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Taliban cancels girls’ higher education despite pledges
ap ^ | March 23, 2022

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; burqa; girls; hijab; kabul; muslims; schools; sunni; sunnimuslims; taliban
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To: Fai Mao

What kind of barbarian calls for the anhilation of 40 million people.

Here’s what kind of barbarian.
A wannabee mass murderer barbarian. One like you.

You wrote this:
“The next time Afghanistan should just glow in the dark. No troops, no invasion, just end them, all of them.”

“All of them”
That includes about 10 million children.

Youre probably not a Moslem.
At least that’s my guess.
But one thing youre 100% certainly not. A Christian.


21 posted on 03/24/2022 3:41:51 PM PDT by OVERTIME (Tammie Lee Haynes)
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To: george76

I am shocked and dismayed, shocked and dismayed I tell you, at the number of FReepers that are genuinely surprised at this move by the Taliban. /S


22 posted on 03/24/2022 3:43:42 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: george76

I can’t even begin to describe how surprised I am by this...


23 posted on 03/24/2022 3:53:50 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: george76
"The unexpected decision..."

Lol, unexpected...you gotta be kidding. Our "leaders'" stupidity is more than expected, however.

24 posted on 03/24/2022 3:56:26 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: george76

This is my shocked face.


25 posted on 03/24/2022 3:57:24 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: george76

But President Retard said they were nice radical ragheads? 🤪


26 posted on 03/24/2022 4:11:12 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: george76

Why is this news? It was a foregone conclusion as soon as the last US troops departed.

Frankly I am all for repealing the 19th Amendment too


27 posted on 03/24/2022 4:20:51 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: george76

This is what the women of American wanted.


28 posted on 03/24/2022 4:21:52 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: george76

What is all the virtue signaling crowd going to do about it?


29 posted on 03/24/2022 4:25:32 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: DoughtyOne
LMAO... Who believed them?

Well, you can't trust Sunni Muslims.

But you can make a nuclear deal with Shia Muslims, i.e., Iran backed by "We'll store the excess plutonium" Russia.

Gawd, Biden & co. are so dumb.

30 posted on 03/24/2022 4:32:04 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: OVERTIME

I referring to after the next time the Taliban makes a terrorist attack and kills 1000s of people like happened September 11,2001. It is not worth the treasure and not worth the blood of our soldiers.

When it comes to Islam there can be no mercy. Honestly, they can do whatever they want in their own borders. I do not care. But, they need to be prevented from immigrating and their evil needs to be contain where they are. I am not calling for them to be killed in cold blood. Only as a response to their bringing death and destruction to innocent people. If the Taliban commits a terrorist act. Wipe them out. Do not engage them in another 20 year war.


31 posted on 03/24/2022 4:36:40 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: george76

BREAKING NEWS: The Taliban are untrustworthy...


32 posted on 03/24/2022 4:38:24 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yep...


33 posted on 03/24/2022 4:39:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: george76

There is no such thing as a PLEDGE to a Muslim.

Taquiyya is their mantra


34 posted on 03/24/2022 4:41:37 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: george76
Gee, didn't see that coming with those misogynistic murdering backward savages. Next up, no women driving cars, then full on Burkas so the raping bastards won't be temped by the slightest show of female flesh. Still, they have their goats.

I wonder what the time frame of Trump's agreement with the Taliban was? He stipulated that if they hurt one American or go back on the agreement they would literally find hell on Earth. Of course Biteme negated the agreement by changing the pull out date.

35 posted on 03/24/2022 4:56:59 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: george76

the gays and feminists are going to love when the demoncrat party hands this nation over to islam


36 posted on 03/24/2022 5:59:53 PM PDT by SisterK (recognize and resist tyranny)
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