Malala Yousafzai informs Muslim leaders not to ‘legitimise’ Taliban

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai prompted Muslim leaders on Sunday not to “legitimise” the Afghan Taliban federal government and to “show true leadership” by opposing their visuals on ladies and ladies’ education and learning.

“Do not legitimise them,” she stated at a top on ladies’ education and learning in Muslim countries being kept in Pakistan’s funding Islamabad.

“As Muslim leaders, now is the time to raise your voices, use your power. You can show true leadership. You can show true Islam,” stated 27-year-old Yousafzai.

The two-day meeting has actually united priests and education and learning authorities from lots of Muslim- bulk nations, backed by the Muslim World League.

Since sweeping back to power in 2021, the Taliban federal government has actually enforced an ascetic variation of Islamic legislation that the United Nations has actually classified “gender apartheid”.

Their visuals have actually closed ladies and ladies out of senior high school and college education and learning, in addition to numerous federal government work, and seen them withdrawed out of numerous facets of public life.

Delegates from Afghanistan’s Taliban federal government did not participate in the occasion regardless of being welcomed, Pakistan Education Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui informed AFP on Saturday.

“Simply put, the Taliban do not see women as human beings,” Yousafzai informed the meeting.

“They cloak their crimes in cultural and religious justification.”

Yousafzai was fired in the face by the Pakistani Taliban when she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 2012, in the middle of her marketing for women education and learning civil liberties.

Her advocacy made her the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, and she has actually considering that ended up being a worldwide supporter for ladies and ladies’ education and learning civil liberties.

“The Taliban are explicit about their mission: they want to eliminate women and girls from every aspect of public life and erase them from society,” she informed the meeting.

While there is protest in much of the worldwide neighborhood over the Taliban federal government visuals, countries are separated over just how to involve with Kabul’s leaders on the concern.

Some nations say they ought to be iced up out of the polite neighborhood till they backtrack, while others like interaction to coax them right into a U-turn.

No nation has actually formally acknowledged the Taliban authorities, yet a number of local federal governments have actually involved on the subjects of profession and safety.

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