Posted on 03/24/2022 2:54:17 PM PDT by george76
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers decided against opening schools to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a previous promise and opting to appease their hardline base at the expense of further alienating the international community.
The unexpected decision, confirmed by a Taliban official Wednesday, came at the start of the new school year in Afghanistan. It is bound to disrupt Taliban efforts to win recognition from potential international donors, at a time when the country is mired in a worsening humanitarian crisis.
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women are not required to wear the all encompassing burqa. but must wear the traditional hijab, covering their heads
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Girls have been banned from school beyond Grade 6 in most of the country since the Taliban’s return. Universities opened up earlier this year in much of the country, but since taking power the Taliban edicts have been erratic and while a handful of provinces continued to provide education to all, most provinces closed educational institutions for girls and women.
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The leadership hasn’t decided when or how they will allow girls to return to school,” Hashmi said.
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Most Taliban are ethnic Pashtuns. In their sweep through the country last year, other ethnics groups such as Uzbeks and Tajiks in the north of the country either joined the fight to give the Taliban their victory or simply chose not to fight.
“We did everything the Taliban asked in terms of Islamic dress and they promised that girls could go to school and now they have broken their promise,” said Mariam Naheebi, a local journalist who spoke to the Associated Press in the Afghan capital. Naheebi has protested for women’s rights and says “they have not been honest with us.”
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Great, now we are living in a world where you can’t even take the word of the Taliban at face value? Great....just great.
America’s deep-staters and progressives have reached the limits of global liberal hegemony. They just can’t impose their woke world-view on any more nations or peoples
So they will take it out on Americans instead.
The next time Afghanistan should just glow in the dark. No troops, no invasion, just end them, all of them.
LMAO...
Who believed them?
US withdrawal complete Aug 30, 2021
Taliban cuts education access to women March 24, 2022.
7 months.
Am I supposed to shed a tear that hardcore Muslims won’t let their daughters be indoctrinated by woke feminism and gender ideology they were probably spoonfeeding them beforehand?
Haha! Now THAT'S funny!
Quel suprise!
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Way to go, Brandon
No better time than the present to go back on agreements and test fire ICBMs and invade other countries…………
What's unexpected about it?
After our experience in the West, I can’t say I blame them.
Well, them islamo-sandwiches ain’t gonna make themselves.
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