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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] 79 points 5 months ago (5 children)

ahhh the wonders of religion. humanity's self-induced blight

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Why do you jump to religion and not simply conclude that the Talibans are massive incels? You do realize that out of two billion Muslims only the Taliban are doing this shit right? Malala is calling them un-Islamic for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

religion is in itself a ridiculous premise, and the type is largely irrelevant (islam/christianity).

they are a disease that should be eradicated. humanity will never move forward with such archaic ideas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It also specifically should be mentioned how Judaism is a disease. People think Judaism is somehow "better" or "more tolerant", as a Jewish person myself I can personally confirm that Judaism is just as capable of oppression and violent hatred (just look at Ben Gvir).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ok will you be consistent and mention the same of other ideologies that have wreaked havoc? By the way you associate things you have to acknowledge the death and destruction brought upon by secular and atheist states from colonialism to modern day imperialism.

I'll list some examples of states that caused a lot of death and destruction:

  • USSR a secular atheist state that killed millions and committed ethnic cleansing. (One ex. Is what they did in Kazakhstan)

  • USA and France and their invasion of Vietnam

  • All that was done by secular states in the colonial era

  • all that is being currently by secular states in the neo colonial era

  • US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Russian invasion of Ukraine

I can keep going.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Because their religion literally teaches them to treat women like shit?

And it’s not only them doing this. They all have shit women’s rights records.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

They all have shit women’s rights records.

I'm sure this is a well-researched claim and not something you just made up, but let's not get into that.

And it’s not only them doing this.

Literally no Muslim country in the world is as insane about oppressing women as Taliban Afghanistan. And that includes even the notorious ones like Iran. Nothing in Islamic beliefs or the behavior of Muslim countries resembles the ridiculousness of Taliban policies, and you should learn at least that before you shit on other people's cultures.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Look at Rojava in Kurdistan (you did say "all" Muslims, no taking that back). It's like saying the Christian religion is the reason the crusades were bad and not because they were violent men with horrible ideas. Innocent people worship innocently. I don't like jihadists or Islamic nationalists or caliphates either, but I at least don't attribute that to Muslims entirely, just the stupid ones. Most people don't understand the difference between those who just want to be Muslim (look at Islamic people in Kurdistan and, yes, even Israel who has many religions living together relatively peacefully to the US) and those who want jihad and intifadas and Islam-directed oppression via the state. That's because you believed the propaganda.

There are religious nuts in Islam. They are jihadists. Hamas was the suicide bombers back in the 2000s. The taliban, ISIS, ISIL, Al-queda, the Houthis, Al-Shabaab, etc etc. They are all Islamic nationalists. It's like seeing an American and assuming they're transphobic just because MAGA is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It is very clearly not only taliban. Extremist groups are, shocker, more extreme. Muslim religion and culture tends to treat muslim women as second class citizens. The more western the muslim country, the more they treat women like equals. Christians treat lbtq communty like shit and you wouldn't say americans in 70s were extremist christian nutjobs as it was standard to be homophobic, part of the culture.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

Says right there it is opposite of what the religion teaches?!

At least wait until there is an article that confirms your bias to spit your poison, dude.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Religion is not what religion teaches.

Look what they do, not what they say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I look at neither. I look at what the scripture says.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Traffic regulations tell drivers to stop at red lights. Dude sees some cars run red lights and goes on hating traffic regulations saying they encourage running red lights. Random guy points out the absurdity but gets called a fool.

Well, what can I say? Have a nice day, dude.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

then you should already know it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

well, it isn't, so that's that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can assure you that misogyny is not a result of religion, religion is just used to excuse it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

And because it's excused it's allowed to exist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It’s the sickness and its own cure! Just like other drug addictions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, but other ideologies which have been destructive are not? I hope you'll be consistent in pointing out the secular states of today continue to wreak havoc, death and destruction in the middle east and Africa. (Let's not forget colonialism)

And the secular atheist communist states of Russia and China, those didn't commit ethnic cleansing and killed millions of people?

I'll just mention the destruction that the USSR brought to Kazakhstan that lingers to this day as an example.