Digital Desk : In a new decree ordered by the Taliban, shop owners in western Afghanistan have been directed to cut off the heads of mannequins, insisting the human figures violate Islamic law.
A video clip that has gone viral on social media, shows men sawing the plastic heads off women figures kept in shops.
“We have ordered the shopkeepers to cut the heads off mannequins as this is against (Islamic) Sharia law,” Aziz Rahman, head of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the city of Herat, said on Wednesday.
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On being insisted by some shopkeepers if they can cover the heads by plastic bags or headcovers instead of sawing off, the Taliba responded, "If they just cover the head or hide the entire mannequin, the angel of Allah will not enter their shop or house and bless them."
Till now, the hardline Islamist group of Afghanistan ha issued no national law on the beheading of the mannequins as such.
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The Taliban have been interpreting and enforcing decree under the Islamic Law, in a rather de-humanising manner, calling attention from global humanitarian bodies and countries.
The Taliban triggered global outrage way back in the 1990s when they blew up two Buddha statues, calling their presence as anti-Sharia.
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