New Delhi: In a recent order, the Taliban has asked the shop owners in Western Afghanistan to cut off the heads of mannequins as such human figures violate Islamic Law.
Notably, a video of couple of men sawing the plastic heads off women figures went viral on social media.
According to the Taliban, the heads of these effigies are being beheaded because they were 'violating' the rules made by Islam.
In the war-torn country's western province of Afghanistan, shopkeepers were told to cut off the heads of their effigies, as they were 'statues'.
Reportedly, the decree was issued this week by the Ministry for the 'Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice' in Herat. Initially, the ministry had ordered shops to completely remove the mannequins. But the shopkeepers complained that even the small business they had left with it would be destroyed.
"We have ordered the shopkeepers to cut the heads off mannequins as this is against (Islamic) Sharia law," AFP quoted Aziz Rahman, head of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the city of Herat as saying.
"If they just cover the head or hide the entire mannequin, the angel of Allah will not enter their shop or house and bless them," he added
After hearing the complaints, the head of the ministry, Sheikh Aziz-u-Rahman, said that the heads of the effigies should be beheaded.
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