Hindus living in Afghanistan will be required to wear labels so they can be easily identified, the country's Taliban rulers have decreed. Additionally, Hindu women will have to start veiling themselves in public in accordance with Islamic law. The policy, which has uncomfortable echoes to the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David, was angrily condemned by the world's largest Hindu state, India. Nor is it likely to go down too well in the rest of the Muslim world, where the Taliban is widely considered to be something of a loose cannon on the deck.
Marked, But for What?
Hindus living in Afghanistan will be required to wear labels so they can be easily identified, the country's Taliban rulers have decreed. Additionally, Hindu women will have to start veiling themselves in public in accordance with Islamic law. The policy, which has uncomfortable echoes to the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David, was angrily condemned by the world's largest Hindu state, India. Nor is it likely to go down too well in the rest of the Muslim world, where the Taliban is widely considered to be something of a loose cannon on the deck.
