Afghanistan Fighting Women: EDUCATION – WORK – FREEDOM!+ Video clips

By Hasse-Nima Golkar/

After the re-establishment of the fascist Islamic rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, all the girls’ schools were closed, and they were forbidden to continue their education. And now, the time has come to ban young girls and women from continuing their education in colleges.

According to a notice issued by the “Ministry of Higher Education” dated December 21, 2022, women and girls are banned from studying in public and private universities “until further notice.” They are not allowed to enter these places of educational institutions.

In the Taliban’s Islam, women’s only appropriate place is in the domestic cage, and they are denied participation in the social-economic-political-cultural affairs for not being able to determine their own human and free rights. Based on this, yesterday and today (December 21 and 22, 2022), the fighting women came out spontaneously as before in the streets of the capital Kabul, Takhar, and Nangarhar, shouting slogans against the patriarchs and the sleepy world opinion:

– DON’T BE AFRAID, DON’T BE AFRAID, WE ARE ALL TOGETHER!

– WE BREAK OPPRESSION AND INJUSTICE!

– FREEDOM, EQUALITY!

In protest against this order, a number of university teachers have resigned, and in addition, the slogan and hashtag “#education_for_all_or_no_one” was followed on social media and in the street protests. According to the latest reports on social media, so far five protesting women and three journalists have been arrested by the Taliban police.

The extremist Islamic Taliban first took power from 1996 to 2001 under the name “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”, controlling nearly three-quarters of the country. After the US military attack and occupation of Afghanistan in full cooperation with NATO, the Taliban lost their power. But after the fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021, with the support of the United States and NATO, with China and Russia’s green light, the Taliban regained power. They thus stretched their dark shadow for the second time over Afghanistan. The Taliban have committed several brutal massacres, especially against the Hazara people, most of whom are Shiites. Such crimes continue against all other people of war-torn Afghanistan as well.