I get your point of view, it’s messed up that the Taliban aren’t allowing public education for women but they’re not aren’t against her because she’s visiting Afghanistan without a non mahram. Hopefully over time the Taliban will moderate and leave those backward views, Afghanistan is more stable now and lacks corruption, opium industry, is being regional ties with neighbouring countries like Iran, India and China, building infrastructure and mega projects. A lot of the younger Taliban leadership want to open education up for women again.
They clearly said they had no plans to reopen. I initially had hope that they would rethink and that things will be up and running.
Btw, they are against her for traveling around without a Mahram, they are against her for showing her face for millions of men to see. They are against her taking pics with non Mahram men, but they can’t say anything since she’s foreigner who’s stupid enough to take pics and grin with them hence giving them free PR. The moment that woman decides to settle in
their lands, it’s over.
It’s a classic case of Diaspora superiority complex, western exceptionalism, high baseline tolerance for abuse against Afghan women, believing your identity as a Muslim woman allows you to co-opt their opression (and subsequently vindicate it), treating the tragedies of other women as an adventure.
For this Xalimo it’s all about a good old adventure. She can show off on YouTube about her exploits that have all been made possible by education and her ability to make money whilst smiling in the faces of men who refuse for young women like her to have the right to learn how to write their own flipping name!
If this is the type of Western Muslim women we have running around then let’s weep for the women of this Ummah who can’t even have the solidarity of the women who could use their education and money to fight for the God given Islamic rights for ALL women not just privileged ones, instead we have bird brains riddled with Western exceptionalism who think everything is an adventure! So yes, I’ll always judge this Muslim Xalimo more harshly than a gaal cadaan who couldn’t care less about Muslim women.