North America: 200+ Imams Ask Taliban to End Ban on Education for Girls and Women

Source: Sound Vision Foundation, via Religion News Service, January 12, 2023

More than 200 imams, Islamic scholars, and leaders across the United States and Canada are calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban to end its ban on girls’ and women’s education in the country.

Months after banning education for girls in high school, in December, the group announced an indefinite ban on girls’ and women’s attendance at universities.

The move has elicited outrage across the world, with Muslims, both scholars and laypersons, condemning the ban and calling on the Taliban to rescind it.

“Education is both a right and a duty for all Muslims, women and men,” said Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, an imam in Chicago and former Chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, the largest interfaith organization in the world. “The Taliban cannot claim to be following the teachings of Islam while violating a core tenet and requirement of the faith.”

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