Taliban government, 1996

Date
1996
Name of Author
Taliban government
Body

“Women should not step outside your residence. If women are going outside with fashionable, ornamental, tight and charming clothes to show themselves, they will be cursed by the Islamic Sharia and should never expect to go to heaven.”Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower (New York: Vintage Books, 2006), 261.

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