«A woman cannot be a minister. It is as if we put something on her shoulders that she cannot support. It is not necessary for women to be in the government, they have to have children ”. The statements to the Tolo News broadcaster by one of the spokesmen of the Koranic students, Sayed Zekrullah Hashim, bring to the fore the religious extremism of Afghanistan and the new government of Kabul. With all due respect to the rumors, fueled by the Taliban themselves, of possible female presences in a future government of the country.
«The four women protesting in the streets», the spokesman continued, «do not represent the women of Afghanistan. The women of Afghanistan are those who give children to our people, and who educate them according to Islamic values ». “In the last 20 years – added Hashimi, responding to the Tolo News interviewer -, what have the United States and its puppet government done in Afghanistan if not to allow office prostitution?”.
“The situation of Afghan women requires commitment,” said the Minister of Family and Equal Opportunities Elena Bonetti in Catania. “The Government is putting it into action thanks to the extraordinary action and leadership of President Draghi, in particular in defining an international strategy that moves in the protection of fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms, in prevention, protection against any violence but also in the promotion of paths that give back to Afghan women a possibility of citizenship ».