Founder of all-girls school in Afghanistan escapes with students and burns records
Barnini Chakraborty
Tue, August 24, 2021, 8:14 PM

Founder of all-girls school in Afghanistan escapes with students and burns records

The co-founder of the only all-girls private boarding school in Afghanistan said Tuesday that nearly 250 students, faculty, staff, and family members had made it out of the war-torn country and will temporarily resettle in Rwanda for a "semester abroad" for the entire study body.

"SOLA (School of Leadership, Afghanistan) is resettling, but our resettlement is not permanent," Shabana Basij-Rasikh tweeted. "A semester abroad is exactly what we're planning. When circumstances on the ground permit, we hope to return home to Afghanistan."


Basij-Rasikh also thanked the governments of Qatar, Rwanda, and the United States for helping the girls escape.

"My heart breaks for my country," she added. "I've stood in Kabul, and I've seen the fear, and the anger, and the ferocious bravery of the Afghan people. I look at my students, and I see the faces of the millions of Afghan girls, just like them, who remain behind."

Basij-Rasikh tweeted videos of herself Friday burning the academic records and files of the young women at her school amid the terror of what a return to Taliban rule could mean for women. Basij-Rasikh said she burned the documents to protect students and their families from the terror group.

"In March 2002, after the fall of Taliban, thousands of Afghan girls were invited to go to the nearest public school to participate in a placement test because the Taliban had burned all female students' records to erase their existence. I was one of those girls," Basij-Rasikh said. "Nearly 20 years later, as the founder of the only all-girls boarding school in Afghanistan, I'm burning my students' records not to erase them, but to protect them and their families."

Since seizing control of Afghanistan, the Taliban have attempted to reshape their image and portray themselves to Western reporters as a kinder, gentler extremist group that will respect women's rights within the limits of Shariah, though they provided no details of their new reading of Islamic law. When the Taliban were last in power in the 1990s, their hard-line stance led to the severe mistreatment of women. Women had become second-class citizens with very few, if any, rights. Girls were yanked out of school. And if that weren't enough, nearly all of the schools were either blown up or bullet-ridden.

Basij-Rasikh, who was born and raised in Kabul, was only 6 years old when the Taliban forbade girls from receiving an education.

Rather than giving in to their demands, her family dressed her and her sister up as boys and sent them to a secret school for girls in Kabul. They knew the stakes were high, and if caught, they could be killed. But they also knew the importance of education.


Basij-Rasikh attended high school in the United States through the YES exchange program and graduated magna cum laude in 2010 from Middlebury College in Vermont. After graduating, she returned to her homeland and co-founded SOLA, the first-of-its-kind Afghan-led private boarding school for girls.

Since the Taliban takeover, she has been pleading with the outside world to keep the girls stuck in Afghanistan in their minds.

"Those girls cannot leave, and you cannot look away. If there's one thing I ask of the world, it is this: Do not avert your eyes from Afg. Don't let your attention wander as the weeks pass. See those girls, & in doing so you will hold those holding power over them to account," she said.
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Sharp Woman. History will never forget such doggedness.

This life no Balance at all, See the stress and risk taken in regards to gaining Education in Afghan,
breaks my heart to know that this same Edu. is worth less in my country for same gender were it seems Clito-curreny rules.

FTC Dedicated to all those Ladies working their ass out absent the Clito effect to make ends meet, may Bros J bless una hustle.

Okay nice one

The beauty of Islam...

Islam's running away from Islam rule
No be juju be that

Kudos to that great woman, else, most of those girls might have end up being a second or third wife to those blood sucking terrorist bearing numerous kids that would also be a threat to the universe.

Nice one from this courageous woman!

and they 'll still keep to the same relationship that is murdering them

The beauty of what again.... are the Talibans not Islam?

Beauty kill u there!!!

phorget:
The beauty of Islam...

Now they have left you behind

caesymore:
Sharp Woman. History will never forget such doggedness.

This life no Balance at all, See the stress and risk taken in regards to gaining Education in Afghan,
breaks my heart to know that this same Edu. is worth less in my country for same gender were it seems Clito-curreny rules.

FTC Dedicated to all those Ladies working their ass out absent the Clito effect to make ends meet, may Bros J bless una hustle.

on a serious note, too much weed is affecting you, i will advice you seriously reduce your intake.

Unruly7:
Islam's running away from Islam rule
No be juju be that

Bros na big juju

Wise decision. The earlier the better.

Taliban, Book haram and Bandit are united by Islam and hatred for education.

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She is better than the afgan president who left with cash only

He was just being sarcastic buh u missed it

Majestickris7:
The beauty of what again.... are the Talibans not Islam?

Beauty kill u there!!!

They fill other nations and begin to demand for the same haram they ran away from. I'm not finding this their exit funny anymore.
They've all refused to be enlightened.... It's only a matter of time before they begin to clamour for their muslim shitz.

Tooh

What a world...
It's disheartening to see Islamic terrorists and jihadists tear our world apart.

I think he was being sarcastic....

Majestickris7:
The beauty of what again.... are the Talibans not Islam?

Beauty kill u there!!!

The Talibans shouldn't have allowed anyone especially females leave the country, they chose the Islamic religion, so they must stay and strictly adhere to the rules of Islam.

When I think deeply about this world, I get confused most times.
Look at the caliber of rich people, they are not religious.
Most poor people are religious..
Some struggle throughout their lifetime while some had it easy throughout their lifetime..
Some became mad
Some incapacitated
Some died by accident and I wonder, is this world some sort of game that unfolds as as we evolve?


Pls advice me
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This woman self get sense, pass the Afgan solders.

caesymore:
Sharp Woman. History will never forget such doggedness.

This life no Balance at all, See the stress and risk taken in regards to gaining Education in Afghan,
breaks my heart to know that this same Edu. is worth less in my country for same gender were it seems Clito-curreny rules.

FTC Dedicated to all those Ladies working their ass out absent the Clito effect to make ends meet, may Bros J bless una hustle.

They (some) pay and live life on clits
Naija girls will give you so far you buy Indomie, egg is not compulsory.
Even if you thrust and drop like Indomie
You money is the only necessity to curm-in
Don't mind her shouting 'stopeet'
she means dig it, thrusting, never stop it.

I wanna write a story... who born this Naija leeches ?? but i never get time, and since I won't have time to dig my grave, i need money to dig more of it.

Drabeey was Here

IT'S SO REVEALING AND HIGH PERPLEXING HOW PEOPLE REASON HERE WITH THE EXTREMISTS MINDSETS. HUMANS, WE ARE NOT ALONE,THERE ARE INDEED ALIENS AMONG US.

Postgraduatengr:
Wise decision. The earlier the better.

Taliban, Book haram and Bandit are united by Islam and hatred for education.

YET THEY USE CLOTHS AND EQUIPMENTS PRODUCED BY EDUCATION. THEY ARE JUST DEVIOUS CRIMINALS USING FLIMZY EXCUSE TO COMMIT CRIME. JUST LIKE FAKE PASTORS USING THE SCRIPTURE VERSES TO EXTORT IGNORANT FOLLOWERS

Unruly7:
Islam's running away from Islam rule
No be juju be that

It boggles the mind. One of the earliest lessons you learn in life is that you will have to fight for yourself. 9 times out of 10, there is no messiah coming.
Isn't it suspicious that America chose the harder option of evacuating Afghan refugees rather than maintain the military occupation? Abi the spoils of war nor do them again? Now same Afghan that don't want American soldiers are running to America for better life. They are simply terrorists-in-waiting. Na the American civilians go hear am. Shebi na them vote one world order.

No terrorist org flourishes without the tacit support of the Governments. None. The politicians have always used them to sow fear and inflate the budget whilst keeping control of the people.

And this is what our Northern brothers are jubilating over. Someone remind me please, what exactly are we doing together in one space with such people?

Mama for the girls a true hero she is.....Hope she planned adequate preparation for the girls