In All Islamic Countries, Women Make Efforts to Get an Education, Why Would the Taliban Want to Take Education Away from Afghan Women? In the 21st Century, only Those Nations Will Survive Which are Ahead in Education

In All Islamic Countries, Women Make Efforts to Get an Education, Why  Would the Taliban Want to Take Education Away from Afghan Women? In the 21^st Century, only Those Nations Will Survive Which are Ahead in Education

Mujeeb Khan   

 

 

 

Afghan University Students 1967

 

Kabul, University Students early 1970s

 

  They were close allies of the United States in the war against the Soviet Union and were called the Afghan Mujahideen. After the fall of the Soviet empire, the United States abandoned them. And then they became the Taliban, and ten years later the end of the Afghan war, the United States declared the Taliban as its enemy. And declared war to remove them from power and wipe them out of Afghanistan. America made this decision after 9/11. For twenty years, the United States and NATO countries fought a war to wipe the Taliban out of Afghanistan. Taliban former Mujahideen who were trained by the US in Urban Guerrilla Warfare and the US and NATO forces were fighting them. And eventually, like the Soviet forces, they had to admit defeat and leave Afghanistan. Now, these are the same Afghan Mujahideen who were close allies of America forty years ago, and Vice President George H. Bush said, “They are just, and God is with them.” And today these Mujahideen-turned-Taliban rulers have banned women’s education. the United States and the western countries of NATO were in Afghanistan for twenty years, but they could not make the Taliban citizens of the 21st century, and this was also the failure of the United States. 

  The Afghan policy of the United States was short-sighted for forty years, and the narrow objective was to give the Soviet Union military defeat. America had no knowledge about Afghan society and culture. Afghanistan was a beautiful country. Kabul, Jalalabad, and Kandahar were centers of literature, culture, progressive intellectual, writers, and poets. Seeing the atmosphere of Kabul University, looked like a European university. Soviet forces faced no resistance in urban Afghanistan. The rural Afghan population was strictly religious. It was Pakistan and the CIA when they saw that Soviet forces were gaining ground in urban Afghanistan, and dropped leaflets in the rural areas where the communist forces had entered Afghanistan. And they are making Afghanistan a communist country and destroying mosques. They were inspired to wage jihad. The rural people are simple and straightforward, they were horrified to read the leaflets that were in the local language. They fled from villages with their families and came to Pakistan. Afghan Mujahideen trained and armed in CIA training camps in Pakistan. After receiving training from CIA training camps, Mujahideen started attacking cities. Afraid of this situation, progressives, enlightened, moderate, intellectuals left the cities with their families for Europe and US. After the fall of the Soviet Empire, the United States handed over Afghanistan to the Mujahideen. The US spent millions of dollars on training and arming the Mujahideen, and with these weapons and American training, Mujahideen had now become the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban had turned Afghanistan into a rural Afghanistan. Urban women are forced to live like rural women.

  After 9/11, the Bush administration decided to take military action against the Taliban government and to end Taliban rule. The Taliban had sheltered Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan who had attacked the United States. The United States spent ten times more on the war to oust the Taliban than it did on the battle to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviet forces.  The CIA gave briefcases full of dollars to Afghan warlords to finish the Taliban. The Taliban was removed from power, but they were not finished. First, the ten-year war to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviet forces and then the twenty-year war against the Taliban in Afghanistan cost nearly two trillion dollars. But the tragedy is that the Afghan people do not have freedom. The doors of education have closed to Afghan women. Afghanistan today is not much different from the first Taliban rule. The concept of urban society in Afghanistan has been decimated.