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A New Kind of Feminism Takes Hold in Afghanistan ‘People Need to be Educated in Values’ of Islam

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, religion on 14 July 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Arab, Bangladesh, civil service commission, Indonesia, Michael Gerson, Rahela Hashim Sidiqi, San Francisco Chronicle, SFgate, Shia Family Law with View Comments

One thing I find really interesting about the women’s statements is that they challenge the Taliban notion that women cannot be educated by pointing to other Muslim nations where neither women nor men are denied the right to education. So why then, in Afghanistan, a nation that used to produce female professionals before the endless [...]