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I hope this isn't just for show, and he doesn't meet a terrible fate.
Knowing the [greater] middle east, i doubt it. He'd be a martyr.
You'd have to have balls of fucking titanium to oppose a dictatorship, not just for show.
Afghanistan is not in the Middle East, it's solidly in Central Asia though. I think women can get an education in all of its neighbours - at least in India, Pakistan and Iran they can. They wouldn't mind them catching up I think.
As i said, [greater] middle east :)
You underestimate how insane the Taliban is. If it meant total extinction for them even then they wouldn't do it 😂
TF kind of weird American term is that. Kabul is as far away from the Middle East as Berlin or Moscow is. It's as if Turkey or Iran went around talking about the "greater European area" and included everything from Vladivostok through Berlin to Anchorage just because the prevailing culture has christian roots.
Also, this guy is also "the Taliban". They have their own internal struggles, and I think demilitarizing will soften them up a bit. That said, I also don't expect a female Afghan prime minister in the next century.
Berlin/Moscow are 1,500 kilometers farther than Kabul from Riyadh as an example. And Kabul is a little less farther than Istanbul, so that point is null.
Turkey IS european? I see no relation to anchorage, though. And that's a far fetch. Afghanistan actually has historic relations with us. They were under the ummayads (not good example of "good" relations but cmon, when has anybody ever had good relations in the ME?) It's not just Islam. I even understand Dari and Pashto much more than i do turkish. (i do understand hebrew vaguely, as an example)
I didn't deny that at all. The main argument was about women's rights and he is clearly better than most in Afghanistan. I'm not sure what you expect here.
I didn't even say you are wrong when you said Afghanistan isn't in the middle east. Truth be told, the ME is a very vague term. Most people i know think libya is middle eastern while (less) think Iran for example is not. I consider them middle eastern enough and you don't, that's fine.