanOther Afghan women soon followed her lead on social media the report addedAfghan women have started online campaign to protest Talibans dress code They post their photos with their traditional clothes and use DoNotTouchMyClothes AfghanistanCulture and AfghanWomen tags pictwittercom75EY5EYOMKmdash sibghat ullah sibghat51539988 September 12 2021Waslat HasratNazimi head of the Afghan service at DW News tweeted a picture of herself in traditional Afghan dress and headdress with the comment This is Afghan culture and this is how Afghan women dressShekiba Teimori an Afghan singer and activist who fled Kabul last month told CNN that the hijab existed before Kabuls fall We could see Hijabi women but this was based on family decisions and not the governmentShe said before the Taliban came to Afghanistan her ancestors were wearing the same colorful Afghan dresses you see in my picturesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliabilitsy and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever