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Taleban 'will kill school girls'
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... comments broadcast on an illegal radio station, he threatened to blow up schools which enrolled female students. This year alone, Taleban militants have destroyed more than 130 schools in the Swat valley. They want to bring in Islamic sharia law in the region. Although schools for girls have come under attack on numerous occasions in the past, this is the first time Taleban militants have issued a complete ban on girls attending them, the BBC's Ethirajan Anbarasan says. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7799926.stm
The Taliban Declare Jihad on...Little Girls!
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily —
... for being terrified of Christmas ornaments that emphasize commonalities between Islam and Christianity, I come across an even more disgusting phobia. The Taliban are so terrified of school girls that they are declaring jihad against them: ...
Taliban In Pakistan Will Start Killing School Girls On January 15th
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
BBC News:
Taleban ‘will kill school girls’
Taleban militants in the Swat valley in north-west Pakistan have threatened to kill girls who attend school.
A local Taleban commander ordered parents to stop sending their daughters to school by 15 January.
In comments broadcast on an illegal radio station, he threatened to blow up schools which enrolled female students.
This year alone, Taleban militants have destroyed more than 130 schools in the Swat valley. They want to bring in Islamic sharia law ...
We will kill you if you go to school
Crooked Timber —
... Take the latest one from the Taliban: they have warned that in North-West Pakistan they will kill all girls who still go to school on January 15th, and that they will blow up schools who will enrol female students after that date. Now one would hope they wouldn’t have the capacity to execute such a threat, yet surely they will be able to kill some girls, just as they’ve killed so many other targets. It is just very sad that these things continue to happen when we are entering 2009. It reached the newspapers and the 8 o’clock news here in the ...
Video: Jihadi car bomber liberates Afghanistan from 14 schoolchildren
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... . The car approaches in the distance; the kids are walking along the wall in the lower right of the frame. Watch as he very patiently weaves his way through barriers to get to them. I wonder if he saw them as a target of opportunity or if this was part of the new “no girls allowed” policy. Yahoo News has ...
Repeating History in Afghanistan
The Moderate Voice —
I’m sometimes at a loss for words when writing about Afghanistan because I have family there, because I know many ordinary Afghans see the United States as an unwelcome occupying force at this point, because I believe that we’ve seriously dropped the ball and have an obligation to ensure the Taliban never regains power, and because I don’t have a clue what the right strategy is.
That’s why reading articles like this one pisses me off to no end. A snippet:
Taleban militants in the Swat valley in north-west Pakistan have ...
