Fear and paranoia prevail in Afghanistan over Taliban insurgency representation of man.
The order follows a series of measures imposed by the Taliban in the implementation of their own extreme version of Islam, measures that restrict the freedoms, mainly of women and girls.
“We asked the traders to cut off the dolls’ heads because they violate sharia law,” said Aziz Rahman, head of the Virtue Promotion and Prevention Service in Herat, the country’s third-largest city of 600,000.
“If they are content to cover their heads or cover (the whole) doll, the angel of Allah will not enter their shop and their house to bless them,” he said, adding that the shopkeepers had promised to obey.
A video showing men beheading plastic dolls with a saw has been circulating on social media since yesterday.
During the first period of their rule in Afghanistan in the 1990s, the Taliban shocked the world with the destruction of two giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan.
Although they say they intend to appear “more moderate” after their return in order to gain international recognition and a resumption of international humanitarian aid, the Taliban have imposed a number of restrictions, mainly on women and girls. They have announced that women who want to travel long distances should be accompanied by a man from their immediate family and have called on taxi drivers not to accept in their cars women who do not wear Islamic headscarves.
The Taliban are also conducting checks and seizures of alcoholic beverages and have banned music.
The mannequins are beheaded after the Taliban ordered stores to not have mannequins with head in their shops.
pic.twitter.com/MKedkAsyZx– Tajuden Soroush (@TajudenSoroush) January 3, 2022
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