No high school for girls!

[Jovial Monk]

Reading this I was reminded of the anger Mum felt all her life to her father for pulling her out of school at age 14 to work in his brother’s ice cream business:

The US was poised to set the Taliban on the path to diplomatic recognition before the plan was derailed by the Afghan rulers’ sudden U-turn on a promise to allow girls’ education, the Guardian understands.

The group prompted international outrage and confusion on Wednesday when it reneged on a deal to allow teenage girls to go to secondary school, just a week after the education ministry announced that schools would open for all students.

‘Is it a crime to study?’: outcry as Taliban bar girls from secondary schools

US diplomats had been so optimistic that the Taliban would make good on the promise that a joint event had been planned ahead of this weekend’s Doha Forum in Qatar that would have set the process in motion to grant diplomatic recognition to the group.

A seat had been reserved for the Taliban at a panel at the forum dedicated to girls’ education in which a Taliban representative would have addressed the role of women with Afghan female activists.

The sudden reversal undermined the argument that a more “moderate” leadership now dominates the Taliban, and such optimism was further clouded this weekend when the group ordered Afghanistan television stations to remove BBC news bulletins in Pashto, Persian and Uzbek.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... cognition

How inadequate you must be if you have to deny half the population an education.

[Super Nova]

It is very sad.

Here in the UAE the women are educated, hold high positions in government and government entities. Are smart and they are respected.

It is not Moslem thing, it is the Taliban. They believe the only place for women is in the house, be the husbands sex slave and to bare children.

It is very sad.

[Jovial Monk]

It is.