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World Has Fallen For The Taliban's Lies Once Again By Fawzia Koofi

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“The World Has Fallen for the Taliban’s Lies Once Again” Fawzia Koofi begins her article with an anecdote, recalling her first year in medical school at Kabul University when the Taliban invaded and occupied Afghanistan. In the article, Koofi explains the spiraling emotions that took hold of her as the Taliban announced the ban on women and girls from attending schools, workplaces, and public locations. This ban was a form of oppression that Afghan women were subjected to that caused many of them to go into seclusion and the crushing of dreams. Koofi informs the audience of the false promises and illusions of the Taliban that were meant to ensure international communities and the people of Afghanistan. Koofi believes that the international community was swindled and they are naively believing in a regime that has stripped women of their basic human rights. Koofi describes the danger the Taliban is forcing on future generations by changing the school curriculum into one that correlates with their extremist ideology and one that encourages violence to reach their goals. She urges the world to join with opposition groups and to cease …show more content…

The Taliban have stripped women of their basic human rights and subjected them to a life of seclusion. What has been promised by the Taliban before the reoccupation has dissipated as they recreate a brutal fundamentalist regime that seems to wish for the eradication of women's thoughts and ideas. Fawzia Koofi is one of the courageous women who have spoken out against the Taliban and fought for democracy, actions that have caused her to be the target of many assassinations. In Fawzia Koofi’s article, she urges international communities to release the fallacy they have clung to and put an end to the sense of impunity the Taliban have to enjoy by using anecdotes and a variety of

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