{"id":15375,"date":"2026-02-04T01:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15375"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:43:27","slug":"from-the-ministry-of-higher-education-to-the-justice-system-the-sword-of-takfir-raised-against-critics-of-the-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/from-the-ministry-of-higher-education-to-the-justice-system-the-sword-of-takfir-raised-against-critics-of-the-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Ministry of Higher Education to the Justice System; the Sword of Takfir Raised Against Critics of the Regulation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15384\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/atahsilattedde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/atahsilattedde.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/atahsilattedde-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/atahsilattedde-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/atahsilattedde-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/atahsilattedde-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>From the Ministry of Higher Education to the Justice System; the Sword of Takfir Raised Against Critics of the Regulation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Taliban\u2019s Minister of Higher Education, launched an unprecedented attack on critics of the \u201cPenal Regulation of Taliban Courts,\u201d labeling them \u201cabsolute infidels\u201d and effectively declaring any opposition to the controversial document outside the boundaries of religion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban Ministry of Higher Education stated that these remarks were made on Saturday, 31 January 2026, during Nadeem\u2019s speech at a religious center in Paktia Province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In his speech, Nadeem rejected all criticism and emphasized that the Taliban draft their laws not based on human rights or international standards, but solely on their own interpretation of Islamic Sharia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>He claimed that strictness and violence are not \u201coppression\u201d but a \u201creligious command,\u201d and asserted that the Taliban have no obligation to respond to critics of these laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This stance comes as the Taliban Ministry of Justice had previously warned that critics of the group\u2019s laws would be considered criminals and subjected to judicial prosecution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The \u201cPenal Regulation of Taliban Courts,\u201d by recognizing slavery, enforcing class-based segregation of society, and legitimizing harsh punishments, has been described by human rights organizations as an official document for the repression of religious minorities and a framework for the physical elimination of opponents.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Ministry of Higher Education to the Justice System; the Sword of Takfir Raised Against Critics of the Regulation. Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Taliban\u2019s Minister of Higher Education, launched an unprecedented attack on critics of the \u201cPenal Regulation of Taliban Courts,\u201d labeling them \u201cabsolute infidels\u201d and effectively declaring any opposition to the controversial document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15385,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions\/15385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}