Taliban posters depict women without hijab as "trying to look like animals."
In Kandahar, the Taliban have posted signs saying that Muslim women who don't wear the hijab are 'trying to look like animals.' The religious police of the Taliban put up the posters.
The Taliban, who took control from a Western-backed government in August of last year, are showing indications of returning to its extreme Islamic rule.
Women's rights in Afghanistan have improved somewhat in the two decades after 9/11. However, under the Taliban government, these little advances are being pulled back.
Hibatullah Akhundzada, the country's supreme commander and Taliban head, signed a proclamation in May stating that women should generally stay at home.
If they had to go out in public, they were told to cover themselves entirely, including their faces.
The Taliban's dreaded Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which enforces the group's rigid interpretation of Islam, put up posters depicting burqas, a form of garment that covers a woman's whole body from head to toe, around Kandahar city this week.
The posters, which have been plastered on several cafés and stores as well as advertising hoardings around Kandahar — the Taliban's de facto power centre — declare that "Muslim women who do not wear the hijab are trying to look like animals".
According to the posters, wearing short, tight, and revealing clothing was also against Akhundzada's rule.
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