Posted on 12/16/2005 5:55:11 PM PST by blam
Taliban execute teacher in front of his pupils for educating girls
By Tom Coghlan in Kabul
(Filed: 17/12/2005)
Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan have executed a school teacher in front of his pupils for refusing to comply with warnings to stop educating girls.
The attack took place on Thursday at a secondary school in Nadi Ali district, Helmand province, the scene of many Taliban attacks in recent months, according to the police, who learned of the incident yesterday.
About 4,000 British troops will be deployed to the province in April to combat an increasingly confident insurgency.
Pupils at the school said two armed men arrived by motorcycle. "They dragged the teacher from the classroom and shot him at the school gate," said Abdul Rahman Sabir, Helmand's police chief.
"He had received many warning letters from the Taliban to stop teaching, but he continued to do so happily and honestly - he liked to teach boys and girls." He identified the teacher by the single name of Laghmani.
Under the Taliban interpretation of Islamic Sharia law female education was banned, along with female employment. Since the overthrow of the Taliban government by the US-led invasion of 2001, the Afghan government claims six million Afghan children have returned to school, many of them girls.
However, Taliban insurgents in the south have repeatedly targeted schools, burning many to the ground at night or issuing beatings or warnings to teachers.
What a horrible tale! If this is Utopia Taliban-style, I don't know why anybody would buy into it.
Obviously, there's still some work to do in Afghanistan...
Yes, and they know that Westerners are conditioned to react emotionally instead of with logic.
In this country we imprison Colonel Kurtz, because we are ashamed of him and because we might possibly win if we didn't. (I use "we" loosely...)
About 4,000 British troops will be deployed to the province in April to combat an increasingly confident insurgency...
No offense, but I think it's time for the Americans to take control of this.
Tag line says it all...BTTT
Why are the NOW bimbos so silent about stuff like this?
Why was he there?
They've tied the hands of the military to the point where these guys can get stronger. The media has been in bed with the enemies of the US for a long time. Stop treating them as though they are actual citizens. They want to be citizens of the world? Great, we owe them nothing, that includes protection.
An example of the nuts we're dealing with.
yes plenty of work to do.
my suggestion is to placate the DUmmies about redeployment for some of our troops to a little further east of bagdad
to oh lets say kabul via tehran.
I think a Blaze orange vest that sez....Media.
I agree....call it a field trial ending in the termination of the guilty with extreme prejudice. quick and final.
That entire "Religion" needs to be exterminated and the land on which it was spawned salted and nuked until nothing else will ever grow from it.
Ever
Because now, NOW is a joke. Time was when politicians cowered in fear of those big dykes, but this ain't the '70's anymore, and they're just another small bunch of leftist moonbats who really can't influence what happens in the US, much less Afghanistan.
(Of course, a Hitlery for President candidacy might re-energize 'em. Beware!;)
Exterminators needed.
There are some who say America represented all that is evil by "invading" Afghanistan.
alla-uzza - not just a black[hearted] piece of moonrock, a false god that wants to kick your ass!
Taliban executes teacher for {gasp! shudder!} educating young women and girls - oh! humanity! oh! the temerity - oh! the blasphemy - oh! the futility...
Oh, the "/sarcasm" tag! It's another P.R.O.P.* PING-o-rama!
{P.hony R.eligion O.f P.eace - Phony Religion, Phony Peace - more than a good idea, it is the law of the black moon-rock false god!}
Taliban "insurgents" at their old handiwork - terrorising the people least insulated and protected from their murderous, P.R.O.P.-driven holy mission to eradicate art, culture, thought, and civilisation. Meanwhile, the obsequious liberal "journalists" thousands of safe miles away continue to be awed, cowed, and perversely fascinated with the orgiastic bloodletting.
P.R.O.P. - islam's not just a jihad, it's an adventure!
A.A.C.
"The Final Crusade has commenced - arm the free women of the world, and the Taliban will be sumarrily 're-educated'!"
mohammad - not just a false prophet, he's a murderous, delusional paedophile!
A strangely quiet bunch, for sure. Guess they don't to criticize their temporary allies.
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