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Malalai Joya is a 25 year old muslim woman elected from the province of Farah for the Afghan Loya Jirga. She is the daughter of an Afghan who lost a leg in the Afghan Jihad. She has no political affiliations with any political parties but represents the most rudimentary class -the barefooted, weakest, silent, poorest Afghans. She founded an orphanage in Farah while she was a teenager. She has worked for 4 years in Afghan refugee camps. She taught social sciences for 2 years in Herat under the pretext of a religious school without the Taliban permission. She stands for FREEDOM OF SPEECH, DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, against WAR CRIMINALS , against those who have misused the name of Islam and ruined the name of the true Jihad, and against those who oppress women.
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