Thread by @hasibmn

"covered head-to-toe in accordance w strict new dress policies for education"

This is in fact not true
They wore it of their own agency

Afg gov already has announced they will not mandate women to cover their faces or wear anything in addition to hijab that is already normative

https://twitter.com/JamesEdgar/status/1436664885656662021

When media publish slanted pieces of not even verifying facts like this, it makes it incredibly difficult to have integrity.

Is women's rights are afforded to everyone except for women who wear hijab and niqab?

If a woman is free to wear whatever hijab she would like people also should have tolerance in their perception of these women's choices and not be bigoted.

IEA gov already has announced they are not mandating women cover their faces. People seem to not care about facts.

Islam does not dictate that all women dress this way, and forcing women to do so isnt what wearing hijab entails

A number of female Afg professors said theyve taught women or have family who chose to dress this way That is their choice

Regardless of it being Afg culture or not

The issue of a shariah defined understanding of hijab mandating this type of dress is a conversation to have among scholarly.

Why is this deemed the most appropriate from a shariah perspective by some?

Why only the color black which is foreign to Afg culture?

We must differentiate between the very real and bigoted anti Islamic sentiment we see on display (and yes unfortunately coming from even Afghan women!) and the discussion of what the gov policies are regarding women's education etc.

People engaged in doctoring images & cutting them to intentionally to exclude the women who were there not even wearing niqab and had normative hijab on, is incredibly shameful and loses integrity.

When Afg diaspora made dehumanizing comments about women that dress like this like:
horror movie
ninjas
repressed women
not Afghan
go back to whichever Arab country you came from
etc

This shows more the normalized anti Islamic sentiments than "fighting for women's rights"

When journalists dont actually report the facts, it harms in actually educating ppl

"This time around, Taliban officials have not decreed the burqa as mandatory — only hijab, or modest Islamic dress including a head covering and non-revealing clothing."

latimes.com/world-nation/s…