Sunday, January 12, 2025
Islamabad (UrduPoint News International/ Pakistan Point News - DW Urdu - 12th January 2025) Malala Yousafzai addressed the participants of the meeting on Sunday, January 12, on the second day of the global summit on girls' education in the Islamic world, which began on Saturday in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
Malala Yousafzai's speech
Ministers and education officials from Muslim-majority countries participated in the two-day conference on girls' education in the Islamic world, organized by the Muslim World League, in Islamabad.
In her address to the participants of the meeting, 27-year-old Malala Yousafzai said, "As Muslim leaders, now is the time for you all to raise your voice, use your power. You can show real leadership.
You can show the true face of Islam." Malala urged Muslim leaders not to "legitimate" the Afghan Taliban government and to demonstrate their true leadership by opposing the Taliban's restrictions on women and girls' education.
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“Put simply, the Taliban do not see women as human beings. They cloak their crimes in cultural and religious guise,” Malala Yousafzai told the conference participants. “Their mission is clear: they want to eliminate women and girls from every aspect of public life and to wipe them out of society,” Malala Yousafzai added of the Afghan Taliban.
‘‘‘Gender Bias’’ in Afghanistan and Malala’s Campaign
Malala Yousafzai was shot in the face by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012 when she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, an incident that occurred because of her ongoing campaign for women’s rights to education. Malala’s dedication to continuing her campaign led to her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and she has since become a global advocate for women’s and girls’ rights to education.
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After returning to power in 2021, the Taliban government implemented strict interpretations of Islamic law, which the United Nations has called “sex discrimination or gender discrimination.” The restrictions imposed by the Taliban have deprived women and girls in Afghanistan of secondary school and university education, as well as many government jobs, and have isolated them from many aspects of public life.
Pakistan’s Education Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on Saturday that delegates from Afghanistan’s Taliban government did not attend a two-day conference on girls’ education in the Islamic world held in Islamabad despite being invited.
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Why is international opinion divided?
While the Taliban regime’s restrictions on girls and women are hotly debated in the international community, nations are divided on how to engage with the rulers in Kabul on the issue.
Some countries say the Taliban government should be isolated from the diplomatic community until it changes its stance on women's rights, while others prefer to talk to them to change their extremist policies.
No country has officially recognized the Taliban government, but several regional governments have begun talks with the Kabul government on trade and security issues.
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