Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
Date: 29/12/2022
H.E. the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Hissein Brahim Taha, called on the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) to quickly launch a global campaign to unite scholars and religious authorities in the Islamic world against the Taliban government’s decision to prevent girls from education, including university education, and its other repercussions, and to explain the true teachings of Islam, which calls for the education of girls.
The call of the Secretary-General came at the opening of the second meeting of the 2022 IIFA Bureau, held via video conferencing today Thursday, December 29, 2022. The Secretary-General chaired the meeting. He said, "the decision of the Taliban government to prevent girls from education, including university education, and to dismiss female faculty members from their positions on the pretext that this contradicts Islamic law, was the latest challenge to be reviewed by the IIFA in addition to issues of minorities, escalating hostility to Muslims in Western countries, and other pressing issues”.
Mr. Taha stressed the priority of the Afghan dossier in the OIC and IIFA agendas. He also pointed out that the Taliban's decision was not based on texts in Islamic law. Furthermore, he indicated that a team of scholars visited Afghanistan last June and held extensive meetings with Taliban scholars and government leaders. It was agreed that Islam granted women all their rights, including the right to education and work, explaining that the Taliban's decision deepens the fallacies that are spread from which Islam is free.
