A solution for Afghanistan, and maybe the rest of the Muslim world

It is Mother's Day in the US today, and I think that also applies in Germany. Not in the UK though - that was already March 18th.

I do not really notice it these days. My mother died in 2000 (that long ago already - sadly missed though for her kind heart and her perennial belief in the good in people). My wife and I have no children, so nobody is round fussing about her.

As I have made clear on here enough times though I appreciate the opposite sex as much as any man living. My head still turns when an attractive young woman walks past (old wolves can still dream! In vain, of course!!!), and I appreciate them for their brains as well! (Good job my wife is at work at the moment, I might attract some unwanted attention for the first part of that comment!).

There are more women in just about every country in the world who make it to higher education than men, and the percentage is rising in their favour as the years go by. This is talent that the world cannot afford to waste and it should be developed in a proper context.

And on contexts - I just watched an item from Euronews on YouTube about Afghanistan. Yet another person who has been trying to negotiate peace with the Taliban has been murdered. It is a country almost without hope, but there was another Euronews item last week indicating that they have risen from being the poorest country in the world by a couple of notches. One of the reasons being the increased number of women playing an economic role in the country (and the advanced educational opportunities that girls are getting should help this momentum, the number in schools has risen from zero to some 2,500,000 since the Taliban were driven out!).

What I would really like to see for Afghanistan would be -

the country run completely by women for five years at least! Men would be forced to stay home, cover their entire anatomies so nothing could be seen, and they could spend their time bringing up their kids! Education would be given as a priority to girls (they tend to do better in schools - see above - so the limited resources available for education would not be wasted!).

If this proved successful, the experiment could be tried across the rest of the Muslim world. It would also have the distinct advantage that people in parts of the West (I won't upset my American friends by naming which countries in particular....) would not need to have the irrational fear of attack coming from that part of the world, as women tend to be less belligerent (there are exceptions - think of the  wretched Margaret Thatcher in the UK in the 1980s!).

I think that this is a brilliant idea. Like many brilliant ideas it sadly will go nowhere, but it is at least worth trying!