Summary
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned the Taliban’s treatment of women at a Pakistan summit on girls’ education in Muslim communities, stating, “The Taliban do not see women as human beings.”
She criticized their policies banning Afghan girls from education and work as “gender apartheid” and un-Islamic.
Afghanistan is the only country banning education for girls beyond grade six, affecting 1.5 million girls.
Malala urged Muslim leaders to challenge these practices and advocate for girls’ education globally.
The Taliban declined to attend or comment.
Their right to resist colonial oppression, yes.
How else do you want them to obtain human rights? Because anyone paying attention can tell that Israel will not give them any unless forced to. The Palestinian nonviolent resistance project ended up as the monstrosity known as the Palestinian Authority. Israel actively killed the only major peaceful resistance group in Palestine; what do you expect Palestinians to do?
Yes, and? Nelson Mandela’s ANC fought until the Apartheid was wiped off the face off the Earth too.
I mean I guess yeah. How that’ll work out will depend on what form the conclusion of this conflict takes, but colonial peoples do tend to face this problem when their rule ends.
Okay and? Even if the genocide you’re assuming will happen was likely (which it isn’t), why is the hypothetical genocide of Jews more important than the real, ongoing genocide of Palestinians?
If First Nations Americas started an intifada like on oct 7 against my neighbors, would you disagree with their strategy and disavow the people who claimed responsibility, or would you defend them?
You haven’t answered my question: What do you expect Palestinians to do?
First Oct 7th wasn’t an Intifada, but that aside: Native Americans got human rights via the Civil Rights Act; they don’t live in Apartheid and they aren’t being expelled from their lands. I sure wouldn’t blame them for rioting though.
Hamas rejected peace treaties. Dismissed them as racist. I don’t disagree and wouldn’t disagree with First Nations people saying and doing the exact same thing by rejecting the peace treaties. If First Nation people did what Hamas did and rejected the peace treaties, would you agree with them, then? If peace treaties can be determined null and void after the fact, why would you be against an Oct 7 style attack by a very rightful and angry First Nations group? Again, I say this because this is how I rack with my ideology. I believe in the right of free people and would even understand legitimately the idea behind it. I just cannot and will not condone the attack. I am incapable of condoning it. I cannot and will not condone any group of human beings who takes responsibility for what happened on Oct 7. I don’t support Israel, it just makes it impossible for me to support Hamas, it was inexcusable. I cannot imagine that happening to my neighbors. I love my neighbors. Those were happy people who got slaughtered for wanting a happy life. My neighbors immigrated here, I’m weeping for the day Trump is deporting them, but some people are happy. My neighbors are also born and raised here, I’d weep for the day anyone decided they were colonizers. It doesn’t make it right.
Neither would I. I wouldn’t blame them for wanting their land back either with violence. I just would never condone that level of violence no matter the reason, not on innocent life, even innocent colonizers like my neighbors are.
Oh that’s what you’re talking about. You should say that sooner. Anyway you should note that October 7th had clear military goals (66% of Israeli casualties were combatants); nobody here is supporting the actual killing civilians part. Hell, I don’t think there are any straight up Hamas supporters here specifically because they’re too willy nilly about killing civilians (and because of the whole theocratic dictatorship thing).