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Taliban in Afghanistan remove anti-Islamic books to prevent ‘immorality’ among youth

  • February 23, 2023
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This Thursday, the Taliban ordered the seizure of all those books that are contrary to Islam and the alleged interests of Afghanistan, including those that promote, for example,

Taliban in Afghanistan remove anti-Islamic books to prevent ‘immorality’ among youth

This Thursday, the Taliban ordered the seizure of all those books that are contrary to Islam and the alleged interests of Afghanistan, including those that promote, for example, secularism or “immorality” among young people.

“There are still hundreds of books on the market written against Islamagainst the principles of Islam or those that promote other ideologies such as secularism,” said Abdulhak Hemad, director of the Taliban Ministry of Information and Culture.

“There are also some books that lead to immorality young people,” Hemad said and thanked the publishers for the fact that the publishers have already delivered thousands of these books with content allegedly harmful to the Afghan people.

For its part, the Union of Publishers and Booksellers Afghanistan joined the wave of censorship imposed by the Taliban and warned that they would take all necessary measures to prevent the distribution of this type of content and thereby increase unnecessary tension in the country.

“If books are published that increase national tensions, political problems and contradictions that lead the nation into crisis, we will try not to publish them again,” said the director of this organization, Syed Ahmad Said.

With the arrival of the Taliban in Kabul in 2021, the meager progress in terms of security came to an end. rights and freedoms what Afghan civil society has achieved over the past two decades. The hardest hit group was women who were subjected to the same restrictions as in the 1990s before the US invasion.

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Source: Aristegui Noticias

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