Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to challenge policies restricting girls and women's schooling.

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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m sorry, are you under the offensively ridiculous impression that Zionism is some sort of inherent part of a Jewish identity? Because it absolutely is not.

    Yes they are Zionists, meaning they claim Israel is the Jewish State. So what? They can claim whatever they want. America claims it’s the Land of the Free and it has the world’s highest incarceration rate.

    Also, and this may come as a shock to you, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither democratic nor a republic. Apparently governments say things about themselves that aren’t actually true. Who’da thunk?

    • sean@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      I’m simply asking who is right: Hamas or you? You said Israel is not a Jewish state, Hamas says it is. Hamas acknowledges and agrees that it is a Jewish state, but your comment said it was not at all. I am just confused on who to believe, I want to assume both of you are right but that can’t be true from how I’m seeing it?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        1 day ago

        You are not answering any of my questions and yet you keep expecting me to answer yours. And yours seem to be implying that I somehow support Hamas, something I think I’ve already been pretty clear about not doing. So why would I care how Hamas defines Israel?

        I have been trying to explain it to you more tactfully, but I will be blunt: you are being a bigot against Jews. Worse, you are being a condescending bigot against us by think you speak on our behalf.

        As a Jew, I’m fucking sick of that shit.

        And as a moderator, I’m telling you this stops now.

        • sean@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          13·
          1 day ago

          My goodness I’m literally autistic and I am legitimately fucking confused because I am just wondering if Israel is legitimately secular or not because I literally don’t have your perspective and you are, unfortunately, confusing my autistic communication style for bigotry. You see how I’m as confused as you are, no? I’m literally asking questions without assuming anything. I am wondering honestly holy shit. I do not know if Israel is legitimately Jewish or secular, I assume it’s secular this entire time and just was very Jewish, much like the US not not literally a Christian nation.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            41·
            1 day ago

            And I am LITERALLY telling you that it is LITERALLY not “The Jewish State” because LITERALLY more Jews LITERALLY do not LITERALLY live in Israel than LITERALLY live in Israel no matter what their government or Hamas LITERALLY say.

            If next week, Mexico declared itself as “The Christian State,” would you just accept that? That it’s the nation for Christians and nowhere else? I would fucking hope not.

            I am a Jew.

            I am not Israeli.

            I never want to be Israeli.

            I don’t even want to set foot in the fucking country.

            SO STOP ASSOCIATING ME WITH THEM.

            That should be all you need to LITERALLY know.

            • sean@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              13·
              1 day ago

              Alright, I’ll agree that Israel is not the Jewish state. My understanding of “Zionism” is that it attempts to establish one, though, is that true? As in, Israel does want to be a Jewish ethnostate? We agree it is not representative of all Jews, 100% agreement there. It may still want that, no? I’m not sure what a Jewish state even is, I’m not at all familiar with the customs. So is Israel actually wanting to be Jewish in its government (again, I don’t know it well), or is that just a claim that Hamas is saying? I don’t actually associate Israel with Jewish sentiment mind you, never have never will. I’m just confused as to what even is the Zionism that Hamas hates

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                31·
                1 day ago

                I don’t actually associate Israel with Jewish sentiment mind you, never have never will.

                You’ve LITERALLY been doing that this entire time. For example-

                If it is Zionist, it would be a Jewish state.

                No it would not. It would be a Zionist state.

                This is the last time you get to be told Zionism and Judaism are in no way the same thing.

                I have been more than lenient with you and I am very tired of you expecting the JEW WHO IS NOT AN ISRAELI to explain what ISRAEL and HAMAS thinks as if I have some sort inside knowledge… AS IF I WERE A FUCKING ISRAELI.

                • sean@lemmy.wtfEnglish
                  13·
                  1 day ago

                  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

                  I’m so confused… I’m just trying to understand what Zionism is here… it’s a colonial project to bring about a Jewish state according to Wikipedia. I understand, could be lying. I have in Israeli friend and a Turkish friend I’ll get their opinion on, but from what I am getting is that you disagree with the claim of the wiki article?