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Some girls return to school as Taliban seek to manage image

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By Elise Blanchard and James Edgar

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Assuming, for a moment, that any of the Taliban pronouncements in this article are real, it is now known that most (if not all) of these children won't have anyone to teach them . . . at least any time soon.

Same day this horse & donkey show was going on, the Taliban's acting minister of higher education (Abdul Baqi Haqqani ) announced that the Taliban will not recognise those who graduated from high school between 2000-2020, as they "will be of no use" to us.

Further he announced that the Taliban decided to remove all teachers appointed during the anti-Taliban era and hire new teachers who will enlighten students with the "values that are useful in the country."

This follows last week's announcements that they are refusing to acknowledge the credibility of any PhD and Master's degree holders in any modern studies.

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/taliban-to-not-acknowledge-high-school-diplomas-between-2000-2020-in-afghanistan.html , quoting TOLO reporting.

No teachers? No problem! But here are the students!

A really fine example of how one Taliban ministry doesn't know what the others are doing.

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Girls are going to high schools in Khan Abad, Kunduz Province," tweeted Doha-based Shaheen,

The taliban in Doha and the ones in Kabul are different.

One is lying to build an international image, the other are medieval minded savages bent on quenching their thirst for murder.

I don’t have much hope for Afghanistan!!!

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The taliban in Doha and the ones in Kabul are different.

One is lying to build an international image, the other are medieval minded savages bent on quenching their thirst for murder.

This in a real sense highlights the deep divisions within the Taliban. The organization is ripe to splinter into competing factions. An example is an order given to soldiers a couple of days ago to leave the homes and autos they seized as spoils of war. It isn't being obeyed. Women teachers and students in some cities are going back to work, teach and study, as the case may be, more or less daring the Taliban to do something about it. There are videos of old women shoving Taliban soldiers after refusing their orders and the soldiers are not used to this. Out of respect for their elders they don't shoot but some of these old women are not shy about hitting them. There Tajiks are mobilizing their forces on the Afghan border. About a quarter of the Afghan population are ethnic Tajiks and the Tajik government is accusing the Taliban of abusing their people in northern Afghanistan. Much can and will happen in the coming months to stir the pot.

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This new generation of the Taliban is armed with smart phones and technology will transform their society like it did the countries of communist Europe. Meanwhile, the people of Afghanistan will have to wait for their lands to be born into a real country. The birth pangs of an Afghan united federation will continue for some time to come, but the Afghanis, like the rest of us, must continue to live in hope. Education and knowledge will eventually triumph over ignorance and superstition.

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Very little past indicators to believe that the Taliban will embrace modern science and education in place of superstition and ignorance. When you base all your views on a book that's around 1400 years old, all your gonna have is ignorance and superstition.....

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Very little past indicators to believe that the Taliban will embrace modern science and education in place of superstition and ignorance. When you base all your views on a book that's around 1400 years old, all your gonna have is ignorance and superstition.....

Your grounds for pessimism are understandable, but I've always found hope to be the best salve for the painful horrors stemming from human ignorance because our world is governed by inexorable universal laws of perennial change and transformation that puny mankind may not defy.

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The real question or problem is, what they are taught now at all those higher schools. And my personal guess is, that everything taught after the basic ABC or let’s say for there Alif, Lam, Min or so, is not so much of an education as we would define, require and welcome it. lol My recommendation would more be something like to additionally close also the boy’s schools. Or does the world need new generations of skilled terrorists, bomb constructors, djihad mothers with eight children each , all religiously brainwashed and put in swear against the unbelievers, or for example university jurists perfect in those Sharia justice rulings? Not really and necessarily needed, the output of their education system over there, believe me…

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It is NOT going to be that easy Taliban! We have seen you before and know what you are, we will not be fooled!

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This new generation of the Taliban is armed with smart phones and technology will transform their society like it did the countries of communist Europe.

I don't know about that. Smart phones and technology only seem to be accelerating a descent into backwardness, tribalism, the rejection of scientific knowledge and its replacement with wild unfounded conspiracies in the US and too many European nations.

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