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    Girls get their clocks turned back to the middle ages.....again.. So sad.

    Its the 21st Century and still these Muslim idiots and their zealotry are allowed to keep wonem in the dark ages - its incredibly sad and its going under the radar as the worlds attention is focussed elsewhere.

    Afghanistan girls' tears over chaotic Taliban schools U-turn

    Early this morning, at her home on a hilltop in the west of Kabul, 15-year-old Marzia packed her bag for school, for the first time since the Taliban took power last August.


    "I became so, so happy when I heard school was restarting," she told the BBC. "It makes me hopeful about the future again."


    Around 200 other girls had also made their way to the Sayed ul Shuhada school, far fewer than usual, as pupils and their families debated whether or not lessons would actually start and whether it would be safe for them to attend.


    Since August, in most of Afghanistan, only girls' primary schools have remained open, along with all boys' schools.


    "A devastating day" for Afghan girls: Watch Malala Yousafzai react to the Taliban schools U-turn
    Today as a new academic year began, girls' secondary schools were finally expected to re-open along with other institutes.


    It felt a particularly poignant moment for students here. Last year more than 90 of their classmates and school staff were killed in an attack by the local affiliate of the Islamic State group.


    "The first suicide bombing happened very close to me," says Sakina, as her eyes fill up with tears. "There were lots of dead people in front of me… I didn't think I would survive."


    Sakina wants to rebuild her life after last year's bombing and the Taliban takeover
    She pauses, overwhelmed with emotion, before continuing, "Our revenge on the people who did this, will be continuing our education. We want to succeed in our lives, so we can fulfil the dreams of our martyrs."


    As they entered the classrooms, the students wiped the dust off the desks but already some of the teachers were murmuring that, unexpectedly, the school would have to shut down again.

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    I think they should rename BBC "His Masters Voice".





    Where do the female students at Kabul Uni come from- straight from Primary school? I believe, under the new regime, a curtain separates them in lecture rooms from the male students though. But at least they can study, and graduate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I think
    No, you don't.

    The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has announced that girls’ high schools will be closed, hours after they reopened for the first time in nearly seven months.
    The backtracking by the Taliban means female students above the sixth grade will not be able to attend school.
    The Taliban closes Afghan girls’ schools hours after reopening | Taliban News | Al Jazeera.

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    Sad for the girls, who are not allowed to achieve their full potential , and sad for the country that is underutilizing it's human resources. Sad for the human species as a whole.

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    I await the requisite apology, from the predictable boneheads.



    Afghan students return to Kabul U, but with restrictions


    Feb. 26, 2022


    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Kabul University, among Afghanistan’s oldest and most revered institutions of higher education, reopened Saturday for the first time since the Taliban takeover six months ago. Men and women attended, but now were segregated, with women required to wear Islamic dress.

    Dozens of female students, all wearing the hijab, the veil worn by Muslim women, lined up outside the university gate. They were eager to resume classes cut abruptly short in the wake of the Taliban’s August takeover. Taliban stood guard at the campus's three entrances. Previously the university was co-educational, with men and women taking classes together.

    Most of the students said Saturday they didn’t know what to expect but were surprised to discover they could resume regular coursework and advance in their chosen fields of study. The university largely follows the U.S. liberal arts model.

    “After much delay, fortunately, all universities and educational institutions started today Feb. 26,” Taliban spokesman for the Higher Education Ministry Ahmad Taqqi said in a video clip to AP. “The education will continue based on the plans and policies of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.”

    The music department was the only discipline canceled for both males and females, returning students told The Associated Press. The Taliban did not respond to further AP requests for comment.

    “There have been no changes made to the syllabus,” said Bahija Aman, 21, a third-year anthropology major. “The instructors are the same in my classes.”
    “I am happy they have finally let us return to university,” she added.

    Aman has spent the last six months at home. Her text books are neatly piled on her desk, where she has spent most of her time keeping up with her studies. As a top student, she was determined to keep her rank when universities reopened, she said.

    She hopes to graduate and eventually earn a doctorate, all in Afghanistan.

    Once attended by 22,000 students, the much-anticipated opening was a quiet affair.

    Media requests to enter the premises were denied by the Taliban. A statement on the university's official Facebook page this week announced that students would return to classes Saturday and that classes would adhere to religious and cultural values.

    Like most public universities, Kabul University had closed in the immediate aftermath of the Taliban takeover. The issue of whether women would be able to return without restrictions has been a key concern of the international community. Many feared the Taliban would bar females as happened during the group’s previous rule from 1996-2001.

    The Taliban have said they don’t object to education for women but require classes to be segregated and based on Islamic principles as they understand them. Some public universities re-opened earlier this month in the provinces of Lagham, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Nimroz, Farah and Helmand.

    Some Taliban officials have also stated that female students should be taught exclusively by female instructors. This was never an explicitly stated government policy, however. Returning students said their instructors were both male and female, highlighting possible challenges in recruiting new instructors.

    Despite the lack of a formal ban, girls grade seven and up have effectively been barred from going to school in most of the country since the Taliban’s takeover six months ago. The Taliban have said girls will be able to return to school by late March.

    Access to education is a key demand of the international community, and the Taliban have blamed delays on lack of adequate space, especially in cities, to accommodate segregated schooling.

    The new restrictions were spelled out by instructors to the Saturday morning cohort of female students. They were to wear the Islamic head-covering and could not bring smartphones to the university premises. Male students attend courses in the afternoon.

    But little else appears to have changed. Kabul University posted a list of vacancies earlier this month on its Facebook page, including positions in the departments of art, public policy, literature, media and communications, and political science.

    For Aman, the restrictions are a small concession to make. “I am loyal to the rule of law, I will follow it. But I hope there won't be more changes.”

    Afghan students return to Kabul U, but with restrictions


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    Do they teach Washing clothes, cooking rice, nagging husbands in school? No? Well whats the problem then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    based on Islamic principles as they understand them
    A lot like a local Thai immigration office.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I await the requisite apology, from the predictable boneheads.
    It is good to be able to attend university classes, but to get there one has to first attend lower levels of education, and it they make it hard to do that, they consequently make it hard to attend university level .

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    Taliban forbid Afghan women from catching flights without male relatives in return to hardline laws

    The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from boarding flights unless accompanied by a male relative, aviation officials told AFP.

    The latest restriction on women follows Wednesday's shutdown of all girls' secondary schools just hours after they were allowed to reopen for the first time since the hardline Islamists seized power in August.

    Two officials from Afghanistan's Ariana Afghan airline and Kam Air said late on Sunday that the Taliban had ordered t ..

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