It is fairly common to see the tribal regions of Pakistan described as "lawless," as this story does. But while the central government may not have meaningful authority in the area, it is not lawlessness, per se, that is the issue. Instead, it is the imposition by force of Sharia law.
"Militants blow up Pakistan girls school: officials," from Agence France-Presse, November 1:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Islamist militants blew up a girls school in Pakistan's lawless Khyber tribal district Sunday, destroying the building and wounding four people in neighbouring homes, officials said.
Two explosions ripped through the 18-room government high school for girls at Kari Gar village and a boy who watched the premises is missing, possibly kidnapped by the militants, local administration officials said.
"The militants have blown up the school with two blasts and all rooms were demolished," said administration official Shafeer Ullah.
"Four people in neighbouring houses were also wounded and their homes slightly damaged. We're still trying to find out what happened to the office boy," Ullah told AFP.
Another of Khyber's administrators, Farooq Khan, confirmed the incident.
Islamist militants, who have carved out a strong presence in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border, have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years.
Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in the Swat valley alone during a two-year Taliban uprising to enforce sharia law in a district once favoured by Western tourists for its ski slopes and bracing mountain air....
This is the jihadists' idea of "progress."
Howdy Dowdy,
Why would women possibly need to be educated? Unless of course, in the "finer arts of pleasuring a man, cooking delicious meals, laundering soiled drawers to make them the whitest white." In effect, being a slave to a slave called Abdullah.
muslimas are 1/2 the worth of muslim men, and nothing more than baby-producing slaves, unable to leave islam without the required apostasy sentence of death.
Jew Lover
Come on Germaine Greer, where are you?!
If someone wants "ski slopes and bracing mountain air," there are many other places in the world untainted by Islam that are safer and surely more beautiful.
Hey, there's nothing in the Koran about blowing up schools for girls. Hey, there's nothing in the Koran about honor killings. Hey, there's nothing in the Koran about killing someone for leaving Islam (just for treason, you know). Hey, there's nothing in the Koran about.....
Sick of this stuff? I sure am.
"Islamist militants, who have carved out a strong presence in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border, have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years."
Clearly, the Muslims do not want education , especially education for girls, to interfere with the their Islam...Are the Muslims defending their religion from education?
Islam...feel the love?..
Wellington, I am definitely sick of this stuff. Literally everyday the barbarism of Islam rears its ugly head, claiming even more Muslim and infidel lives and then we get the usual garbage and apologetics from idiotic dhimmi Westerners, whitewashing evil Islamic barbarity.
As you said recently, even if most people knew 75% of Islam (or even less, as I am hardly even there in terms of knowing Islam as Robert or Hugh do although I've read, witnessed and seen enough to know and recognise Islam wherever Islamic Jihad strikes), people and governments would take appropriate measures to defend our civilisation from certain destruction.
As our good friend Winston Churchill once wrote: "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many
countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet
rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid
qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa,
raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell
the civilization of ancient Rome."
- Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
Enough said.
It has been confirmed by Pakistan's FM today that the total number of schools destroyed by the Taliban in Malarkand and FATA (the Federally Aministered Tribal Areas - Swat etc.) now stands at a total of 473.
Needless to say the overwhelming majority of these were girls' schools.
Thank you, Marisol, for this post. Yes, I'm weary of all of this as well but I keep coming to this forum because we have a unique opportunity in our time to halt and reverse the spread of this poison. We MUST learn more about this madness and apply the treatment. The time is NOW, not later. I don't want future generations to be as unprepared and as un-aware as I was.
Has Robert or Hugh or anyone else here already posted an argument for de-legitimizing islum as a religion? I don't mean criminalizing it, I mean just end izlum's privileges in the USA as a tax exempt entity. End izlum's freedom to purchase and own property in the US. End izlum's freedom to have parochial schools in the US. End izlum's freedom to receive tax-exempt donations and offerings in the good ole' USA. Though extremely difficult, I think it can be done. I want to believe the case can be won - right up through the Supreme Court - that izlum uniquely is NOT a 'religion' but is actually a very intolerant, anti-democratic, anti-constitution, anti-western-values, anti-FAMILY-values political ideology of violence, hatred and oppression. But again, I'm not talking about criminalization of this 'religion'. (At least, not yet)
So, my questions are: "Would this be too dangerous a precedent to set?" "Has such a de-legitimization otherwise already been done in the case of other intolerant, racist, fascist, supremacist psuedo-religions?" "If so, what was the effect upon the freedom of practice of other 'religions'?" and, of course "What would be the danger to our constitution by the 'de-legitimization' of this racially offensive, fundamentally intolerant, profoundly anti-American, fascist, supremacist, imperialist psuedo-religion?" (And, did I use enough qualifiers in describing it? LOL!)
Thanks!
Wonderin1
Certainly I'm not an expert on the concept but I'll bet that someone else here IS and that if the question hasn't already been discussed, then, most certainly we CAN discuss it here. After all, we're still free. At least for now.
This is the so-called 'dignity' (trotted out by islamic apologists) offered to the women in Islam.
Dalia Mogahed, how do you explain this bombing of 473 schools in Pakistan?
It is a refrain that goes out again and again. Of course, the people who make such claims rarely if ever go out to the parties who blow themselves up or cause general mayhem to explain the error of their ways. In fact, their croakings are meant only for unwary unbelieving ears. It is a fifth column activity, and should be viewed as such.
Oh, there is stuff in the Qur'an about killing apostates (5:33) and honor killings (I believe 18:80), but nothing there about blowing up schools for girls. However, since it does describe women as tilth (2:223), one could rationally conclude that educating women would be haram.
"...and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome." - Winston Churchill
Unfortunately, the "science" doesn't matter anymore.
Our Mohammedan president praised Islamic "science" in his lie-filled propagandistic Cairo speech.
Next, concerning: "the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
What do you think is happening right now? Churchill never dreamed of civilization-killers called "political correctness" and "multiculturalism." He never dreamed that the West would be so stupid as to permit millions of over-breeding Muslims to infiltrate Western lands.
Sorry about my pessimism, but I see what's happening in Western Europe, and I can't deny the reality of the situation, as horrible as it is.
How many schools and hospitals has the US distroyed in the corse of the Iran/Iraq war and the Afganistan war?
Proveit-good question-but you are comparing apples to oranges. The schools are targets for the taliban, not the case for the US.
What is each parties intent- taliban to blow up the schools-US rooting is out evil islamists.
Ask this question-
How many schools have the US rebuilt?
How many schools have the taliban rebuilt?
LOL...this article is about not about how many the US has destroyed but I would venture to say it no where near the total the towelban have and I would even venture to say that the US has built more than they destroyed. I give you a lot of credit to try and defend the towelban, the indefenseible. Simply unbelievable that you could even try. Once a mohammedan always a mohammedan I guess. By the way, unfortunately, we are not warring with Iran (just Iraq and that ended a long time ago).
The Taliban are just trying to keep Allah happy...Allah creates women stupid because of what Eve did with the snake and the tree in the garden. If Allah wanted women to have an education, he would create them smart. But no, he 'afflicted' Eve. Eve did not go to school..The Taliban are going about Allah's business by blowing up girls schools...Keeping muslimahs stupid, barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen, and always available...It's the Islamic way...
I agree, wonderin1.
The devil, however, is in the details. What we would be contemplating is allowing the government to decide what is a religion and what is not a religion. I, personally, believe that Islam is not a religion in that it requires death for apostates and is so violent that over the past 1400 years, muslims have killed over 270 million people in their goal to establish a worldwide Islamic state. To me, if we "pretend" that Islam is a religion, we should all so prepare to "pretend" that Communism, Nazism and any other "cult of the leader" movement are also religions.
I am a little nervous about ceding such decisions to the current administration, though.
In the US, anyone can found a religion, and you can give yourself any title you want, Priest, Deacon, Reverend, Imam etc. You need no ones permission to do this...However, if you want to receive donations, and file for a tax exempt status, you do have to fulfill certain requirements...You have to have a board of directors, also recruit, produce literature, have regular meetings and a few others, but not necessarily all of them...Once you get approved, you can operate your religion as if the IRS didn't exist...Islam qualifies for all this...Sweet...'If you want to get rich...start your own religion'...That's what Mahound did and look how well it worked for him...
Efoc - you may like to know, if you do not already know, that the 1899 edition of Churchill's 'The River Wars' has been reprinted in a complete unexpurgated scholarly edition, by the 'St Augustine's Press' of, I think, the University of Chicago.
http://www.staugustine.net/theriverwar.html
It is NOT cheap.
However, if anyone here can afford it, it's probably well worth the buy...and if it should happen that a librarian, especially a university or college librarian, or anyone who has responsibility for training soldiers who will be going into Afghanistan or Iraq, reads this notice, then I beg of you, get it. Your readers will thank you.
The 1899 edition is scarce as hen's teeth and all subsequent versions of the book were severely abridged...and bowdlerised; so a modern re-issue of the 1899 original, containing (as the description primly puts it) Churchill's "thoughts on Islamic fundamentalism" is long overdue.
hmmmm, Proveit sounds eerily like "defenderofislam"...
proveit is an idiot.
nabi ZK (pb&j)
acknowledged...
proveit asks:
"How many schools and hospitals has the US distroyed in the corse of the Iran/Iraq war and the Afganistan war?"
None that haven't been used by Muslims as a base to launch mortars and missiles or any that have held Muslim machine guns attacking people or vehicles....