Silent night
The Taliban in northwest Pakistan is in a festive mood.
Taliban in Swat district have imposed a ban on female education and have warned teachers of ‘severe consequences’ if any girl is seen heading for school after a 15-day deadline ends.
They’re not messing around.
“You have until January 15 to stop sending your girls to schools. If you do not pay any heed to this warning, we will kill such girls,” one official quoted the commander as saying. “We also warn schools not to enrol any female students; otherwise, their buildings will be blown up.”
They’re not shy. They clearly don’t feel any need to win hearts and minds.
Durran said local Taliban leaders were determined not to allow girls to attend school, saying: “We want to enforce the true Sharia in the area – for this, we are fighting and laying down our lives.”
They are fighting and ‘laying down their lives’ for the sake of murdering girls who go to school and destroying school buildings. They are risking their own lives and destroying those of other people for the shining inspiring goal of…preventing girls from getting an education. Humanity struggles and learns for thousands of years and arrives at the point of – packs of ignorant violent men whose main goal in life is to grind women into the dirt.
Joy to the world.
And I thought the phrase “barefoot, pregnant and chained to the kitchen stove” was one of those strawman caricatures that no one takes seriously.
How can anyone in the West can support the Taliban as resistance fighters?
Because their anti Americanism trumps all Dave,I think its that simple?
Who in the West does that, Kiwi Dave? Aside from committed Islamic militants who reside in the West, that is.
George Galloway M.P for one.
There are, alas, plenty of people in the UK who seem to think that nobody, anywhere, could possibly be as evil as a British Cabinet Minister or a Tory MP, and align their global sympathies accordingly. These people are idiots, of course, but then so is almost everyone prepared to soil their hands with public comment.
Swat Valley is such an exquisite place – deep in the heart of the mountains, in fact, it is another kind of Switzerland.
It was a place where ski tourists from all over the world in the past, holidayed without any kind of trouble.
But now that the Taliban extremists have taken over 59 villages and more and want to introduce ninth century rules on its citizens – this little piece of paradise has now become a Sharia hell- hole.
All is not calm -all is not bright. Round up young children who dare to go to school and swat them off the face of this beautiful valley.
When has George Galloway done this?