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Metered paywall.
The only possible defense he could have, is that the Taliban is so terrified of educated woman not taking their bullshit, that they have to prevent their education.  The Taliban are weak, pathetic, and petty. >

Funnily enough - that IS the actual reason.. >

It is a grave sin, to be born a woman in Afghanistan. >

Studying history I've come to the conclusion many islamic societies were more advanced back then than now. >

The Islamic world virtually saved the western world after Constantinople fell. They even educated the European nobles for centuries. The current crop of Sunni Islam with these views came from the Wahhabism and its backward and insular practices. I’m not clear what happened in Shia Islam though outside of the student revolution which was co-opted into the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. It is far removed from the cosmopolitan Islam of the Ottoman or the many Persian Empires. Places like Afghanistan and Iran have regressed from where they were even 60 years ago. This is an aberration if you look at Indonesia, Syria or Turkey. >

Constantinople?  That was the 15th century.  Europe was starting the Rennaisance by then.  And thanks to the likes of Hulagu Khan the Mamlukes the Middle East was starting to decline.
Do you mean the Western Roman Empire instead? >

So the Byzantine empire was the eastern Roman Empire and not the western which was based in Rome. Constantinople first fell during the 4th crusades and was sacked and looted by those crusaders and reduced to a fraction of what it was prior in the 1200s. The Ottomans took over the city in the mid 1400s or so. My statement stands and I do not revise anything. If it hadn’t been for the Ottomans the knowledge, wisdom and beauty of Constantinople would of been lost to history. The ottomans and their predecessors helped to educate Europeans after the 4th crusades in the 1200s and Constantinople was decimated, burned and looted by the  “Christian” crusaders. >

Oh, ok.  I didn't get you meant the Fourth Crusade.  Usually people use the term "fall of Constantinople" to refer to the Ottoman conquest.  Though, it was more the Arabs who Westetn Europeans learned from than turks. >

Yes the Ottomans had more influence in the Balkans and Slavic areas including Hungary which fiercely fought against them but also traded heirs for learning such as Vlad the impaler’s brother. Western Europeans may have had more interactions with the Moors but still it stands that many European nobles and other boys were educated by the Ottomans also. >

like... why even have a minister of eduation????? >

Talibans must have inferiority complex even though they control the government and country. >

How is it humanly possible to defend closing universities to women?  I mean when they're closed to women only that is... >

They’re frightened of educated women.