I know this has been asked before. What do feminists think of the war in Afghanistan?
Over the past year altogether 600 girls’ schools around the country have been wholly or partly destroyed by terrorists, while none of the boys’ schools have been touched, Sletten says.
Education is key to freedom, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, or the United States. And I’m not talking about pieces of paper which claim you learned something. I mean education, which goes far beyond simple classroom study.
Having schools open to all in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, instead of the madrassas which currently offer the only classroom education affordable to people in that region, is the only way things will ever change.