Malalaia Joya er et eksempel på det nye Afghanistan, men det samme gælder for Omar, som er en dreng, jeg lærte at kende, da Taleban-styret stadig var der. Omar sagde følgende: "Jeg vil leve.
If Malalaia Joya is an example of the new Afghanistan, so too is Omar, a boy I got to know when the Taliban were still there, and who said: ‘I want to live: it is not only for the women that I am fighting against the Taliban, it is also for myself, because I do not want to have a beard and I want to listen to music.’