“I don’t think women will be allowed to play cricket because it is not necessary for women to play cricket“. The statement by the Deputy Head of the Culture Commission in Afghanistan, Ahmadullah Wasiq, is not inclusive. Motivation is equally limiting. “They may face situations where their face or body is not covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen this way ”. For them not even the possibility of sport behind closed doors because they could be filmed or photographed.
It is not only cricket that is banned, so are all other sports that expose the body of women. It means ban all sport. It is not Islam that prohibits it, there are many Muslim athletes. It is the obscurantism of the Taliban who take away one more thing from women after having eliminated them from radio and television, from many jobs, after having deprived them of the possibility of studying and after having separated them from the males in the classes they can still attend.
Taking away the sport is as serious as having removed the music, except that here the deprivation is only for women as to reaffirm an inferiority that must be perpetuated and that must be accentuated. Preventing women from playing sports is first and foremost one a matter of movement and health. Women’s bodies need not be shown, but neither should they be trained. Physical prowess is male only. For women, the body does not have to exist so it should not be taken care of. Sport is physical and mental health. To deny it is to deny this too from the time they were little girls.
There is so much more. Sports activity is a way of expressing oneself such as music, dance, theater, work. Once again a piece of personal and collective freedom is taken away from Afghan women. Because sport is joy and it is sharing: it is the satisfaction of having achieved a result and having achieved it together with your companions. The Taliban also take this away from women: the possibility of teaming up. Denying sport is not denying a championship or an Olympic qualification, it is denying being together, being able to organize, it is once again taking away a piece of space from them.
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