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[–] [email protected] 148 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Imagine looking around that classroom and thinking "All is right with this".

[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Not just "all is right". They see this and think "this is what God wants."

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 8 months ago (102 children)

If you raise your kids to believe in Allah you are setting up your grandchildren to live like this. Oppose religion, wherever you see it.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

No where in Islam does it say that girls are not allowed to study, what a fucking bunch of dimwits these people are..

Edit: Narcissist would be the right word here

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

rampant misogynists would be appropriate too.

[–] lilsolar 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Infact, in thr quran, Allah encourages everyone to gather knowledge.

These fuckers are making a mockery of Islam

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It isn't about religion with any of these types. Rather, it's about religion being a tool they can use so that those who do think it's all about religion allow them to have authority.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago

religion sucks, conservatism sucks. that shit is so old.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago

Absolutely reprehensible and repulsive. Sick fuckers are so scared of women that they will not let them be educated. Fuck those backwards ass sexist monsters. Indefensible

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago

Fucking incel losers, this Taliban.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

learning is never over. No matter how hard authoritarians try.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll never forget, a few years into the war I asked what my Afghani colleague thought of the war. He told me "I hate the Taliban. When I was a boy they came to my village and slit all the men's throats. NOT a few of the men. ALL of the men." Leaving those people to suffer that regime was a greater crime than any we committed in the 20 years of occupation.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (10 children)

This is exactly what the alt-right Christian fucks want. I'm surprised that they don't realize how much in common they have with the Taliban.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

No words to describe this stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My initial thought experiment on this was "could these girls migrate to the west on a visa to complete their studies and return?", and then I went down the rabbit hole of the demographics of Afghanistan. Of a population of around 40m, 46% are under 15, which is mad! That's potentially a lot of girls that will lose an education.

I wonder if a remote education could be the way forward? Let these girls study remotely online, assuming they have some form of internet access available, and create a worldwide visa that would allow any Afghan girl that can pass a standard entry exam to attend university. While we have no need to provide children from another country an education, this would probably be a low-cost solution, and one that I imagine many rich philanthropists would happily provide as a grant.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This solution sort of implies that the Taliban would allow it. Like the whole system over there isn't designed to crush these women as a form of control. It's not a lack of ability to educate them this is by design of their government.

For a visa like this to work you'd need the government and the Men of the country to be in agreement with it happening. That currently isn't the case. Providing a visa that almost no one will be able to use even if they wanted too would not only not help but could easily be something that's pointed to as "we're already providing a way for them to get educated and we don't have to do anything else."

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In September 2021, a month after U.S. and NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan following two decades of war, the Taliban announced that girls were barred from studying beyond sixth grade.

The Taliban have defied global condemnation and warnings that the restrictions will make it almost impossible for them to gain recognition as the country’s legitimate rulers.

Last week, U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayeva expressed concern that a generation of Afghan girls is falling behind with each day that passes.

Last week, an official in the Education Ministry said Afghan girls of all ages are allowed to study in religious schools known as madrassas, which have traditionally been boys-only.

In another part of Kabul, 13-year old Setayesh Sahibzada wonders what the future holds for her.

Analyst Muhammad Saleem Paigir warned that excluding women and girls from education will be disastrous for Afghanistan.


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