Three years ago, on August 21, 2021, the Western adventure in Afghanistan ended. Nothing remains of twenty years of our presence. Like the website of the University of Kabul, where we offered Afghans courses in “Gender and Woman Studies” since 2015.
It has aged badly, like the CNN article that announced it. Like UNICEF, which said it was “fairly optimistic” that the Taliban would respect women’s right to education while they took back power; like Twitter (as it was called before Elon Musk bought it) which declared that the Taliban could continue to use the social network “as long as they respect the rules”; like a Canadian minister (female) who called the Taliban “our brothers” and the famous French association Osez le féminisme! which expressed “sisterhood with Afghan women in the face of misogyny”.
The west has to learn to fight Islam as they fought Hitler and Japan in WW II.
