1 Million Girls Barred from Education Under "Rule of Islam"

[Vinson]

How sad these girls can't go to school. I remember the girl Malala that got shot in the face because she wanted to go to school.

More than 1 million girls in Afghanistan barred from education by Taliban as school year starts

THE school year in Afghanistan started today but without girls — whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond age 11.

The United Nations children’s agency says that more than one million girls are affected by the ban.

It also estimates that five million were out of school before the Taliban takeover due to a lack of facilities and other reasons.



The Taliban’s Education Ministry marked the start of the new academic year with a ceremony that female journalists were not allowed to attend.

The invitations sent out to reporters said: “Due to the lack of a suitable place for the sisters, we apologise to female reporters.”

During a ceremony, Taliban Education Minister Habibullah Agha said that the ministry was trying “to increase the quality of education of religious and modern sciences as much as possible.”

The Taliban has been prioritising Islamic knowledge over basic literacy and numeracy.

The minister also called on students to avoid wearing clothes that contradict Islamic and Afghan principles.

Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi said that the Taliban was trying to expand education in “all remote areas in the country.”

Education for girls was also banned by the Taliban when it was in power during the 1990s.

Despite initially promising a more moderate rule, the group has also barred women from higher education, public spaces like parks and most jobs as part of harsh measures imposed after it took over following the ousting of United States and Nato forces from the country in 2021.

Although Afghan boys have access to education, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised the Taliban, saying its “abusive” educational policies are harming boys as well as girls.

In a report published in December, HRW said that there had been less attention to the deep harm inflicted on boys’ education as qualified teachers left the profession.

More than 1 million girls in Afghanistan barred from education by Taliban as school year starts

morningstaronline.co.uk

 

[Frankfooter]

Whose turn is it to invade?
Is it Russia's again?

 

[Vinson]

Whose turn is it to invade?
Is it Russia's again?

You love these guys, they stuck it to the Russians and the West and they maintain a medievale way of life.

This is what they looked like before the Tali

 

[southpaw]

This is what they looked like before the Tali

So? That's also what the Iranians looked like before the revolution.

You're missing an obvious fact. The Taliban are Afghans, just like the Islamic revolutionaries were Iranians.

It's hubris to think a foreign power, from a completely different region and culture, can go in there and change their entire society. Good luck.

 

[Frankfooter]

You love these guys, they stuck it to the Russians and the West and they maintain a medievale way of life.

This is what they looked like before the Tali

Thanks for showing us how western interventions make things worse.
Well done.

 

[Vinson]

Thanks for showing us how western interventions make things worse.
Well done.

But you're happy the way it is now, not before. You like all these guys, Taliban, Isis, Hamas. It started before Russia.

 

[y2kmark]

But you're happy the way it is now, not before. You like all these guys, Taliban, Isis, Hamas. It started before Russia.

Tali are under increasing pressure from ISIS K, who set off a big bomb in Kandahar a couple of days before the Moscow attack. Increasing the body count for their brand of Islam. It's pushing them toward strict Sharia law. Women just getting in their way...

 

[y2kmark]

Thanks for showing us how western interventions make things worse.
Well done.

Mistake to try to equate the US occupation to the Russian invasion, which taught these guys new terror tactics and techniques, as well as instilling a thirst for revenge. Let the Tali and the Ruskies try to sort out ISIS K, we have enough on our plate with the American Taliban. The A Tali (AKA "Christian nationalists) even seem to have supporters on this board...

 

[TomFord1980]

How sad these girls can't go to school. I remember the girl Malala that got shot in the face because she wanted to go to school.

More than 1 million girls in Afghanistan barred from education by Taliban as school year starts

THE school year in Afghanistan started today but without girls — whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond age 11.

The United Nations children’s agency says that more than one million girls are affected by the ban.

It also estimates that five million were out of school before the Taliban takeover due to a lack of facilities and other reasons.



The Taliban’s Education Ministry marked the start of the new academic year with a ceremony that female journalists were not allowed to attend.

The invitations sent out to reporters said: “Due to the lack of a suitable place for the sisters, we apologise to female reporters.”

During a ceremony, Taliban Education Minister Habibullah Agha said that the ministry was trying “to increase the quality of education of religious and modern sciences as much as possible.”

The Taliban has been prioritising Islamic knowledge over basic literacy and numeracy.

The minister also called on students to avoid wearing clothes that contradict Islamic and Afghan principles.

Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi said that the Taliban was trying to expand education in “all remote areas in the country.”

Education for girls was also banned by the Taliban when it was in power during the 1990s.

Despite initially promising a more moderate rule, the group has also barred women from higher education, public spaces like parks and most jobs as part of harsh measures imposed after it took over following the ousting of United States and Nato forces from the country in 2021.

Although Afghan boys have access to education, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised the Taliban, saying its “abusive” educational policies are harming boys as well as girls.

In a report published in December, HRW said that there had been less attention to the deep harm inflicted on boys’ education as qualified teachers left the profession.

More than 1 million girls in Afghanistan barred from education by Taliban as school year starts

morningstaronline.co.uk

Where are the womens rights activists?

 

[Frankfooter]

Mistake to try to equate the US occupation to the Russian invasion, which taught these guys new terror tactics and techniques, as well as instilling a thirst for revenge. Let the Tali and the Ruskies try to sort out ISIS K, we have enough on our plate with the American Taliban. The A Tali (AKA "Christian nationalists) even seem to have supporters on this board...

I don't think the US invasion was any more successful in changing minds in Afghanistan.

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772413890669977930

 

[Mr Deeds]

So Islamic law wants to keep women barefoot in pregnant and not have any say at all in their lives. Kind of reminds me of what the far right-wing extremists in the in the US are trying to do right now

 

[Vinson]

They were stoning women to death before but they made some ind of deal with the West and they stopped, looks like they're starting again. They put them in a hole and stone them to death.

Taliban leader says women will be stoned to death in public

The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue.

“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada in a voice message, aired on state television over the weekend, addressing Western officials.

“But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public,” he declared in his harshest comments since taking over Kabul in August 2021.

“These are all against your democracy but we will continue doing it. We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.”

Afghanistan’s state TV, now under Taliban control, broadcasts voice messages purporting to be from Akhundzada, who has never been seen in public aside from a few old portraits.



He is believed to be based in southern Kandahar, the stronghold of the Taliban.

Despite promising a more moderate government, the Taliban quickly returned to harsh public punishments like public executions and floggings, similar to those from their previous rule in the late 1990s.

The United Nations has strongly criticised the Taliban and has called on the country’s rulers to halt such practices.

In his voice message, Akhundzada said that the women’s rights that the international community had been advocating for were against the Taliban’s harsh interpretation of Islamic Sharia.

“Do women want the rights that Westerners are talking about? They are against Sharia and clerics’ opinions, the clerics who toppled Western democracy,” he said.

“I told the Mujahedin that we tell the Westerners that we fought against you for 20 years and we will fight 20 and even more years against you,” he said, emphasising the need for resilience in opposing women’s rights among Taliban foot soldiers.

“It did not finish [when you left]. It does not mean we would now just sit and drink tea. We will bring Sharia to this land,” he added. “It did finish after we took over Kabul. No, we will now bring Sharia into action.”

Women ‘living in prison’
His remarks have incited outrage among Afghans, with some calling on the international community to increase pressure on the Taliban.

“The money that they receive from the international community as humanitarian aid is just feeding them against women,” Tala, a former civil servant, told The Telegraph from the capital Kabul.

“As a woman, I don’t feel safe and secure in Afghanistan. Each morning starts with a barrage of notices and orders imposing restrictions and stringent rules on women, stripping away even the smallest joys and extinguishing hope for a brighter future,” she added.

“We, the women, are living in prison,” Tala said, “And the Taliban are making it smaller for us every passing day.”

Taliban leader says women will be stoned to death in public

The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue.

www.yahoo.com

 

[southpaw]

Women ‘living in prison’

And what do you propose be done about this?