The supreme chief of the Taliban, Haibatullah Akhundzada, orders the judges a “strict” application of the Islamic law, while the exclusion of women in public space worsens.
by Jacques Follorou
The illusion will have long. Since their return to power, on August 15, 2021, the Afghan Taliban saw that they had nothing to do with the medieval and brutal Islamists they were when they directed the country between 1996 and 2001. Without having lost his Soul, Taliban theocracy would be said, they said, who became responsible and capable of composing with the interests of the country and the population. Sunday, November 13, the supreme chief of the Taliban, the Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, showed that it was not, while the exclusion of women from public space is worsening.
In a tweet published on Sunday evening, the regime spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that Mullah Akhundzada had ordered the judges of the whole country “the strict application of Sharia law [Islamic law]”. It is not a simple recommendation emanating from a religious authority, but “a compulsory order” having the force of law. It imposes itself on the whole of Taliban governance. At the rank of the sanctions provided for by Sharia law are, in particular, the public executions, the stones or the amputation of the members.
The Taliban chief said, according to the spokesperson: “Carefully examine the files of thieves, kidnappers and seditious (…). For these files under which all the conditions of Sharia (…) were met , you must apply all the planned sanctions. “The interpretation of Sharia law by the Taliban leads to sanction by body punishments the crimes considered to be the most serious: adultery or false denunciation, alcohol consumption, alcohol, alcohol consumption, alcohol consumption, alcohol consumption, alcohol consumption, Theft, banditry, apostasy or rebellion.
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If the images of flogging in the street of men or women have already been published since the return of the Taliban, these practices do not yet seem to have been in the whole territory. According to a UN executive in Kabul, the method of administration of justice can still vary from one province to another, according to the local ethnic group, the Taliban establishment or the will of the authorities of Do not put themselves on the back a reluctant population in their practice of Islam. Likewise, mullahs can be present in the police stations from the investigation stage, as in Kabul, in order to guide decisions according to the only sharia.
The Taliban regime is therefore going back to the ultra-rigorist application of Islam, which had marked its first transition to power and had it banned from the international community. Wanting to escape the same fate, its leaders had multiplied, since the fall of 2021, the reassuring declarations. They have since shattered. In March, the same day of return to the school of girls over 12 years old, promised by Afghan Islamists, religious leaders, including Mullah Akhundzada, ordered the government to turn around.
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