Taliban order Afghan shopkeepers to behead mannequins for being ‘un-Islamic’
India Today
The Taliban have instructed business owners in Afghanistan to remove the heads from mannequins in their stores, as they violate Islamic law.
Since seizing power in Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban have issued diktats curtailing the freedoms of women -- from making hijabs mandatory in public to barring adolescent girls from going to school. Now, the Taliban government has dealt a rather bizarre order instructing business owners to remove the heads from mannequins in their stores. VIDEO: Taliban order Afghan shop owners to behead shop mannequins.The Taliban have ordered shop owners in western Afghanistan to cut the heads off mannequins, insisting figures representing the human form violate Islamic law pic.twitter.com/id2gIF3Jfk
The reason behind the move? According to the country's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, figures representing the human form violate Islamic law.
