Deh Saleh, Afghanistan, where tensions are brewing as local clerics restrict women's rights.<br /> <br />A recent decree bars women from leaving home without a male relative and orders cosmetic shops shut on the pretext they were used for prostitution.<br /> <br />It also contains a warning: If officials resist our demands, we will start a jihad.<br /> <br />Technically only senior clerics in Kabul are allowed to issue a fatwa, or religious order.<br /> <br />One female MP said the decree was reminiscent of Taliban rule from 1996-2001 when women were forced to wear burqas and sometimes had fingers cut off for wearing nail polish.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) MEMBER OF THE AFGHAN PARLIAMENT, FUZIA KOFI SAYING:<br /> <br />"The rule of law in Afghanistan is clear that everybody has equal rights, now if a specific group comes and they try to impose their own ideas on the citizens of Afghanistan it is actually taking Afghanistan back to the Taliban period ..."<br /> <br />The edict has angered some locals and business owners
