On the morning of Tuesday, April 18 of this year, I read a news item stating that “the foreign ministers of the G-7 countries demanded the Taliban to “immediately return” to the decision to prevent women from working for non-governmental organizations and the United Nations in Afghanistan, in a move that the Islamic Movement criticized as “interfering” in internal affairs. Last year, the hard-line government banned secondary education for girls and at a later stage university education, making Afghanistan the only country in the world to impose a ban on education. Thus, in full view of the world, we watch this violence, which was described by the BBC platform with an expressive title, “Afghanistan under Taliban rule: There is no place for women in the country.” But I borrow the title of Professor Mashari Al-Zaidi, “The More Dangerous Than the Taliban,” and I say that there are indeed pauses that require contemplation or even remembrance, and as Al-Zaidi described the observation of “the water of awareness evaporating about the danger of these groups” in his important reference in his article “Who Bet on the End of the Awakening,” and I say in my opinion with all It is clear that he is not betting on its end or claiming it except for the naive and the heedless.
And this Taliban today and its declared and unannounced follies are seen by us as women who were born in the height of the extremist awakening era. I even remember that when I heard the Taliban's decision to put patrols chasing women out in the streets, I laughed hard and thought, What if we don't actually wake up from this hell? The younger generations will not comprehend what happened to us and how words were ringing in our ears every morning that “songs are the mail of fornication” and that we women are the wood of hell? Oh my God, I wrote long ago in “Okaz” “Oh my mirror” in which I demand the Ministry of Education to return my mirror and my perfume that have been confiscated so that I don’t wear perfume and end up in the lowest depths of the fire. What the extremist currents have dedicated against women in the Kingdom for years will not disintegrate in a day and night. Yes, they were beaten and defeated by the force of the law, praise be to God, but who will erase those images lingering in the minds and understanding? Who will compensate entire generations for their suffering?
Perhaps the compensation is in our inspiring vision and reconstruction for the next generation, but I ring the bell here with Al Dhaidi and repeat his important warning when he said: “The Taliban is not just a rural Pashtun movement, but rather expresses an intellectual crisis and a psychological dilemma that is still pulsating in the arteries of the mind and the veins of the public spirit.” Who does not remember the entrances of individuals and families in restaurants? And who among us does not live until this moment with the forced isolation of bachelors and preventing them from obtaining normal housing under the pretext that they are “human wolves.” Who among us does not witness the excessive apprehension in dealing with the two sexes as if greetings were an amorous invitation? And we saw disturbing trends, such as those that discourage girls from normal interactions at work, and another slanders the offer of divorced women in his car!
Today, as we rejoice in the bliss of the gains of the nation’s vision and celebrate and rejoice in the public space, we must not forget or overlook the “silent” voices voluntarily or even out of fear of punishment, and that there be a more practical awareness plan in spreading moderate thought and moderation, and perhaps it is the millionth time that I repeat to the parties It is entrusted with creating awareness, “Stop focusing on Twitter.” Go to the field! We want to see social teams in 13 administrative regions that monitor and monitor the conditions of societies, especially women, and make sure that social and psychological support is received before material. Economic pumping is important that it coincides with a knowledge and cultural project, not just relying on it to reach the trend. This, and God is the success, and every year and the country is fine.
Areej Al-Juhani