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The Afghan all-girls robotics team have been offered scholarships at 'incredible universities,' says Oklahoma mother who helped them escape the Taliban
Business Insider ^ | 22 August 2021 | Sophia ankel

Posted on 08/26/2021 9:12:24 AM PDT by Cronos

A 60-year-old Oklahoma mother who helped several members of an internationally recognized all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan escape the country said they are feeling "so grateful" to be out.

On Tuesday, 10 of the so-called "Afghan Dreamers," aged 16 to 18, were able to leave Kabul on a commercial flight to Doha, Qatar, after several failed attempts to flee the country.

One of the people who helped them get out was Allyson Reneau, a mother-of-11 from Oklahoma, who first met the girls at a Humans to Mars summit in Washington DC in May 2019.

..."I got a text from one of the girls that just said: 'We did it.' All the emotion from two weeks of work and running into a wall constantly, and burying your feelings, and bearing your feelings for the girls, it just hit me all at once."

They were initially not able to obtain their visas to travel, but an intervention by former President Donald Trump allowed them to fly to DC and compete.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; oklahoma; roboticsteam; trump; wboopi; women
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These are real refugees, not the economic migrants who hit the shores of Europe in 2017
1 posted on 08/26/2021 9:12:24 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

This is not what we’re going to be getting.


2 posted on 08/26/2021 9:13:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

No. The other 99.8% of Afghan refugees will come with their own set of ‘issues’. Many are “not used to” seeing women walk about freely, unaccompanined by a man, and with their faces showing. So there’s that.


3 posted on 08/26/2021 9:17:12 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Cronos

Do they intend to assimilate into Americans, or will they continue to wear the rags of submission on their heads?


4 posted on 08/26/2021 9:17:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Cronos

Laz would hit it.


5 posted on 08/26/2021 9:17:32 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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And note...

"They were initially not able to obtain their visas to travel, but an intervention by former President Donald Trump allowed them to fly to DC and compete."
6 posted on 08/26/2021 9:17:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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All you Americans kids with overwhelming college debt....Ha! Ha! Ha!


7 posted on 08/26/2021 9:19:24 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Cronos

We do not need ONE more muslim.


8 posted on 08/26/2021 9:19:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Cronos

Well, some very good news here.

Perhaps one day they will feel free removing their head scarves and changing their religious opinions. I could just be wishing.


9 posted on 08/26/2021 9:20:01 AM PDT by hoe_cake
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To: BenLurkin

I’m going to bet they will discard the headscarves and most likely join the “Ex-Muslim Association of America” — yes, that’s an actual association.

Fully 25% of all American Muslims born in the USA leave Islam. I’ve not seen statistics but it seems that most become atheists though.


10 posted on 08/26/2021 9:20:07 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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16-18 YO ... insulated from the harsh realities of Islam

Those raised as children during the last twenty years will suffer unimaginable turmoil and despair.


11 posted on 08/26/2021 9:20:10 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Afghanistan has many beautiful women who are about to have their lives ruined by the Taliban. Why not import millions of them instead of the fighting age males we seem to be?


12 posted on 08/26/2021 9:20:27 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Cronos

They’re pretty cute for being robots


13 posted on 08/26/2021 9:20:40 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: Cronos

By 2050 this country will be unrecognizable. Whites will be what blacks were in the 1950s.


14 posted on 08/26/2021 9:21:06 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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To: dfwgator

Nope.


15 posted on 08/26/2021 9:21:25 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Thats what they said when we started letting the eyetalians in.


16 posted on 08/26/2021 9:23:25 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: lee martell

Faces showing?

They’re going to be seeing women in daisy dukes, sundresses, tank tops and bikinis. And they’ll be bringing their mindset toward women and young boys with them.

Talk about sensory overload. Gonna be bad folks.


17 posted on 08/26/2021 9:23:58 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You are being optimistic.
Less than 10 years.
White Christians will be what the Jews were in the 1920s-1930s.


18 posted on 08/26/2021 9:24:51 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: BenLurkin

That will all depend on who takes them in and raises them.

They’ll either become westernized, sometime soon, or they’ll feel out of place, find a community of ‘like minded folks’ and join them.

Have no fear, Tlaib and Omar probably have folks en route to Oklahoma to “speak”’ to the girls and offer any assistance needed.


19 posted on 08/26/2021 9:27:04 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Renfrew

Cause you gotta take the bad with the good?


20 posted on 08/26/2021 9:28:40 AM PDT by qaz123
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