If We're Going to Pull Out of Afghanistan, Let's First Give Every Afghan Woman a Lethal Firearm and Training on How to Use It.
‘Terrible days ahead’: Afghan women fear the return of the Taliban.
After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline Islamists.
[quote]Outside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. “The Americans are leaving,” said Basireh Heydari, a Herat University student. “We have terrible days ahead with the Taliban. I’m worried they won’t let me leave the house, let alone what I’m doing now.”
A return to hardline Islamist rule could mean the rollback of one of the intervention’s least disputed achievements – the lifting of a Taliban prohibition of female education.[/quote]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/14/afghan-women-fear-the-return-of-the-taliban
After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline Islamists.
[quote]Outside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. “The Americans are leaving,” said Basireh Heydari, a Herat University student. “We have terrible days ahead with the Taliban. I’m worried they won’t let me leave the house, let alone what I’m doing now.”
A return to hardline Islamist rule could mean the rollback of one of the intervention’s least disputed achievements – the lifting of a Taliban prohibition of female education.[/quote]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/14/afghan-women-fear-the-return-of-the-taliban
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