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The price of trying to get an education
More on this story. "Acid attack girl vows to continue school," from the Gulf Times, November 15 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
KABUL: An Afghan teenager whose face was burned in an acid attack by suspected extremists vowed from her hospital bed yesterday to continue going to school even if it put her life in danger.They only threaten to "do such a cowardly thing against girls and children"; but surely they would never really act on such threats??Men on motorbikes used a water pistol to spray acid into the faces of Shamsia and around dozen other girls as they arrived at school wearing all-covering burqas in Kandahar on Wednesday.
Shamsia, 17, was the most badly wounded and had some acid enter her eyes. She was transferred to a military hospital in Kabul where she was visited yesterday by other schoolgirls, accompanied by media.
"I will go to my school if they kill me," she told reporters. "My message for the enemies is that if they do this 100 times, I am still going to continue my studies."
It is not clear who carried out the attack which President Hamid Karzai and other officials blamed on the "enemies of Afghanistan" - a broad term that most often refers to extremist Taliban insurgents.
However a Taliban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, said by telephone his group would "never do such a cowardly thing against girls and children".
The conservative Islamic 1996-2001 Taliban regime stopped girls from going to school. The education sector has since become among the main targets of a wave of unrest linked to an insurgency led by the hardliners.This year around 115 schools have been set on fire, bombed or bulldozed in attacks education ministry spokesman Hamed Elmi blamed on "the opposition".
About 120 people in the education sector have been killed in attacks, he said.
Security fears have caused more than 640 schools to close, most of them in volatile districts in the south and east of the country, Elmi said.
Posted by Raymond at November 15, 2008 11:31 PM
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Islam: only able to survive by keeping women in the dark.
Knowledge is the dawn that dooms Mohammadism.
Vampires always try to prevent the spread of sunlight.
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at November 16, 2008 12:12 AM
Wouldn't it be nice if women in Muslim countries started bombing the islamic hierarchy and cutting off their balls.
Posted by: leon at November 16, 2008 12:55 AM
Heartbreaking.
Whats even worse when this case was brought to the attention of American feminists, they were outraged and baffled at the same time. Reading their posts at one well known blog they had no idea Islam was so brutal towards women.
And they had no idea that Karzai had been appointing Taliban Imans as judges and made the shariah the law of the land which promotes such monsterous behavior towards women and non-believers.
All in all the liberal left has done a good job keeping womens rights activists(excluding NOW) in the dark in regards to Islam.
Posted by: waltc at November 16, 2008 2:30 AM
Do you suppose that those who head feminist organizations will begin to note the horror of Islamic behavior toward women? I suppose that some leaders have, while others focus on the important task of undermining JudeoChristian culture.
Posted by: StillBreathing at November 16, 2008 2:33 AM
Melanie Phillips on 20 years of "progress":
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2680221/an-age-of-barbarism.thtml
Posted by: StillBreathing at November 16, 2008 3:01 AM
Brave girl, if everyone were to follow her example. Learn to read your Qur'an, especially Sura 7:157 and if you can get hold of a New Testament - question why you can't - compare and contrast your propet to him and then read a Bible. Good luck, girl, and all like you.
Posted by: snufkin at November 16, 2008 4:56 AM
problem in America,,IT"S TOO LATE,,,,we are doomed !
Posted by: Gorgon Zola at November 16, 2008 5:10 AM
all commenters don't realize,,its too late,,we are finished,we are done
Posted by: Gorgon Zola at November 16, 2008 5:13 AM
Poor thing, how brave she is! Her courage is humbling. When I think of how I used to have to nag my darling daughter to get up, get out of bed, get ready for school. Our kids don't realize how fortunate they are.
This 17 year old girl has enough courage to speak out and stand up tho the Taliban. What the hell is wrong with the rest of Afghanistan?
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at November 16, 2008 8:12 AM
I've been reading about acid attacks on females in Pakistan for many years now. Apparently they have graduated into Afghanistan.
The only males I have ever read about throwing acid on females are Islamic males.
Utter and complete Barbarians.
Posted by: darcy at November 16, 2008 9:49 AM
Don't hold your breath waiting for Western Feminists to say anything about this. They are too busy with the real important stuff, like trying to stop men from urinating while standing up.
Posted by: Balrog at November 16, 2008 10:27 AM
Shamsia is a brave courageous woman who deserves everything good that life can bring to her. If all Infidels were as bold as she, Islam would have been disassembled ages ago.
She is a real Warrior!!
Speaking of warriors:
Taliban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, said by telephone his group would "never do such a cowardly thing against girls and children".
Mr Ahmadi's statement indicates that he is on the side of the "girls and children." I wonder if his empathy extends so far as offering to help to find and punish the acid-throwers, and then to admonish others that such attacks are prohibited by the Taliban.
I also wonder if Mr Ahmadi might declare that acid-throwing was just a bad idea in all cases, that women in general just don't deserve such violence...
I predict that I will be wondering for a long time.
Posted by: Jockaira at November 16, 2008 10:42 AM
stillbreathing
thanks for the Melanie Philips column. This paragraph soars to the level of "J'accuse!" A good answer to the question 'why don't progressives know or care about these Muslim attacks on women?' They have helped create a society in which poor British women and children are even more at risk.
"The truth is that it is all far, far too late. Britain has simply undone the fabric of civilised life. And the most bitter reproach of all must be for the people at whose door the ultimate responsibility for this catastrophic state of affairs must really be laid -- not the wretched politicians, not the council officials or Ofsted inspectors or other negligent or incompetent professionals, not even the sadists who actually killed baby P or who murder or maim countless other children, but the amoral and criminally self-regarding so-called ‘progressive’ intelligentsia, who have bullied, smeared, intimidated and manipulated Britain into a truly dark age of barbarism."
at November 16, 2008 11:09 AM
This 17 year old girl has enough courage to speak out and stand up tho the Taliban. What the hell is wrong with the rest of Afghanistan?
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at November 16, 2008 8:12 AM
Or, for that matter, with the rest of the Islamic world? Or, for that matter, the ruling class in this country?
Silence = Death
Posted by: tanstaafl at November 16, 2008 7:52 PM
"I will go to my school if they kill me," she told reporters. "My message for the enemies is that if they do this 100 times, I am still going to continue my studies."
Meanwhile in Europe, people soil their pants if they even suspect that Muslims might be offended by something.
Posted by: Jesus Christ Supercop at November 17, 2008 4:21 AM
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