Cempaka Belanda: Taliban ready to lift ban on girls' schools, says minister

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Taliban ready to lift ban on girls' schools, says minister

Afghanistan minister claims leadership has undergone 'cultural change' and no longer opposes female education

guardian.co.uk, Jon Boone in Kabul, Thursday 13 January 2011 18.15 GMT

Afghan girls at Markaz high school in Bamiyan. Experts say that the attitude of the Taliban towards women’s education has always been far more ambivalent than popularly understood. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

The Taliban's leadership is prepared to drop its ban on girls' schools, one of Afghanistan's most influential cabinet ministers has claimed.

According to Farooq Wardak, the country's education minister, the movement has decided to scrap the ban on female education that helped earn the movement worldwide infamy in the 1990s.

Wardak said the Taliban's leadership had undergone a profound change since losing power after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

"It is attitudinal change, it is behavioural change, it is cultural change," he told the Times Educational Supplement.

"What I am hearing at the very upper policy level of the Taliban is that they are no more opposing education and also girls' education."

The minister, who is one of the most trusted members of Hamid Karzai's inner circle, has a key role in official efforts to bring the Taliban to peace talks.

The movement's two spokesmen were unavailable for comment today and the Taliban have never made any public statements that back up Wardak's claim.

Alex Strick van Linschoten, a leading analyst of the Taliban, said an announcement was unlikely in the near future.

"They are unlikely to announce things like this since it will all come up in any potential negotiations and this is one 'concession' they could make to the foreigners," he said.

Experts say that the attitude of the conservative Islamic movement towards women's education has always been far more ambivalent than popularly understood.

Mullah Zaeef, a former high-ranking Taliban official who served as Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan in 2001, said the movement was not against educating women and that the ban on girls' schools was only a "temporary measure".

Analysts say the policy was largely due to Taliban concerns about boys and girls being educated together and male teachers overseeing female classes.

The movement claimed it would establish a new national education system after it had brought stability to a country where internal conflict continued right up until the US-led invasion of 2001.

Even then some senior members of the regime were known to be extremely unhappy with the policy.

"When I was in Islamabad I spoke to many foreign embassies to see if they were interested in funding girls' schools, but they weren't interested," Zaeef said.

Amir Mansory, an education expert at the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, which has supported schools in the country for decades, said 33,000 girls continued to go to school in the late 1990s, despite the official ban.

"It was a sort of hidden policy," Mansory said. "No one said girls could go to school, but in the provinces Taliban officials would approach me asking for the Swedish Committee's help in supporting girls' schools."

And while insurgents have closed down many schools around the country in recent years, Mansory said they have been actively supported in some Taliban-controlled areas, including in Paktika and Wardak provinces.

"I personally think the Taliban are not against education but simply against a western type of education," Mansory said. "And if local people want to educate their girls the Taliban know they can't do anything to stop that."

Analysts report that some local insurgent leaders have struck deals with Wardak's education ministry to keep schools open.

Phil Priestley, a researcher with the Tribal Liaison Office, this summer found large numbers of girls' schools open for business in the largely Taliban-controlled district of Chardara in Kunduz province.

Taliban officials even patrolled schools with attendance sheets and hauled truanting boys from their homes. Girls, on the other hand, were merely encouraged through their local communities to attend school.

But public acceptance of female education by the Taliban would be seen as a milestone, particularly by western nations anxious that any peace deal does not undermine the rights of women.

Taliban leaders have already rethought many of their notorious policies of the 1990s, Strick van Linschoten said. For example, during the Taliban government mobile phones and video were considered un-Islamic but both technologies are now used extensively by insurgents.

"In addition to this, their rethink of the official relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaida has been among the more significant developments," Strick van Linschoten said.

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