Victory to the resistance!
From AsiaNews, Afghans bravely resisting the murderous misogyny of the Taliban:
Shamsia Husseini has gone back to the Mirwais School for Girls in Kandahar. Shamsia is the 17-year-old young woman who had acid thrown into her face in November, to punish her because she wanted an education. She explains that “my parents told me to keep coming to school even if they want to kill me.” Local sources tell AsiaNews about the difficult situation for women in the country.
14 other women have been attacked with acid, between students and teachers at the school. For a little while, all of the girls stayed away from school. Then the authorities promised more police, more supervision, they spoke of the importance of education for their lives and for society. Now almost all of the 1,300 female students in the area have gone back to school.
Shamsia also suffered damage to her eyes, and sometimes has trouble reading. She says that “the people who did this to me don’t want women to be educated.” Her mother is illiterate, like almost all the adult women in the area. Many students are almost 20 years old, and are going to school for the first time.
Local sources tell AsiaNews that “Shamsia and her family are demonstrating heroic courage in the face of the total opposition of the Taliban toward education for women. This is all the more admirable because they live in Kandahar, the holy city of the Taliban. Afghan women have a great desire for education, in Kabul and in the other cities there are often more students in classes for girls than for boys. But this progress has not yet been seen in the villages, where the Taliban have more power.”
Very brave people, and true progressives.
We hear a lot of drivel from certain quarters about supporting the Afghan ‘resistance’. Girls like Shamsia are the real Afghan resistance. People who desparately want the most basic things we take for granted in the West and who refuse to allow Islamist thugs to stop them getting them. Things like the right for women to be educated and for women not to live as subservient chattel. Shamsia and her family are indeed demonstrating heroic courage, courage in the face of a fascistic movement that wants them dead.
