Afghanistan: Taliban bans from universities dozens of books written by women
Sep 20, 2025 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams
The war on women is encoded in the Sharia, which regards women as inferior. So the shabby treatment of women doesn’t stop with the “radical” Taliban. It is endemic in mainstream Islam. The guardianship program is still practiced in Saudi Arabia, where a woman was jailed for 11 years for online expression supporting women’s rights.
“Your women are a field for you, so go to your field as you will…” — Qur’an 2:223
“Allah gives you a responsibility concerning your children, to the male the equivalent of the portion of two females…” — Qur’an 4:11
“I looked into Paradise and I saw that the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I saw that the majority of its people are women.” — Sahih Bukhari 3241; Sahih Muslim 2737
“If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning.” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460
The face that Saudi Arabia presents to the Western world doesn’t quite look the same as what Saudi women who seek equal treatment see. And Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that ‘Turkey has nothing that contradicts their beliefs’” with reference to the Taliban.
Aside from the trampling of women’s rights in Islam, the article below also reveals the abusive sectarianism that characterizes the religion as well. The Taliban also banned books by Iranian authors and publishers, while Iran has been indiscriminately driving out Afghans from their country by the hundreds of thousands. This is the Sunni/Shi’ite divide in action. ...
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/09/afghanis ... n-by-women
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