It’s been 1,000 days since the Taliban barred girls from secondary education. In Afghanistan today, a girl’s education in school ends after 6th grade.
No other country in the world puts such a limit on the education of girls. When Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 ushered in the return of the Taliban’s takeover, these draconian measures in the name of their religious principles were predicted. The Taliban promised to be kinder, gentler rulers with extreme Islamic law in place. The idiotic Biden administration repeated the promises as though they believed them. Biden and Blinken probably did. They are dangerously inept.
Everything in Afghanistan quickly went back to the bad old days. Women are required to wear hijabs again, with most covered from head to toe in black burkas. Women are not treated as human beings with dignity and rights. They are not allowed…
