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US denies visas to Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:00 am
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:00 am
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Six teenage girls from Afghanistan planned to come to the US to compete in the First Global Challenge robotics competition this month, but those plans were canceled after they were denied visas to enter the country. Forbes reports that the girls traveled 500 miles to Kabul for their visa interviews, and that their robot’s supplies were held in customs for months.
This kit, which the competition organizers issued to every participating team, included different components, like brackets, extrusions, fastening hardware, hardware adaptors, bearings, wheels of different sizes, gears, pulleys, motors, servos, and sprockets. The State Department feared ISIS might try to use these parts on the battlefield, which is why they delayed sending them to the girls.
Still, the team built a ball-sorting robot on a shortened timeline; their kit only arrived three weeks ago. More than 100 other teams have entered the competition, including participants from Iraq, Iran, and Sudan. The girls’ robot will still compete, but the team will only be able to watch over a video call from their homes in Herat, Afghanistan.
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Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:03 am to Street Hawk
Good, Muslims+Robotics = trouble.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:04 am to Street Hawk
I think one already made it here.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:04 am to Street Hawk
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robots
Like a clock?
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:05 am to Street Hawk
Afghan girls in school, suspicious. Enough for plane tickets, doubly suspicious. Robots? Trouble
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:06 am to DavidTheGnome
So ridiculous, these girls should be championed. They are a prime example of the benefits of US intervention in Afghanistan (the education and greater freedom for Girls/Women).
America’s greatest and most important export has for the last century been ideas. Be it through media, example or direct interaction, America has always had a powerful tool in its cultural export. At its best it achieves examples like this, but the great irony is the same people bolstering these sort of isolationist policies are the same people who consistently praising western ideology. They’re cutting off their nose to spite their face if they believe western ideas have a sort of universal value, because if that’s the case then isolating yourself from the rest of the world is only going to lessen your influence and impact on the rest of the world. This all womans robotics team is something to be championed and celebrated, it’s a result of successful US influence and now we’re turning them away. It’s sad and disgraceful.
America’s greatest and most important export has for the last century been ideas. Be it through media, example or direct interaction, America has always had a powerful tool in its cultural export. At its best it achieves examples like this, but the great irony is the same people bolstering these sort of isolationist policies are the same people who consistently praising western ideology. They’re cutting off their nose to spite their face if they believe western ideas have a sort of universal value, because if that’s the case then isolating yourself from the rest of the world is only going to lessen your influence and impact on the rest of the world. This all womans robotics team is something to be championed and celebrated, it’s a result of successful US influence and now we’re turning them away. It’s sad and disgraceful.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:06 am to Street Hawk
Ok. We'll go compete with the Euros
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:08 am to Deuces
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I think one already made it here.
Somebody should tell them Obama's cause and we aren't dumb enough to fall for this anymore.
Travel Ban ftw!
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:24 am to Lou Pai
Yes, these are exactly the same!
Idiot
Idiot
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:26 am to Street Hawk
My God, our government is so incompetent it can't vet 6 girls?
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:31 am to DavidTheGnome
quote:You serious Clark?
Afghan girls in school, suspicious
One of the big no-no's for terrorists is educating women. It makes them harder to control. The fact that these girls are in school makes them less suspicious, not more so.
I understand that this is an unfortunate side effect of the necessary travel ban, but we needn't attack the girls for it. They are likely to be the type of afghans we want to be befriending, not alienating
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:34 am to funnystuff
I'm all for temporary anything when it comes to border security.
Just be better when it's done
Just be better when it's done
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:37 am to Street Hawk
It's a clock you bigots
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:40 am to UHTiger
Not exactly the same, but pretty similar. Robots can be used as weapons bro, just like clocks.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:44 am to Street Hawk
This makes me so happy
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:45 am to Street Hawk
Good. Freedom starts at home. Get together in your country and fight for the freedom you want like that is here in the US.
Yes some of them will die but freedom comes at cost.
Yes some of them will die but freedom comes at cost.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 11:00 am to Street Hawk
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Forbes reports that the girls traveled 500 miles to Kabul for their visa interviews, and that their robot’s supplies were held in customs for months.
So, was it the Obama administration that kept them out? The article is curiously uninformative about this.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 11:06 am to Street Hawk
Look, son, there's going to be some collateral damage.
Pull your panties out your pussy.
Pull your panties out your pussy.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 11:21 am to Street Hawk
I don't care. That's life
Posted on 7/1/17 at 11:34 am to Covingtontiger77
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Good. Freedom starts at home. Get together in your country and fight for the freedom you want like that is here in the US. Yes some of them will die but freedom comes at cost.
We are talking about 6 GIRLS here, right?
This post was edited on 7/1/17 at 11:35 am
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