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Hundreds of Afghan women wearing full-face veils forced to take part in pro-Taliban rally outside a university flanked by armed fanatics.

The Taliban's acting education minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, while laying out the new policy at a news conference in Kabul, defended the segregation of students by gender, contending that coeducation is against Islamic tenants and Afghan cultural traditions.

The minister said that only women teachers will be allowed to teach female students and there will be no shortage of women teachers. But, if it is really required, men will also be permitted to teach women without violating Islamic law.

"They (male teachers) can also teach but in accordance with Sharia. They should teach from behind a curtain or use (video) screens and other such facilities," Haqqani said.

He stressed his government intends to preserve the gains Afghanistan has made in the education sector over the past 20 years but there will be no coeducation in the country.

Since returning to power nearly a month ago, the Taliban have promised to defend human rights and allow women to study or work so they can remain part of the global community and continue to receive financial assistance to deal with multiple crises facing the country.

Haqqani said that gender segregation would be enforced across the county and all subjects being taught currently would also be reviewed in the coming months. He did not elaborate.

"I did not slam BLM. I slammed arrogant white people for thinking black people give an F about them mattering to white liberals or racists," McGowan said, reacting to Fox News coverage of her joint media conference with California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder. The news article she was angry about was headlined "Rose McGowan slams Black Lives Matter alongside Larry Elder: 'He might just know more than you.'"

The issue of Black Lives Matter was brought after Elder rebuked the Democratic party for "playing the race card" to boost the black vote, which he said went against progress in civil rights.

"Racial justice, that's what this party is all about. And they divided this country," he said. "We have far more in common than we have apart."

Elder said after electing a black person for president, Americans "can now deal with people based on the content of character, not the color of skin. Instead Democrats have doubled down... on things like Critical Race Theory and reparation."

As she supported the sentiment, McGowan predicted that "mostly white people who work in the media will disavow that. But understand who it's coming from and that he just might know more than you living in a different skin."

"Most people don't want to hear that. They want to hear that the more we micro-label each other, the better we'll be," she added. "If you truly want to get past racial barriers, be fair in coverage. Be honest."

McGowan sees American society as deeply corrupted, with powerful elites deliberately keeping the common people ignorant and divided so that they can be preyed upon with ease. Much of the activism ostensibly promoting racial justice is part of this system, she believes, treating people of color with condescension and pitting them and working class white people against each other.

A vocal critic of both major parties in the US, McGowan previously took flack from the Left for going to Fox News to denounce both Democrats and Republicans. The news channel is perceived as a dishonest mouthpiece of the GOP by many Democrats, so a person who gets involved with it, regardless of their past, gets instantly flagged as an enemy by the blue camp.

During the conference with Elder, McGowan called out this treatment, saying the left failed to see the partisanship of their own media sources. "You are a part of it," she said, addressing journalists, when talking about a "dirty fight" against Elder's candidacy. Elder was branded "the black face of white supremacy" by hostile media during the campaign.

"It does not make it OK that the New York Times has 98.5% of its readers identify as Democrats. But people yell about Fox News that only the Republicans are watching, right?" McGowan noted.

The newspaper's audience is strongly left-leaning, though not necessarily to the extent that McGowan stated. A Pew poll last year showed that 91% of people, who considered the Times their primary news source, were Democrats. The same metric for Fox News and Republicans was 93%.

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