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It's worth pointing out that the Muslims in the area clearly sent girls to school before the Taliban moved in, so it's not a function of poverty or local conditions - it's a radical ideology that has taken over.
That said, it's hard not to find Islam and the Islamic world at fault for a lot of misogyny. It's incredible the amount of things that we take for granted in the West that just don't exist in even the most liberal and secularized Middle Eastern countries.
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