双语畅销书《我是马拉拉》第7章:穆夫提(11)
The MMA government banned CD and DVD shops and wanted to create a morality police like the Afghan Taliban had set up. The idea was they would be able to stop a woman accompanied by a man and require her to prove that the man was her relative. Thankfully, our supreme court stopped this. Then MMA activists launched attacks on cinemas and tore down billboards with pictures of women or blacked them out with paint. They even snatched female mannequins from clothing shops. They harassed men wearing Western-style shirts and trousers instead of the traditional shalwar kamiz and insisted women cover their heads. It was as though they wanted to remove all traces of womankind from public life.
MMA政府禁止CD和DVD店，并想和阿富汗塔利班分子一样，组织一群道德警察。他们原打算制定法律，在路上随意拦下男女，女子便必须证明身边的男子是她的亲戚。幸好我们的最高法院阻止了这件事。于是MMA激进分子便发起了对电影院和商店的攻击活动，并大肆拆毁有女性照片的广告牌，或是用白色油漆遮盖。他们甚至强行搬走服饰店里的塑料女性服装模特。他们还会在路上骚扰穿着西式风格衬衫和长裤、而非传统上衫下裤的男人，并坚持妇女都要把头部给遮起来。他们的行为旨在将公共生活里所有的女性迹象全部抹去。
My father’s high school opened in 2003. That first year they had boys and girls together, but by 2004 the climate had changed so it was unthinkable to have girls and boys in the same class. That changing climate made Ghulamullah bold. One of the school clerks told my father that the mufti kept coming into school and demanding why we girls were still using the main entrance. He said that one day, when a male member of staff took a female teacher out to the main road to get a rickshaw, the maulana asked, ‘Why did this man escort her to the road, is he her brother?’
父亲的学校在2003年成立了高中部。第一年是男女同校，但到了2004年，局势改变，男女生同班上课变成一件不能被接受的事。这样的局势改变，让贾兰穆拉罕胆大妄为了起来。学校里一名职员告诉父亲，这个穆夫提总是跑到学校去，质问为什么女学生仍然继续使用正门进出学校。有一天，学校里一名男职员送一位女老师到大路上搭三轮车，贾兰穆拉罕问道：“为什么这个男人送她去路上，他是她的兄长吗？”
‘No,’ replied the clerk, ‘he is a colleague.’
“不是，”这名职员回答，“我们是同事。”
‘That is wrong!’ said the maulana.
“这样的行为是错误的！”贾兰穆拉罕说。
My father told the clerk to call him next time he saw the maulana. When the call came, my father and the Islamic studies teacher went out to confront him.
父亲告诉那名职员，下次如果再看到贾兰穆拉罕，就打电话给他。当电话打来时，父亲和教伊斯兰课程的老师就去和他对质。
