But remember: all the most learned Western analysts continue to assure us that they have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam!
“Taliban moves to entrench policy banning women from HE,” by Shadi Khan Saif, University World News, September 7, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Taliban-run higher education ministry in Afghanistan recently announced that at least 850 new teachers were appointed in public universities last year, including 550 teachers for ‘Islamic culture’. Meanwhile, the first male-only university entrance exam results have been announced – in a move that shows clear defiance of internal and international calls to end the exclusion of women and girls in education.
During a high-profile ceremony in the presence of top Taliban leaders on 4 September at the Government Information and Media Centre in Kabul, the results of the university entrance exam, known as the ‘Kankor’, were announced for those winning seats in public universities. This year’s Kankor was the second to be held since the Taliban came to power in August 2021 but the first to be all male.
Female students were allowed to participate in the 2022 Kankor, and mainly consisted of those who completed high school before the Taliban came to power. However, they were later restricted to certain subjects in universities, deprived of the right to apply for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects.
Within weeks of the beginning of the 2022 academic year, all female students across the country were directed to quit and stay at home.
This year there was no pretence of women being equal and having the right to study when the results of the all-male 2023 Kankor were announced.
Ignoring the absence of thousands of female candidates for the first time under the Taliban’s second rule, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, higher education minister, declared the number of applicants to universities had “increased” and efforts had been made to ensure that no one was left without results….
Officials of the Higher Education Ministry said while presenting their annual report that hundreds of Islamic culture teachers had been hired at university.
Deputy Minister for Higher Education Lutfullah Khairkhwah told a press conference in Kabul that religious sciences were previously taught less widely in universities. However, with the increase in credits on Islamic culture in the curriculum, the number of teachers has also increased, according to Khairkhwah.
“We have 6,000 teacher positions vacant in Afghanistan, of which 200 to 250 teachers have gone abroad, and recently we have recruited 850 teachers to government universities, of which 550 are the Islamic culture teachers,” he said….
FYI says
The taliban follow the sunnah of muhammed,the most obvious false prophet in world History{even by his own admission al tabari 6:111 but muslims deny that}a man who said the world would end within 100 years of his time on earth.Amazingly, we are still here in the 21st century.
They follow an impersonator of the Biblical God{he claims he gave the Torah to Moses koran 2:87} ,allah, {who is not even omniscient!} and the koran ,a fraud of a holy book which is scientifically,Theologically,Historically and logically wrong.
And they cannot{..or do not…} want to figure it out.
They could do with some Higher Education themselves or else follow allah’s advice in koran 10:94 to check the sources{they won’t do that of course}So they will remain in their primitive cult in ignorance.
But they should not deny others freedom to educate themselves.
Nick says
Can you refute the arguments of lying muslim Shahid bolsen
tim gallagher says
“Islamic culture”. You have to joking. ” Islamic barbarity” would have to what that course would be all about. Anything cultured or civilised and islam do not go together and they never will. The Taliban are nothing but a bunch of knuckle dragging throwbacks that show that some of the human race are evolving backwards towards complete primitiveness.
Gurek says
I keep thinking that even the Stone age cavemen were more civilised and morally superior to these Muslims of Taliban types. Stone age monuments like Stonehenge seems far spiritual and better to me than the islamic architectures which are stolen from Christians. Also Muslim women are forced to cover all of their body, even the face and eyes. I guess none of this resembles the acient Stone age women. It’s sad to see what islam does to humankind. It’s more like an ideology created by alien extraterrestrials or demons.
Gourdhead says
The picture would be laughable if it were not so serious. The first thought that came to mind when I saw it was – what a filthy-looking bunch.
Bexarkat says
Isn’t Islamic Culture an oxymoron?