Escape from Misogynistan into Freedom and Respect
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Nadia Nadim was born in Afghanistan.
Her father was killed by the Talibans when she was eleven years old.
Luckly, though, her family managed to fee to Denmark.
She could have blamed life for her cruel destiny, instead she decided to carry on as best as she could, taking full advantage of every opportunity that her new country and freedom offered to her.
Nowadays she is an exceptional female footballer that has represented the Danish national football team ninety-nine times playing in Denmark, USA, England and France as well for seven top football European and American clubs, scoring thirty-eight goals.
At the age of thirty-four, she gained a degree in medicine specializing in plastic surgery.
She also speaks eleven languages: English German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Persian, Dari, Urdu, Hindi and Arab).
Her life achievements should serve as an example to the brutal and oppressive regime of the Talibans that take away from women the most basic human rights, including the right to education, showing to them than when women are given equal rights, they can be equal and even much better than men.
Misogyny is an evil and obtuse form of discrimination that throughout all history has oppressed women treating them like objects.
One can only speculate with imagination how far ahead in civilization humankind would be if women had been considered totally equals to men, and how much less suffering there would have been in the world.
If her family hadn’t managed to escape to Denmark, Nadia Nadim nowadays would be living like a forced recluse in her own house, fully covered from head to feet in order to avoid showing in public even her face and eyes and totally unable to purse her lifestyle dreams.
A great talent that would have been wasted by an oppressive, misogynist, cruel regime whose insane suffocating restrictions of even the most basic human rights have nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings that the Talibans falsely declare to follow.
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I am glad you are bringing this extremely important topic up in your blog post. Sadly, because of this attitude, women have had to pretend they were men to write books and rule countries. I remember reading about Hatshepsut in the 1400s dressing like a man to rule as a pharaoh, and Charley Parkhurst pretending to be a man to be a legendary six-horse stagecoach driver during California’s Gold Rush and the Bronte Sister authors who used male names (Bell brothers) to publish their books. And this is just but a tiny list. I look forward to the day that misogyny no longer exists.
So true Pamela.
There have been a few exceptional women in history who achieved great things by disguising as men in order to achieve their dreams.
Without any shade of doubt, the misogynist suppression of women’s rights has been the greatest shame in the history of humanity and an immeasurable loss to civilization.
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Thank you for you comment Tina
Although women have been denied rights throughout the all course of human history, never the suppression of their rights in brutality and absurdity has been as oppressive as in nowadays Afghanistan.
Even their right to education has been been away. A callous denial of a basic human rights that goes against the teaching of the Koran that states that :”Education is not only the right, but the duty of every Muslim, male or female.”
This means that according to their religion the Talibans are the sinners.
That is why everyone living in a civilized world of equal rights and opportunities for all, in whatever way they can must strongly voice and make clear their opposition to such abhorrent regime.
If not and they close a blind eye to such injustices, they are in the category of those described by the saying that states that: “Those who are silent consent.
By suppressing 50% of the country’s population I.e. females the country is wasting and squandering a vast pool of resources that can benefit not only their country but maybe more people across the world. Gender is no measure for deciding intelligence, creativity, and worth. Females are equal, and as such require opportunities, education, inspiration and above agency and autonomy. There should be no allocation of gender prescribed role models, gender does not equip anyone to be able to cook & iron any person can do these types of mundane tasks. Women are deserving of respect and dignity and need to be valued and supported to achieve their full potential
It is admirable the testimony of Nadia Nadim it will inspire many women that are trapped in the world of discrimination and bad treatment, in some cases not even as a human being; God blessed Nadia for shearing her history of brevity and resilience.
It is indeed devastating to realise that people, especially women, are still being oppressed in many countries around the world. And even when they aren’t limited in their rights and freedoms, they still have to struggle with other issues. Any kind of effort aimed at categorising is doomed to failure because there are always exceptions to every rule. Someone gains and someone loses.
The world needs to learn about more inspiring stories, such as the one you shared here.