A video of a young Afghan girl making a powerful speech about the importance and need of women’s education in Afghanistan has gone viral on social media. The clip was shared by an Afghan journalist, Bilal Sarwary, on Twitter, shows a girl raising her concerns about women’s education and their future.

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In the video, the young girl can be seen among what looks like a children’s protest against the Taliban’s “girl’s don’t need education” approach. 

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The girl then asks that when Allah (God) has given everyone equal rights, who is the Taliban to stop us from doing anything.

“It is an opportunity and we have an aim to do something for the development of our county. Allah has given this opportunity and women have equal rights…So, who is the Taliban to take this opportunity and rights from us?” she says in the video

The young girl then raises an important point that today’s girls will become mothers in the future and if they will not be educated how will they teach manners and values to posterity.

“Today’s girls are tomorrow’s mothers. If they do not have education, how will they teach manners to their children? I am from the new generation. I was not born to just eat, sleep and stay at home. I want to go to school. I want to do something for the development of my country.”

The girl then asks everyone who can a country developed without something as basic as education.

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“If we don’t get an education if I don’t get education, how will our next generation be well-mannered,” she adds.

Harping on the importance of education for Afghan girls, the young girl says, “If we have no education, we will have no value in the world, we will be like a blind person.”

The protest comes after the Taliban government recently released a statement asking officials to arrange for the reopening of ‘madrassas, private and public schools and other academic institutions of the country.”

However, the order has no mention of girls and only asks male staff and students to attend schools.

Ever since the Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan on August 15, women’s rights and education has been a centre of debate as the militant group said that women will be granted rights only under Sharia law.

In the newly instated all-male Taliban government, there’s no ministry for women affairs as they believe “women have no place in the society.’