Fundamentalism by Ruthven Malise;

Author:Ruthven, Malise;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Published: 2004-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

(Maulvi Jalilullah Maulvizada, interviewed by Ahmed Rashid, June 1997)

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When the ultra-conservative Taliban took over in 1996, after several years of civil strife and tribal conflict that followed the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, Afghanistan’s gender war reached its nadir. Within three months of the capture of Kabul, the Taliban closed 63 schools in the Afghan capital, depriving more than 100,000 girls of education, along with 150,000 boys. They shut down Kabul University, sending home 10,000 students, of whom 4,000 were women. Female employees were stripped of their jobs, creating chaos in public health and social services. As many as 150,000 women may have been affected by the prohibitions on women’s employment, including teachers, doctors, nurses, and civil servants. Sophisticated, educated urban women were forced to wear the burqa: decrees passed by the Taliban even banned the Iranian-style headscarf, or chador, as an unacceptable foreign fashion import.

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