More beheadings in Afghanistan
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lTaliban order beheading of shop mannequins
The Taliban have ordered a series of mannequin beheadings, telling clothes shops to remove the heads of dummies that offend Islam.
The instructions were given by the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in the western Afghan province of Herat.
Aziz Rahman, the head of the local department of the ministry, described the mannequins as “statues” and claimed that they were being worshipped, which is prohibited under Islam.
Despite shopkeepers’ pleas that they needed their dummies, Rahman said he “ordered that they [the mannequins] should have their heads removed” and warned there would be severe punishment if they violated the ruling.
