Herat Taliban: "It is Haram for Women to Pray in the Mosque"!
Date: June 17, 2022 _ 27/03/1401
Nimrokh: Local sources from Herat province have reported that Taliban fighters announced today (Friday, June 17, 2022) in Herat city that women are prohibited from performing congregational prayers.
According to local sources who spoke to Etilaat-e-Roz, contrary to usual practices, Taliban fighters prevented women from entering mosques in Herat city today.
Sources state that armed Taliban members in the 7th and 8th districts of Herat city barred women from attending congregational prayers and declared that it is "haram" for women to pray outside their homes.
This marks the first time in over fourteen centuries since the emergence of Islam that Muslim women have been banned from entering mosques and participating in congregational prayers, and the act of women praying in mosques has been deemed "haram."

The Taliban’s declaration that it is “haram” for women to pray in mosques represents a profound distortion of Islamic tradition and a further step in the systematic erasure of women from public religious life. Forbidding women from entering mosques and participating in congregational prayers—practices accepted and protected for over 1,400 years in Islamic history—underscores the regime’s intent to isolate women not only socially and politically, but spiritually. This policy reinforces a broader architecture of gender apartheid, stripping women of agency in both civic and religious spaces under the guise of religious authority.