Women's Manifesto

طالبان‎, 1994

GAIN AN EDUCATION.

HAVE EMPLOYMENT.

LEAVE HOME WITHOUT PERMISSION OF FATHER OR HUSBAND.

WALK OUTSIDE WITHOUT BEING ACCOMPANIED BY A MALE FAMILY MEMBER.

WEAR WESTERN CLOTHES.

WEAR MENS CLOTHES.

"And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons, or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex, and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O you Believers, turn you all together towards Allah, that you may attain Bliss". (Qur'an 24:31).

WEAR PERFUME.

LAUGH IN PUBLIC.

HAVE THEIR PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN.

PAINT THEIR NAILS.

WEAR SHOES WITH 'CLICKING' HEELS.

TALK TO MALES UNLESS THEY ARE RELATIVES, INCLUDING IN THEIR OWN HOMES.

GATHER AT ANY OUTSIDE EVENT.

WASH CLOTHES IN RIVERS.

RIDE IN TAXIS.

RIDE BICYCLES.

USE PUBLIC BATHS.

APPEAR ON THE BALCONY OF THEIR OWN HOME, EVEN IN FULL BURQA.

BE SEEN AT THE WINDOWS OF THEIR OWN HOME, EVEN IN FULL BURQA.

DENY THEIR HUSBANDS SEXUAL GRATIFICATION AT ANY TIME.

INDULGE IN SEXUAL PRACTICES IF UNMARRIED OR WITH ANYONE WHO IS NOT THEIR HUSBAND IF THEY ARE MARRIED.

ATTEMPT SUICIDE.