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Summary

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned the Taliban’s treatment of women at a Pakistan summit on girls’ education in Muslim communities, stating, "The Taliban do not see women as human beings."

She criticized their policies banning Afghan girls from education and work as "gender apartheid" and un-Islamic.

Afghanistan is the only country banning education for girls beyond grade six, affecting 1.5 million girls.

Malala urged Muslim leaders to challenge these practices and advocate for girls' education globally.

The Taliban declined to attend or comment.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine comparing the situation in the united States, where women have favorable hiring and scholarship status, to the Taliban state where women are literally property and not allowed to get a job or education under threat of death. Like actual death, not someone online telling you something rude.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

Who compared the situation? This is about comparable view of women.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We just elected in a man and party that want us to be the Christian version of the taliban.

There's also many areas where women are treated the same in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Nah fam. I'm a woman living in Texas and I'll take fighting for abortion rights and closing the wage gap here in the US over living in Afghanistan any day of the week.

Our situations are not even close, and I think you know that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

What part of the USA disallows women the right to go to high school or to speak in public?

I hate the direction the U.S. is going as much as any sane person but it’s a disservice to everyone to say that women in Afghanistan and women in the U.S. are treated the same.