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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.

  • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    There’s plenty to condemn Hamas for without making stuff up. Hamas has been endorsed a two state solution for 20 years now and said they don’t have anything against Jews, their beef is with Zionists stealing more of their land daily. And it’s not like Netanyahu has don’t much better; his party’s charter says a one state solution from the river to the sea and Netanyahu is unable to name a single Palestinian he likes even though the anti-Hamas factions have offered to work with him and he refuses.

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      23 hours ago

      I’d love any source on Hamas’ peaceful intentions towards the Jewish people

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            22 hours ago

            Yeah what do you find objectionable in this? Nowhere does it deny the right of Palestine’s non-Palestinian Arab residents to stay there.

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              21 hours ago

              Their self-claimed right to religious jihad? The spreading of an Islamic ethnic state? Nothing wrong the the spread of Islam or the Arabic ethnicity, but i disagree on violent means (jihad and by establishing a state). Do you?

              Their end goal is to jihad Israel until they are gone, wiped off the earth. We’ll just assume the Jews will be safe, I guess? I don’t like the state of Israel, but I don’t want the world to lose the Jewish people, and I don’t trust Hamas to be the protector of so many Jews. I have seen zero evidence that Hamas will be willing to risk their lives to protect and save the lives of innocent Jewish people. Again, I just want a better option than Hamas for the people of Gaza and the West Bank. I want a better option for the people of Israel/Judea too, than their current state.

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                21 hours ago

                I don’t like the state of Israel, but I don’t want the world to lose the Jewish people

                Well then you’re in luck, because more Jews live outside of Israel than live in it. Myself being one of them. Fuck Israel, it doesn’t represent me and suggesting it does is, frankly, bigoted.

                Israel is not the Jewish State even if it wants to say it is. That claim benefits two groups:

                1. The Israeli government
                2. Evangelicals who believe that all of the Jews in the entire world have to be forcibly deported to Israel in order for Jesus to return.

                And meanwhile, that sentiment increases antisemitism, it doesn’t reduce it. Israel makes the world less safe for me and my family. It does not protect me. It never has, it never will.

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                  20 hours ago

                  Is Israel Zionist then? If it is Zionist, it would be a Jewish state. Hamas claims it is Zionist. They claim they are a Jewish government, and because their government is Jewish, it should be destroyed. They changed their tune from “the Jews must be eliminated” to “the Jewish state must be eliminated” in 2017. Are they a Jewish state as Hamas claims, or are they not as you claim?

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                    I’m sorry, are you under the offensively ridiculous impression that Zionism is some sort of inherent part of a Jewish identity? Because it absolutely is not.

                    Yes they are Zionists, meaning they claim Israel is the Jewish State. So what? They can claim whatever they want. America claims it’s the Land of the Free and it has the world’s highest incarceration rate.

                    Also, and this may come as a shock to you, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither democratic nor a republic. Apparently governments say things about themselves that aren’t actually true. Who’da thunk?

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                21 hours ago

                Their self-claimed right to religious jihad?

                Their right to resist colonial oppression, yes.

                but i disagree on violent means (jihad and by establishing a state).

                How else do you want them to obtain human rights? Because anyone paying attention can tell that Israel will not give them any unless forced to. The Palestinian nonviolent resistance project ended up as the monstrosity known as the Palestinian Authority. Israel actively killed the only major peaceful resistance group in Palestine; what do you expect Palestinians to do?

                Their end goal is to jihad Israel until they are gone, wiped off the earth.

                Yes, and? Nelson Mandela’s ANC fought until the Apartheid was wiped off the face off the Earth too.

                We’ll just assume the Jews will be safe, I guess?

                I mean I guess yeah. How that’ll work out will depend on what form the conclusion of this conflict takes, but colonial peoples do tend to face this problem when their rule ends.

                but I don’t want the world to lose the Jewish people

                Okay and? Even if the genocide you’re assuming will happen was likely (which it isn’t), why is the hypothetical genocide of Jews more important than the real, ongoing genocide of Palestinians?

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                  21 hours ago

                  If First Nations Americas started an intifada like on oct 7 against my neighbors, would you disagree with their strategy and disavow the people who claimed responsibility, or would you defend them?

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                    20 hours ago

                    You haven’t answered my question: What do you expect Palestinians to do?

                    If First Nations Americas started an intifada like on oct 7 against my neighbors, would you disagree with their strategy and disavow the people who claimed responsibility, or would you defend them?

                    First Oct 7th wasn’t an Intifada, but that aside: Native Americans got human rights via the Civil Rights Act; they don’t live in Apartheid and they aren’t being expelled from their lands. I sure wouldn’t blame them for rioting though.