Archive for January 14th, 2011

Feeling the love of Islam: Children wade through the ruins of their school, blown up by the Taliban in January, 2009

And I’m a banana:

The Taliban have abandoned their opposition to female education in Afghanistan, the country’s education minister has claimed.

Farooq Wardak told the UK’s Times Educational Supplement a “cultural change” meant the Taliban were “no more opposing girls’ education”.

Under the Taliban regime, women in Afghanistan were not allowed to work or get an education.

Mr Wardak made his comments while in London for the Education World Forum. Read the rest of this entry »