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Afghanistan – Inside
a Strict Islamic Madrassa School for Girls – Video +
An insight into a girls' school in Afghanistan which imposes an even stricter interpretation of Islam than the Taliban.
24 December 2014 - Kunduz in northern
Afghanistan is the country's fifth largest city and home to more than
300,000 people.
It was once
a Taliban stronghold where women were deprived of their basic rights
and education for girls was prohibited.
Today, particularly in
towns and cities, women can go outside without their husbands or fathers, they
can work, and girls can attend school and even university.
But with a new wave
of privately run madrasas - or religious schools - being opened across the
country, there is a growing feeling among women's rights groups that these
freedoms are again under threat.
There are now 1,300
unregistered madrasas in Afghanistan, where children are given only religious
teaching.
This is increasing fears
among those involved in mainstream education.
Arguably the most
controversial of these madrasas is Ashraf-ul Madares in
Kunduz, founded by two local senior clerics, where 6,000 girls study
full time.
The girls attend the
madrasa solely to study the Quran and the teachings of the prophet Mohammed.
They are taught by male teachers, who they are forbidden from meeting
face-to-face, and full hijab must be worn.
In The Girls of the Taliban, our cameras gain unprecedented access to film inside this madrasa, to meet with the girls and their families and to question the men behind it.