niyad (20,087 posts) Wed Oct 10, 2012, 08:09 PM
the taliban's cowardly act
(this was the most recent thing I could find on malala's condition--does anybody have something more current?)
The Taliban’s cowardly act
ON TUESDAY, Pakistani Taliban thugs tried to assassinate a 14-year-old girl. You read that correctly: Masked gunmen from the ultra-purist Islamist group stormed a van full of schoolchildren in an effort to kill Malala Yousafzai, who has won international acclaim for going to school in defiance of Taliban edicts against educating girls in her home region of Swat.
With chilling pride, a Taliban spokesman announced that the attack was revenge for Malala’s having generated “negative propaganda†about Islam; he called her an “obscenity.†That strikes us as an apt description of the attack itself; if anything is causing a negative view of Islam around the world, it is the Taliban’s attempts to impose a medieval social order on Pakistan and Afghanistan.
At last check, Malala, though critically wounded, was expected to survive. The larger question, of course, is whether the progress she both embodied and sought to extend will prove lasting. The Taliban struck this brave youngster at least in part because it knows that she may represent the wave of the future. She enjoyed significant popularity in Pakistan, as shown by the condemnation that rained down on the Taliban from the highest levels of the government and from the country’s media.
For all its woes, Pakistan has shown measurable progress in educating girls. Pakistani females ages 15 to 24 were half as likely as males to be literate in 1990; in 2009, that ratio had improved to three-quarters, according to the United Nations. Alas, the greatest obstacles to girls’ schooling exist in rural areas where the Taliban and other extreme groups maintain a presence.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021510148 sabrina 1 (29,827 posts)
5. Every one who commits murder or torture or any other crime should be arrested, charged
tried and convicted. Doing otherwise, 'hunted down and eliminated' is doing exactly the same thing we are condemning them for doing.
Obama personally chooses the victims from "kill lists". Sounds pretty psychopathic to me.
bluestate10 (5,935 posts)
7. Oh well. The plus is that a bastard will be sent to meet his master, Satan. nt
Obama? Well, some people believe that Islam is Shaitan's religion.
