School girls from Afghanistan built a solar powered robot. That's news because this is something which is very hard to do in the absence of the many privileges that would make such an achievement easy.
> That they were denied entry in the US?
Yes. That too is news worthy and was covered extensively.
> Should we feel bad about it or what?
Maybe. But rather than feeling bad wouldn't it be better to celebrate this, promote this and encourage things like this until a time that such things are common place enough to not be news worthy?
School girls from Afghanistan built a solar powered robot. That's news because this is something which is very hard to do in the absence of the many privileges that would make such an achievement easy.
> That they were denied entry in the US?
Yes. That too is news worthy and was covered extensively.
> Should we feel bad about it or what?
Maybe. But rather than feeling bad wouldn't it be better to celebrate this, promote this and encourage things like this until a time that such things are common place enough to not be news worthy?