The federal government advises ladies in Tayikistan to look extra “Tayiko fashion” and don’t put on revealing clothes of western clothes or Islamic head, supposedly to strengthen nationwide identification.
Some within the Secular Muslim nation are speaking in opposition to the Council, together with President Emomali Rakhmon, in addition to within the type of a handbook that the federal government should concern this yr.
The Council that shall be printed in July shall be primarily based on “scientific and historic sources,” Khurshed Nizomi, an official of the Ministry of Tradition, instructed AFP.
The handbook applies to ladies “of all ages” and can give recommendation on what to make use of “at work, at dwelling, at theater or throughout celebrations,” he stated.
However Firuza Naimova, a pharmacist, questioned the necessity for presidency recommendation to ladies about clothes.
“There are various financial and social issues: the dearth of electrical energy, air high quality, emigration” to Russia, instructed AFP in Dushanbe, the poorest capital of the previous Soviet republics of Central Asia.
“Why do you wish to give classes to ladies? They will select their very own garments,” Naimova stated.
A earlier authorities handbook in 2018 suggested ladies to keep away from revealing European clothes, miniskirts and low necklines, but additionally chorus from carrying black kids and protecting their heads.
As a substitute, they have to use lengthy and vibrant tayikas robes, he stated
– ‘Trample our values’ –
President Emomali Rakhmon, who dominated Tayikistan since 1992, accepted a regulation in 2024 that prohibits the “import and sale of international clothes and their use in public locations” and requested the Tayikos to respect “using nationwide clothes.”
“In Tayikistan, ladies have all the time confronted strain on clothes choices,” Farzona Saidzoda, co -author of the feminist initiative “Inform Me Sister” instructed AFP.
“Beneath the Soviet Union, the Hijab was not used as a result of it was thought-about oblivious to our tradition in Central Asia.”
“However that is the identical for extra open and shorter garments,” he stated.
The state media have criticized the “known as artists” who use miniskirts, “imitators” of the American fashion and ladies who use the Hijab.
The style coverage started after the victory of Rakhmon’s communist forces in opposition to a coalition of Democrats and Islamists in a civil warfare that killed tens of hundreds of individuals within the 1990s.
Since then, the authorities have tried to strengthen a divided nation and eradicate Islam as a political drive, taking energetic measures in opposition to any opposition.
After a long time of Soviet atheism, Independence noticed a return of faith in a society harassed by poverty, with many Tayikos becoming a member of jihadist organizations within the Center East and neighbor Afghanistan.
“The state of affairs is worrying. Those that put on unusual garments such because the hijab consider themselves as totally different. They’re nothing and switch our values, undermine our identification,” Rakhmon stated.
– De facto prohibition of the beards –
The authorities have accelerated a repression since 4 armed males suspected that they got here from Tayikistan carried out an assault claimed by the Islamic State group close to Moscow final yr, killing 145 folks.
Hijab customers resent the affiliation with radical Islam.
“I’ve used the Hijab since I used to be 9 years previous. I’ve by no means had an issue till this yr after they requested me to indicate my hair in a ministry after which available in the market,” stated Dzhamila, a physician.
“The previous spring, a few of my associates have been arrested and obtained fines” for utilizing hijabs, he instructed AFP.
Authorities have trend designers to advertise conventional outfit.
“We’re creating fashionable clothes utilizing our wealthy cultural custom for each day use,” Khurshed Sattorov stated in his workshop.
“For girls who wish to cowl their hair, we’ve got nationwide textiles,” he stated.
There are not any comparable ideas for males, though beards are successfully prohibited and anybody with one runs the danger of being seen as an alleged Islamic extremist.
The Ministry of Tradition stated he was considering of issuing a separate handbook with a male clothes code.
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