freediver wrote on Aug 31
st, 2019 at 11:39am:
The wikipedia article said the pre-invasion regime had the death penalty for teachers and students, for the crime of teaching girls to read.
You are either extremely clueless, or you are lying. Again.
From the two wiki articles you quoted in
this post:
1.
Quote:During the Taliban regime, many women who had previously been teachers began secretly giving an education to young girls (as well as some boys) in their neighborhoods, teaching from ten to sixty children at a time.[26] The homes of these women became community homes for students, and were entirely financed and managed by women. News about these secret schools spread through word of mouth from woman to woman.[26]
Each day young girls would hide all their school supplies, such as books, notebooks and pencils, underneath their burqas to go to school. At these schools, young females were taught basic literary skills, numeracy skills, and various other subjects such as biology, chemistry, English, Quranic Studies, cooking, sewing, and knitting. Many women involved in teaching were caught by the Taliban and persecuted, jailed, and tortured.[26]
and
2.
Quote:Education
The Taliban claimed to recognize their Islamic duty to offer education to both boys and girls, yet a decree was passed that banned girls above the age of 8 from receiving education. Maulvi Kalamadin insisted it was only a temporary suspension and that females would return to school and work once facilities and street security were adapted to prevent cross-gender contact. The Taliban wished to have total control of Afghanistan before calling upon an Ulema body to determine the content of a new curriculum to replace the Islamic yet unacceptable Mujahadin version.[2]
The female employment ban was felt greatly in the education system. Within Kabul alone, the ruling affected 106,256 girls, 148,223 male students, and 8,000 female university undergraduates. 7,793 female teachers were dismissed, a move that crippled the provision of education and caused 63 schools to close due to a sudden lack of educators.[10] Some women ran clandestine schools within their homes for local children, or for other women under the guise of sewing classes, such as the Golden Needle Sewing School. The learners, parents and educators were aware of the consequences should the Taliban discover their activities, but for those who felt trapped under the strict Taliban rule, such actions allowed them a sense of self-determination and hope.[14]
So the only thing even remotely related to the actual consequences of 8 year old girls attending to school is "Many women involved in teaching were caught by the Taliban and persecuted, jailed, and tortured". Every other reference to punishment mentions only the teachers, not the students.
Compare these two quotes with what you actually said:
Quote:The Taliban presented every girl over 8 in the regions they controlled with the death penalty for learning to read, and girls under 8 with the death penalty for learning to read anything other than the Quran. It was not an isolated incident, it was an actively enforced policy.
So there are in fact several layers of lies in this claim of yours:
1. no mention of anyone being shot in the back of the head for teaching girls - students or teachers. No mention of anyone being killed by any means over girls education.
2. No mention of girls, 8 year olds otherwise, receiving any punishment for going to school - only teachers
3. No reference whatsoever to under 8s - let alone any punishment for them learning to read non-Quranic materia.
Is it dawning on you yet the extent of your dishonesty FD?