Check this out…now does Islam allow this kind of discrimination?
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/05/22/afghanistan.hindu.02/index.html
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) –
The ruling Taleban leadership in
Afghanistan announced plans on
Tuesday to force Hindus to wear
identity labels on their clothing to
differentiate them from Muslims.
A Taleban spokesman said the order
was issued to safeguard the rights of
Hindus so that they are not accosted
by the religious police who ensure that
Afghans adhere to Muslim rules.
News of the edict prompted an angry
retort from Hindu India.
“We absolutely deplore such orders
which patently discriminate against
minorities,” Press Trust of India quoted an unnamed Indian foreign ministry
official as saying. “It is further evidence of the backward and unacceptable
ideological underpinning of the Taleban.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kandahar said
that Mullah Omar, supreme leader of the Taleban
government, had yet to approve the order, and it
was unclear if it was in fact in effect.
Hindus wary of edict
Journalist Kamal Hyder told CNN that Hindus he
had spoken with said they “do not feel discriminated against.”
“Most of these Hindus … told us that they do not see discrimination in their
day-to-day life,” he said. “They were of course apprehensive about any edict
regarding dress code.”
Under the edict, Hindu women would be required to veil themselves, as Muslim
women do, but Hindus in Kandahar told Hyder that most of the women there do
so already “in order to blend in.”
“These people have been here for hundreds of years, and most of them were
not having any difficulties here,” Hyder said.
Hindus said they had heard radio reports about the edict but had not received
any information from the Ministry of Virtue and Wisdom about the new rules.
Anar, an Afghan Hindu in Kabul who uses just one name, told The Associated
Press he does not want to wear a label identifying him as Hindu.
“It will make us vulnerable and degrade our position in the society,” he said.
Campaign against ‘un-Islamic’ segments
The Taleban, who control 95 percent of Afghanistan, have launched a campaign
to crack down on “un-Islamic” segments of their society.
As part of that campaign, the Taleban earlier ordered all Buddhist statutes in the
country destroyed, including two ancient stone statues of Buddha carved into a
cliff in central Bamiyan.
There are 67 Hindu temples in Kandahar, but only one is functional, local
officials have said.
There is no accurate count of how many Hindus live in Afghanistan but they are
thought to number in the thousands.
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