Musical instruments have been thrown on a bonfire in Afghanistan, with the ruling Taliban government declaring music is immoral
Taliban officials enforcing a music ban in Herat province, Afghanistan. Credit: Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vic/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock.
Since they seized power in August 2021, the Taliban has imposed regulations and laws that align with a conservative view of Islam, including banning women from work and school. Now, in the northwestern region of Herat, officials from Afghanistan's vice ministry have been throwing musical instruments on a bonfire, after collecting them from the city.
The burning pile included guitars and other stringed instruments, a harmonium and a drum, as well as amplifiers and speakers. Uzair-ur-Rahman Mohajer, the deputy director of the Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Herat, said the instruments had been rounded up after a fatwa was issued by scholars.Earlier this month, the Taliban