Taliban ban girls from secondary education in Afghanistan

[janterry]

The Taliban have effectively banned girls from secondary education in Afghanistan, by ordering high schools to re-open only for boys.

Girls were not mentioned in Friday’s announcement, which means boys will be back at their desks next week after a one-month hiatus, while their sisters will still be stuck at home.

The Taliban education ministry said secondary school classes for boys in grades seven to 12 would resume on Saturday, the start of the Afghan week. “All male teachers and students should attend their educational institutions,” the statement said. The future of girls and female teachers, stuck at home since the Taliban took control, was not addressed.

The edict makes Afghanistan the only country on earth to bar half its population from getting a secondary education.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/taliban-ban-girls-from-secondary-education-in-afghanistan

[Joinfortmill]

1. Repugnant. They must be really afraid of girls and women.

[Wicked Blue]

2. Why do they hate women so intensely?

There are various levels of misogyny around the world. Isn't there any way to eradicate it?

[PSPS]

3. It's really a basic tenet of every religion I know of.

[Wicked Blue]

6. Not in Wicca, thank Goddess

[electric_blue68]

7. And sections of each (or most) of these religions have renounced...

rejected these old messages, and acted accordingly.

[RKP5637]

4. Ain't religion great. The Christian Taliban in the US must be thinking, what can they do.

[electric_blue68]

9. On (back then) Air America Radio it was either (or both) Mike Malloy, or Thom Hartman talked about.

who talked about the Christian Dominists.
Was I (still am) appalled!

[Ray Bruns]

5. We all knew this was coming.

The taliban haven't changed. They were waiting for the western press to leave before they started their misogynistic programs.

[electric_blue68]

8. You're probably right. It's Horrific.