Prominent Afghan citizens urge Taliban to allow women education
ANKARA, Türkiye – Prominent Afghan citizens have launched a campaign to force the Taliban to allow the reintroduction of girls’ education in Afghanistan.
One of the members of this campaign, Fazl Hadi Wazeen, told Muslim Network News that this campaign has been launched both inside and outside Afghanistan.
Wazeen, an academic and politician who ran as a candidate for first vice president in 2019, said the campaign is apolitical and involves a cross-section of citizens.
He said the Afghan people cannot tolerate ignorance and illiteracy among women.
“The campaign for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been launched as a national initiative, and this campaign will continue until the doors of schools and universities are opened for girls,” he said.
Afghan leader said the campaign, which involves civil society groups, former diplomats, parliamentarians, and others, will use all means to convince and force the Taliban to reverse ban on women’s education.
He said that while the Taliban has called the ban temporary, there is no hope yet.
Wazeen, who is also an Islamic scholar currently living in Türkiye, said the pursuit of knowledge is a religious duty and a basic human right.
“Seeking knowledge is a religious obligation as well as a fundamental human right. Its people’s demand and is a prerequisite of sovereignty, stability, prosperity and self-reliance of a nation,” he added.
He said banning girls from education is intolerable and unacceptable.
He called on the international community and renowned religious scholars from the Islamic world to convince the Afghan rulers.
Wazeen said that denying education to girls is not only against the interests of the Islamic Ummah but also shows a distorted image and misunderstanding about Islam.
“We call upon our people to ask for the right to education for their girls similarly as they do for their boys and continue to ask for their legitimate, peaceful and civil rights from the rulers and the international community,” he said.
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