Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.
The guidance, issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also called on all vehicle owners to offer rides only to those women wearing Islamic hijabs. Ministry spokesman Sadeq Akif Muhajir told AFP on Sunday:
Women travelling for more than 45 miles (72 kilometres) should not be offered a ride if they are not accompanied by a close family member.
The guidance comes weeks after the ministry asked Afghanistan’s television channels to stop showing dramas and soap operas featuring women actors.
The ministry had also called on women TV journalists to wear hijabs while presenting.
Muhajir said Sunday that the hijab would also be required for women seeking transport. The ministry’s directive also asked people to stop playing music in their vehicles.
The Taliban’s interpretation of the hijab — which can range from a hair covering to a face veil or full-body covering — is unclear, and the majority of Afghan women already wear headscarves.
Since taking power in August, the Taliban have imposed various restrictions on women and girls, despite pledging a softer rule compared with their first stint in power in the 1990s.
In several provinces, local Taliban authorities have been persuaded to reopen schools — but many girls still remain cut off from secondary education.
Early this month, the Islamist group issued a decree in the name of their supreme leader instructing the government to enforce women’s rights.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Development Programme in a new report said the Taliban’s move to restrict women from working could immediately cost the Afghan economy up to $1 billion, or 5% of GDP.
The UN report painted a grim picture of Afghanistan’s economy which is under strain with soaring inflation and an ongoing cash crunch.
Women account for 20% of the country’s workforce and preventing them from working could deduct half a billion dollars alone from household consumption.
Although males and females are equal in relationship to Christ, the Scriptures give specific roles to each in marriage. The husband is to assume leadership in the home (1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:23). This leadership should not be dictatorial, condescending, or patronizing to the wife, but should be in accordance with the example of Christ leading the church. "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word" (Ephesians 5:25-26). Christ loved the church (His people) with compassion, mercy, forgiveness, respect, and selflessness. In this same way husbands are to love their wives.
Wives are to submit to the authority of their husbands. "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything" (Ephesians 5:22-24). Although women should submit to their husbands, the Bible also tells men several times how they are supposed to treat their wives. The husband is not to take on the role of the dictator, but should show respect for his wife and her opinions. In fact, Ephesians 5:28-29 exhorts men to love their wives in the same way that they love their own bodies, feeding and caring for them. A man's love for his wife should be the same as Christ's love for His body, the church.
"Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them" (Colossians 3:18-19). "Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers" (1 Peter 3:7). From these verses we see that love and respect characterize the roles of both husbands and wives. If these are present, then authority, headship, love, and submission will be no problem for either partner.
Now please stop this nonsensical argument
Young man, relax your heart. God is a being of order. He created everything to a specific system that he saw as appropriate.A woman goes under a man because that's the order God sees it fit. Iwe zvako zvekuzoti mukadzi haagoni this and that is your stupid mind.
Akambokuudza kuti a woman can't do something ndiani? In the book of Judges, there was also a woman who led Israel. I'm just pointing out kuti a woman goes under a man because that's the role God saw it appropriate to, that's where he gave the woman abilities in. There's stuff only women can do and stuff only men can do because GOD ordained it to.
If you don't have anything chekutaura, please shut up and read another news
Wangu @T1 nyarara kana usinga gone ku interpreter bible. Women submit STOP. The same bible yauri ktaura nezvayo haisiyo inorambira vakadzi kumira pamberi pevarume hr??????