Tunisian Ons Jabeur Makes History as 1st Arab Woman to Qualify To Wimbledon’s Last Four
New
Age Islam News Bureau
06
July 2022
• Sania Mirza Two Wins Away From Elusive Title, the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles
• Legal,
Yet Virtually Banned: Turkish Women Denied Right To Free, Safe Abortions
• Terrorists
Kidnapping Hundreds of Nigerian Women, Using Them as Sex Slaves
• Islam
Ensures Rights to Women, Says Lollywood Star Armeena Khan
• Saudi
Arabia Deploys More Than 1,380 Nurses at Holy Site Hospitals To Serve Pilgrims
• Ex-Afghan
President Urges Immediate Return Of Girls to School To Help Economic Future
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/tunisian-ons-wimbledon-sania/d/127418
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Tunisian
Ons Jabeur Makes History as 1st Arab Woman to Qualify To Wimbledon’s Last Four
Tunisia’s
Ons Jabeur returns to Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic in a women’s singles
quarterfinal match on day nine of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London
on Tuesday. (AP)
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July
05, 2022
LONDON:
Ons Jabeur has become the first Arab woman to book a place in the last-four of
a Grand Slam after the world number two, of Tunisia, defeated Marie Bouzkova on
Tuesday.
Meanwhile,
defending champion Novak Djokovic battled back from two sets down to reach an
11th Wimbledon semifinal.
Djokovic
triumphed 5-7, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 over Italian 10th seed Jannik Sinner,
recovering from a two-set deficit for the seventh time in his career.
The
Serb will face Britain’s Cameron Norrie, who also needed five sets to get past
David Goffin of Belgium, 3-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5.
As
for Jabeur, she defeated Bouzkova 3-6, 6-1, 6-1.
She
will next face close friend and mother-of-two Tatjana Maria, who defeated
fellow unseeded German Jule Niemeier, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.
Djokovic,
a 20-time major winner, said he had to give himself a talking to after going
two sets down.
“The
first two sets compared to the next three were like two different matches,” he
said.
“But
at the end of the second set I took a toilet break, gave myself a little pep
talk, tried to gather my thoughts.
“I
broke early in the third set. I saw a little bit of doubt start to come into
his movement. I have many years’ experience of playing on these courts and
coping with the pressure.”
Djokovic
is no stranger to Grand Slam adversity, having twice come back from two sets
down as recently as last year’s French Open.
The
second of those stunning recoveries was in the final against Stefanos
Tsitsipas.
After
Tuesday’s bathroom break, he returned to court and grabbed a break in the
fourth game of the third set as he trimmed his quarter-final deficit.
In
control, the 35-year-old levelled the tie with a double break in the fourth set
as Sinner took a worrying tumble on his ankle scrambling to the Center Court
net.
Djokovic
carved out two more breaks in the decider, the second off the back of a
stunning, cross-court backhand on the stretch to go to 5-2 before calmly
serving it out.
“I
played well but he raised his level,” said Sinner, who had never won a
grass-court match before Wimbledon.
Ninth
seed Norrie got the better of 58th-ranked Goffin to make the last four of a
Slam for the first time.
Left-hander
Norrie said he was struggling at the start of the match, admitting he was
forced to dig deep.
“It
was all just adrenaline, using my legs and trying to put the ball in the court,
and it’s great to get over the line,” he said.
Norrie,
the first British man to reach the Wimbledon semifinals since Andy Murray in
2016, said he was going to “take it” to top seed Djokovic.
The
result was tough on Goffin, who made the quarter-finals on his last appearance
at Wimbledon in 2019.
The
Belgian hit more winners, 49 to 38, and won more points, with his 151 trumping
Norrie’s 145.
Jabeur,
the only top 15 seed to make the last-eight in the women’s tournament, battled
back to see off 66th-ranked Bouzkova of the Czech Republic.
The
Tunisian was broken twice as she lost the first set but lost only two games
after that to power to a 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 win.
Jabeur
described semifinal opponent Maria as her “barbecue buddy.”
“It’s
going to be tough to play her, she is a great friend,” she said.
“I
am really happy she is in a semifinal — look at her now, she is in a semifinal
after having two babies. It is an amazing story.”
Maria,
34, who saved two match points in the previous round against Jelena Ostapenko,
made her Grand Slam debut in 2007 and had never progressed beyond the third
round at a major before this year’s Wimbledon.
“I
have goosebumps everywhere,” said the world number 103, who returned from
maternity leave just under a year ago.
“My
two little girls, it’s a dream to live this with my family, to live this with
my two girls. Almost one year ago I gave birth, it’s crazy.”
The
remaining quarter-finals take place on Wednesday.
In
the men’s event, Rafael Nadal faces Taylor Fritz of the United States while
Nick Kyrgios takes on Chile’s Cristian Garin.
Simona
Halep, the 2019 women’s champion, tackles Amanda Anisimova of the United States
while Ajla Tomljanovic takes on big-serving Elena Rybakina.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2117131/sport
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Sania
Mirza Two Wins Away From Elusive Title, the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles
File
image of Sania Mirza | AFP
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Elora
Sen
06.07.22
The
2022 season is set to be Sania Mirza’s last and for the Indian icon, nothing
would be more satisfying than getting her hand on a trophy that has eluded her
till now — the Wimbledon mixed doubles title.
And
she is just two matches away.
With
six grand slam titles (three in women’s doubles and three in mixed) under her
belt, Sania would look to complete a career grand slam.
In
mixed, she has already won the Australian Open (2009), French Open (2012) and
the US Open (2014). In women’s doubles, the French Open has stayed out of her
grasp.
She
had last played in a grand slam final in 2016, winning the Australian Open
women’s doubles final.
On
Monday, Sania, with her Croatian partner Mate Pavic, made it to the semi-finals
at SW19. Seeded sixth, the Indo-Croatian duo beat the fourth-seeded
Australian-Canadian pair of John Peers and Gabriela Dabrowski 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in
one hour and 41 minutes at the All England Club.
The
35-year-old Sania last played in a grand slam semi-finals at the 2017 US Open
in the women’s doubles, where she lost. It will also be her maiden appearance
in the Wimbledon mixed doubles semi-finals. She was knocked out in the quarters
thrice before, in 2011, 2013 and 2015.
Incidentally,
this will also be her first last-four appearance at the grass-court grand slam
since 2015, having won the doubles title then with Martina Hingis.
Paired
with Czech Republic’s Lucie Hradecka, Sania was knocked out in the opening
round of the women’s doubles event this year..
Sania
had announced her retirement plans after her first round exit in the women’s
doubles at the Australian Open. “I think I have achieved almost everything I
could have ever dreamed about when I started out on this amazing game of
tennis,” Sania had then told The Telegraph.
She
had also set some realistic goals for her farewell year: “First things first, I
would like to finish this year without having to face any major injury. It
would be amazing, of course, if I could win a tournament or two in my final
year on the circuit.”
And
that goal may well come true this week if she manages to win the title.
“There
is no one in the world who goes through his or her career and feels that he or
she has had a flawless run in their chosen sport. That is the beauty of sport
and makes it different from a Bollywood movie where you could incorporate a
flawless story of achievements at will,” she had said.
But
Sania’s career, and the inspiration she has been to hundreds of women fighting
to take up sport as a career in India, is nothing short of a blockbuster.
Source:
Telegraph India
https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/sania-mirza-two-wins-from-elusive-title/cid/1873316
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Legal,
yet virtually banned: Turkish women denied right to free, safe abortions
5
Jul 2022
When
Esra*, a 27-year-old from Istanbul fell pregnant by mistake, she knew she had
no choice but to get an abortion.
Abortion
is legal on request in Turkey to all women up to the 10th week of pregnancy,
and up to the 20th week for medical reasons. According to the law, it should be
done in any public hospital for free.
Yet
Esra visited one hospital after another in Istanbul, trying to arrange a
termination, and was turned away from them all.
“I
was told over and over, you can’t get an abortion here, we don’t perform it,”
says Esra. “I told them that it was my right, but they still refused.”
In
growing desperation, she visited several private hospitals but was told they
would charge a fee that she had no way of paying on her teacher’s salary. “The
weeks were passing and I was more and more nervous, imagining that I would end
up in some clandestine and unhealthy place,” she says.
When
she eventually found a private clinic she could afford, she still had to sit
through a lecture by the resident gynaecologist, telling her she should try to
persuade her partner to marry and have the baby.
The
operation seemed to go smoothly, but three weeks later she began to bleed.
“I
had a fever, and pieces of coagulated blood were coming out of my body,” she
says. At the nearest public hospital, doctors performed an emergency operation
after discovering her abortion was incomplete. “They treated me in one of the
hospitals where I had been told that no abortions are performed. It would have
been so easy and safe if they had just agreed in the first place,” says Esra.
She
now worries that she will be unable to have children after experiencing
persistent pain after her operation.
In
Turkey, women’s right to access free and safe medical abortions is increasingly
under threat. After the law legalising abortion was introduced in 1983, the
number of abortions rose over the next five years to 45 per 1,000 women aged
between 15 and 49. Ten years later, it had fallen to 25. A study by Kadir Has
university found that by 2020, there was not a single public hospital
performing on-demand abortions in Istanbul.
According
to the survey, only eight of Turkey’s 81 provinces have at least one public
hospital performing on-demand abortions, and only two of them have more than
one. From the 295 clinics surveyed, 14% said they would not perform abortions
for reasons other than a medical emergency.
The
study found that health workers often tell women that abortion is forbidden, or
legal only for married women. Single women either cannot access the operation
or must bring a permit from the local prosecutor’s office. All of this is
false.
The
Guardian interviewed more than a dozen Turkish women who had all had abortions
in the last three years. All said they were forced to seek terminations in
private clinics, since public hospitals refused to perform the procedure. They
said they were told in some hospitals that it was forbidden for them to carry
out terminations.
“There
is a de facto ban in many places,” explains Filiz, a nurse at a public hospital
in Istanbul where abortions are not performed. “Under Turkish law, a doctor
cannot tell a woman she cannot have an abortion, but refusal is very common,
forcing women to go begging from hospital to hospital,” says Filiz, who prefers
not to give her surname.
This
de facto ban appears to be shaped by the increasingly populist and hardline
approach to abortion taken by the Turkish government. In 2012, Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan, who was prime minister at the time, described abortion as “murder”,
and proposed a bill to restrict it to only the first six weeks. Massive
protests erupted in the country and the proposal was never voted into law.
Yet
reproductive health activists say that, since then, many parts of the public
health system have fallen into line with the government’s increasingly
anti-abortion position, underlined by Erdoğan’s often-repeated wish that “every
woman should have at least three children”.
“We
have increasingly seen hospital administrations put pressure on physicians to
not practise abortions,” says Irmak Saraç, an obstetrician and member of the
women’s commission at the Istanbul Medical Chamber. “The conservative
atmosphere and debate over the foetus’s right to life is increasing the rate of
conscientious objection.”
She
adds: “On many occasions, the family planning units where abortions were
performed have been closed, or new doctors have not been assigned when the
obstetricians retired.”
A
private clinic told the Guardian that the fee for an abortion is about 3,000 liras
(£146), although prices increase with each passing week of pregnancy. This
makes access to an abortion difficult for many women in a country where the
minimum monthly wage is about £243 and only 30% of women of working age are in
formal employment.
Many
of the women who spoke to the Guardian said they had faced hostility,
discrimination and abuse from healthcare workers while trying to access their
right to a safe and legal abortion.
Ilknur,
28, is from Köycegiz, a small town on the Aegean coast. A year ago, she became
pregnant and travelled to Istanbul to have an abortion. “Coming from a small
town, I was afraid the doctor would know my parents, and they would find out,”
she says.
Ilknur
was five weeks’ pregnant, and with the help of two friends called more than 20
public hospitals in Istanbul. All refused her an abortion. “I began to get
really scared because I just presumed it would be straightforward,” she says.
“I even talked to hospitals in other cities near Istanbul but found nothing.”
Two
weeks passed, and Ilknur started consulting private clinics. Using her savings,
she paid 3,500 liras for the abortion. “All the time, I kept wondering about
women in more conservative cities who don’t have this kind of money,” she says.
On
her first visit to the clinic, the doctor was kind and courteous. “But when I
went in for the abortion, the same doctor and the nurse started behaving very
coldly,” she says.
Ilknur
was given a local anaesthetic but a few minutes into the procedure she felt a
strong pain in her stomach that made her move her legs. “The doctor said to me:
‘Open your legs, this is nothing. If you have been able to open your legs to
get pregnant, now you can too’.”
Ilknur
was stunned. “I just couldn’t look at him again. The nurse didn’t say a thing.
I was so embarrassed.”
After
the abortion, she didn’t return to the clinic for a check-up. She thought about
filing a complaint but didn’t want her family to find out about her abortion.
Across
Turkey, some healthcare workers – including Filiz – are now attempting to help
women access their right to a safe abortion, drawing up lists of medical staff
still willing to carry out free abortions.
Filiz
says: “Several of us wrote up a list of doctors who agree to perform abortions,
and we distributed it among grassroots organisations and feminist groups to
help other women. But it is impossible to get this information to all of those
who need it.”
Source:
The Guardian
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Terrorists
Kidnapping Hundreds of Nigerian Women, Using Them as Sex Slaves
By
Masara Kim
July
5, 2022
NIGERIA—Hundreds
of women are being kidnapped every week and held as sex slaves by bandit
terrorists in Nigeria’s north, according to a national politician.
And
the government is unconcerned, said Umar Barde a member of the Nigerian House
of Representatives in a phone interview with The Epoch Times.
“They
[terrorists] rape both young and old women, even teenagers,” said Barde, who
represents Kajuru and Chikun counties of Kaduna state.
Large
bandit gangs who identify chiefly as members of the Fulani tribe have waged
endless war on farming communities in northwest and north-central Nigeria since
2011, according to reports.
The
Fulani, a large ethnic group in West Africa that claims more than 20 million
members in Nigeria, has been blamed for thousands of “genocidal massacres” in
the country in recent years—according to Greg Stanton, the founding president of
Genocide Watch.
“They
target members of a religious group,” wrote Stanton in a recent report. He
rejects claims by U.S. officials, including the ambassador to Nigeria Mary
Berth Leonard, that the massacres are traditional herder-farmer “conflicts.”
In
a recent strike in a frequently terrorized Niger state on June 29, the
terrorists killed more than 30 soldiers and policemen at a mining site in
Ajata-Aboki town, according to local media.
The
attackers also killed six civilians and kidnapped three foreigners working at
the site, the reports say.
The
late-night raid followed weeks of sustained attacks by kidnap-for-ransom gangs
186 miles away in neighboring Kaduna state.
Forced
Marriage
In
one of the latest instances, motorcycle-riding terrorists struck a small
farming town in Kachia county known as Kasan-Kogi.
They
kidnapped 27 residents—21 women and six males according to Ezekiel Garba, a
pastor at the Chapel of Good News Church in Kasan-Kogi.
The
terrorists killed two residents and threatened to marry off the female
abductees to their gang members within days of demanding 100 million Nigerian
naira (US$240,818.78), Garba said.
“They
said they will use our women to produce children that will, in turn, fight us,”
said Garba whose wife is among the abductees.
The
attack occurred at dawn, Garba said, lasting two hours without intervention by
the military. The distance from the nearest military station, the Kalapanzi
Artillery Barrack Kakuri, is less than 15 miles, Barde said.
According
to Garba, the band of 300 terrorists on motorcycles swooped in on the small
farming town at 6.30 a.m. after a 30-man civilian guard group had closed from a
routine night watch.
“They
split themselves throughout the village—some went and circled an Evangelical
Church Winning All in the center of the town where 15 women were attending a
morning fellowship,” he said.
“They
shot the pastor of the church—Rev. Ezra Shamaki and another person within the
church premises and kidnapped 14 of the women who could not escape,” Garba
said. “Among the women kidnapped was the wife of Pastor Ezra,” he said.
He
added: “Another group chased and took me, my wife, and my daughter at different
locations. They later released me and my daughter who … recently gave birth and asked me to go and
mobilize a ransom.
“They
went on to kidnap six others—five females and one male in one village close to
us called Gora.”
“We
told them we cannot pay the amount they are demanding,” said Garba. “They have
stopped us from going to the farms and we don’t have any source of income,” he
said.
His
colleague at the Chapel of Good News church in Kasan-Kogi, Pastor Andrew
Garba—whose wife is also being held—told The Epoch Times, “This is the second
time my family members are being kidnapped this year and I don’t have anything
left.”
Two
days before the attack, a similar raid on a complex of villages known as Rubu
in nearby Kajuru county on June 19 saw 36 residents kidnapped.
They
included 31 females, according to Jonathan Asake, president of the Southern
Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU).
Three
people were killed in the attack on Christian worshippers on a Sunday morning,
Asake said.
The
Epoch Times had reported an earlier attack on June 5 in Dogon Noma and Maikori
towns in the same count.
In
that incident, terrorists firing from a helicopter killed 33 people and
kidnapped 27 others. The abductees were predominantly females, said Asake in a
phone call.
“They
kidnap women and turn them into sex slaves,” Asake said. “Many of the women
have returned traumatized with many of them dying after being released.”
Shared
With Terrorists
Approximately
320 miles away in Kebbi state, Epoch Times reporter Beloved John interviewed
villagers who said dozens of women kidnapped in the terror-battered east of the
state have returned pregnant.
“People
don’t talk about them,” said John in a phone call. “They are scared of stigma,”
she said.
In
a nearby Sokoto state where terrorists are taking towns and standing up to
their own governments, husbands are forced to share their wives with bandits
and remain silent, according to reporters speaking to The Epoch Times.
“They
mostly come into towns and … demand that men release their wives to them or
they will be killed,” said one reporter, Mansur Buhari who is also a lecturer
at the Sokoto State University.
“Sometimes
they chase all men from a town and rape all the women there,” said Buhari.
A
former county chairman in Sabon Birni, Idris Gobir told The Epoch Times, “The
raping of women by terrorists has become part of everyday life in Sabon Birni
and Isa [areas].
Gobir
is currently standing to represent Sabon Birni in the Nigerian House of Reps.
“On
a particular day in one village, they lined up more than 100 women and raped
them in front of their husbands,” he said.
In
another instance in November 2021, Gobir said terrorists gang-raped more than
20 women in a Mosque in a town called Allakiru in Sabon Birni county.
The
incident has been confirmed by an Islamic cleric in Sokoto—Sheikh Bello Yabo.
“These
terrorists captured women in a particular village and raped them in a mosque,”
Yabo said on the internet. He then berated President Muhammadu Buhari for
failing to protect citizens in Sokoto.
Officials
Ignore Queries
Police
and officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in
Persons (NAPTIP)—an agency that tracks and prosecutes trafficking offences—did
not provide the information requested by The Epoch Times.
An
agency official who identified as Rose Paul—replying to one of The Epoch Times’
emails wrote—“I am directed to inform you that the statistics showing trends in
trafficking can be retrieved from the agency’s website.”
The
Epoch Times found that of 1,112 trafficking cases reported on the website in
2021—the latest figures published by the agency, none was reported as a case of
sex slavery involving terrorists.
The
U.S. State Department in its 2021 Trafficking Report on Nigeria links this to
corruption and lack of coordination among relevant agencies.
Boosting
Terror Groups
Sex
slavery is a predictable strategy by terrorists aimed at repopulating their
groups, wrote Elizabeth Baklaich, a Human Rights Educator and Christian Rights
Activist in Washington.
“This
is a pattern of terrorism we have seen before,” wrote Baklaich to The Epoch
Times in a text message.
“We
understand the how and why, so what makes us incapable of keeping history from
repeating itself, protecting the innocents and helping those who are facing
brutal persecution, rape, and slaughter?” said Baklaich, who condemned the
silence of the United Nations and other governments.
The
Nigerian government is helpless to act, or is unwilling to do so, wrote British
activist and spokesman of Release International, Andrew Boyd.
“This
has grave implications for the whole of Africa,” wrote Boyd in an email to The
Epoch Times.
“The
culture of impunity is spreading; and the repercussions for Nigeria and its
citizens, already horrific, are set to worsen,” he wrote.
Source:
The Epoch Times
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Islam
Ensures Rights to Women, Says Lollywood Star Armeena Khan
JULY
6, 2022
Lollywood
star Armeena Khan has opened up about women tights. The actress has said that
Islam ensures provision of rights to women but these are Muslim men who become
hurdle in the way. Taking to Twitter, Armeena Khan wrote, “Islam does but
Muslim men don’t allow those “rights” to be passed on so women are still
without their basic rights. And you only have to look at all the gender-based
violence as evidence,” The actress often talks about Islam and its beautiful
code of life whenever some western people try to make any criticism.
Source:
Daily Times Pakistan
https://dailytimes.com.pk/963281/islam-ensures-rights-to-women-says-armeena-khan/
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Saudi
Arabia deploys more than 1,380 nurses at holy site hospitals to serve pilgrims
July
04, 2022
Tawfiq
Nasrallah
Dubai:
Saudi Arabia has announced the deployment of as many as 1383 male and female
nurses at the holy site hospitals to serve pilgrims participating in the Hajj,
local media reported.
According
to the Ministry of Health, the nurses include 556 men, 827 women, 1,237 of whom
(89 per cent) are Saudis, and 146 are non-Saudis (11 per cent).
The
nurses were distributed to the Holy Sites Hospitals as follows: Mina Emergency
Hospital (126), Mina Al Jisr Hospital (134), Mina New Street Hospital (75),
Mina Al-Wadi Hospital (175), East Arafat Hospital (82), Jabal Al-Rahma Hospital
(85), Namera Hospital (97), Arafat General Hospital (167), Muzdalifah Hospital
(51), Jamarat Hospital (62), and health centers in Mina (329).
According
to Saudi Press Agency, more than 650,000 pilgrims have so far arrived in the
kingdom, coming through air and land ports to perform Hajj this year.
The
Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said that a total of 294,377 pilgrims left Medina
during the past days on their way to the holy sites in Mecca, while the total
number of pilgrims remaining in Medina yesterday reached 74,758 pilgrims.
Source:
Gulf News
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Ex-Afghan
president urges immediate return of girls to school to help economic future
05
July, 2022
Afghan
girls should return to school immediately, Afghanistan’s former President Hamid
Karzai told Al Arabiya, stressing that education was needed to help the war-torn
country “move ahead” and reduce its reliance on the rest of the world.
“The
most important and pressing issue is the return of Afghan girls to school from
grades 6 to 12,” Karzai said.
“These
are the issues and these are the decisions of the Afghan people [that] require
of the current government to make so that Afghanistan moves ahead with
education, so that Afghanistan is able to stand on its own feet rather than
being a country that is in need of the world, rather than being a country from
which its people are running away, that has to stop.”
The
former president, who ruled the country from 2002 to 2014, said that a
power-sharing model of governance was “not necessary” so long as the Taliban
interim government earns the approval of the Afghan people.
“…The
whole idea [is] to bring about a feeling that Afghanistan belongs to all its
people and that the government of Afghanistan is representing all its people,
and that it is moving in a direction where the aspirations of the people are
being fulfilled.”
Karzai
said that one way the Taliban can gain the approval of the country’s people was
to ensure the return of girls to school. He added that the government needed to
take policies that were in the “direction of progress, self-sufficiency, and
economic wellbeing” to ensure a sense of unity among the people.
He
continued, “It is in the interest of the Afghan people to have Afghan women get
educated. The entire Muslim world is getting girls educated. Islam emphasizes
the education for girls, [it] lays immense emphasis on education and learning,
and Afghanistan cannot be an exception. The Afghan woman obey hijab fully among
the best in the Western world in this regard. Therefore, there is no reason
there cannot be an excuse not allowing girls to go to school.”
The
ex-president’s comments come after a three-day meeting which ended on Saturday
that failed to address some of the country’s most pressing issues, including
girls’ education.
Afghan
women activists said on Sunday that they still viewed the Taliban as illegitimate
rulers despite a declaration by thousands of male Afghan critics endorsing the
government, according to an AFP report.
Last
week, they insisted that women would be represented at the three-day meeting,
but only by their sons and husbands. It was attended by over 3,500 men.
The
Taliban seized power last August and have since tried to present their vision
of an extremist country governed by their interpretation of the Sharia law.
Since returning to power after the US’ failed attempt to repel their influence
in the country, the Taliban’s harsh policies have imposed severe restrictions
on Afghans – particularly women.
Karazi
said Afghan women have been wearing burkas in the country for a “very, very
long time,” adding that “Afghan women are fully obeying the hijab in many
forms. Some wear burkas, some wear a big scarf for their heads. Others do it in
some other forms...”
However,
what is needed “is not so much a discussion on this on hijab,” he said.
“This
is something that the society is doing anyway. What we are asking about, what
the country is asking about is the return of women back to work. As half of the
society, that is extremely important,” Karazi told Al Arabiya.
“I
must emphasize for the well-being of Afghanistan, any government that wants to
see the country do well must understand that that cannot happen without women
working shoulder to shoulder with the men of that society for a better future.”
Source:
Al Arabiya
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