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Few popular lies about the ban on women's education in Afghanistan dispelled: 1 - "It is not a ban, it's just temporary". This is a lie because there is no evidence of any kind of action being taken to reopen schools and universities for girls. 2 - "We are trying to create a suitable environment befitting an Islamic society". This is a lie because schools were already segregated for boys & girls. If it was about lack of female teachers, then the current ban only worsens the situation by preventing women from graduating to meet the demand for more female teachers 3 - "We are changing the curriculum to get rid of un-Islamic material". This is a lie, because if the curriculum is un-Islamic, then all schools should have been closed. How come boys are being exposed to the same alleged un-Islamic curriculum? 4 - "Girls' schools must re-open because then, the international community will recognise our government." This is a lie, because education for girls is a necessity to meet the demands of Afghanistan in sectors such a healthcare. Education should not be a bargain cheap to appease countries that are imposing sanctions to starve those very same Afghan girls to death as a form of collective punishment. 5 - "The ban is due to hatred of women and the desire to subjugate them." This is a lie because the people who don't want women to go to schools do so out of distrust for modern education and its detrimental influence on a traditional society where women's unique role is devalued. According to them, when women no longer have the honorable and revered status as mothers, they are reduced to mere wage-earners in a atomised immoral materialistic society. 6 - "Afghan society is generally opposed to women's education." This is a lie because even in the most remote and most conservative pockets of rural Afghanistan, people have expressed the desire to let girls to go to school. The opposition to education is more based on distrust towards the influences of a materialist modern world. This is why religious education is preferred by opponents of regular schools. 7 - "Girls education is not sustainable because the government doesn't have the financial means to keep schools open." This is a lie because the government has banned public and private schools. So it's not about school funding. 8 - "We should fund secret schools to let girls learn". This is a lie because if schools are secret, who is going to guarantee safety and quality of the education? What purpose do such secret schools serve when anybody can decide for themselves to organise schools based on their own ideas? The purpose of public and mass education is to homogenise and organise society. If education is not based on the needs of a society, then its more harmful than no education because it will only further alienate and polarise society.