Thank you so much for asking that question, Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe. I appreciate it.
The reason the Taliban has banned women's sports is that women's sports are forbidden under the Taliban's sharia law, because they send sexual vibes to men. Women's sports bring visibility to women's bodies, and that is haram—according to their interpretation of sharia law, not the modern Islam. Therefore, they're at high risk. They're in danger.
One of the members of our volleyball team was murdered suspiciously when the Taliban took over, and the rest are in hiding. One of the members of our volleyball team recently sent me a picture of herself. The Taliban found her and they beat her and she had bruises all over her body.
What I would like to see is for Canada to honour its promises. Canada promised that they will evacuate women leaders and human rights defenders. Athletes are human rights defenders. I was a human rights defender, because my participation at the Olympic Games as the first Afghan woman brought Afghanistan back to the world arena, to world sport, for the first time after the fall of the Taliban, and that inspired hundreds of Afghan women to join sports. It was a sports revolution.
Now we're all going backwards. When the Taliban returned, it felt like Afghanistan was hit by a giant meteorite and it set us back 30 years.