Extremist Religious Scholars Promote Violence Against Women In Afghanistan

Afghanistan Human Rights organization in its recent investigative report said that a number of extremist religious scholars contrary to Islam announce and advertise violence against women.

According to the report, religious scholars are the strongest and influential references for the people. Most of these extremist scholars are funded by the neighboring countries.

In the report, scholars divided into two categories, moderate scholars and extremist scholars.

Moderate scholars are those who teach people religious lessons and extremist scholars are those who advertise issues with a kind of ideological extremism.

Khoda Dad Besharat, executive director of the human rights and democracy to Afghanistan said, “Extremist leaders are said to believe, women cannot be present even in public places because men are stimulated.”

The investigative report indicates that most of these extremist leaders are working according to neighboring countries plans and advertise violence against women.

Serious proposal that will suggest following the publication of this report is that monitoring programs should be launched from the scholar’s activities by the government.

“Monitoring on mosques should be further, especially those scholars who support from outside.” Besharat added.

The report also concern about the mosques and schools that are not registered and said that most of the mosques are not controlled by government.

However, the ministry of Hajj and religious affairs rejected this report.

Aiulhaq Abed, deputy minister of Hajj and religious affairs ministry said, “We reject this report. Islam is a peace religion. Our scholars are always encourage people to peace and reconciliation not violence.”

This comes as earlier reports published about the suspicious Activities of some of religious schools in Afghanistan which authorities had promised cooperation regarding the issue.

Reported by Farahnaz Furotan