Taliban executes teacher in front of his pupils for educating girls

[Thom Little]

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.

.......

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.


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[rodeodance]

1. terrible.

[saigon68]

11. tHE MAYOR OF KABUL (KHARZAI) Apparently not in charge here

[prog dude]

43. Sound Like Good News Overall

***the Afghan government claims six million Afghan children have returned to school, many of them girls.***

[rfranklin]

2. I'm glad Bush won the war in Afghanistan...

I remember Pickles campaigning for the war, telling us how we were liberating the women of Afghanistan.

Then again, Republicans have always wanted to put women back into the kitchen full-time.

[the observationist]

3. It sounds like pre-civil rights America over there.

[Peace Patriot]

4. They sound just like the Reaganite hit squads in Nicaragua!

Only the criterion was whether or not you supported self-determination and independence, and a fair shake for the poor. We killed teachers, mayors, medical personnel. Sold missiles to Iran, and with the money funded cold-blooded murder.

Or the CACI/Bushite hit squads in Iraq, for that matter. Gangsters. Enforcers. Men with guns.

Reaganites.
Bushites.
Taliban.

Hm-m-m.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. A little smudge on our white hat is allowable as long as our

intentions are good. Ya think????

[Arianrhod]

21. CACI hit squads?

I hadn't heard about those. I only know of Blackwater and Halliburton.

[BikeWriter]

5. "Freedom's on the march!"

[Bark Bark Bark]

6. A Horrific Story

...but no better demonstration of the incompetence of the PNAC Administration exists. We went to war, declared victory, and scuttled off (for the most part)--yet outside of the capital, the Taliban still rules and nothing has changed. It's like we were never there, except for all the dead...and those soldiers still there, for whatever purpose.

If your local rag doesn't run this story, ask them why the hell not. Too many people think Afghanistan is doing just hunky-damn-dory now thanks to Unca George.

[kurth]

8. Yep. Afghanistan is one helluva "success story"

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. My exact thoughts.

That along with the highest production of heroin and opium in the world. Boy, they are moving right along.

[WinkyDink]

9. Good thing we've succeeded there.

Time for a visit by Laura!

[KansDem]

18. Or Karen Hughes

"Now, now, Taliban, we mustn't do that. The Great White Father is not pleased..."

[bahrbearian]

23. That is Funny ... N/T

[TygrBright]

36. Oh, yes... PLEASE send them Karen... PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE...

Wouldn'tcha just LAAAAAAAAAAAAHVE to be a fly on the wall during THAT meeting?

eagerly,
Bright

[prog dude]

42. Better With the Taliban In Charge?

C'mon that can't be the Dem position.

This should show that supporting action in Afghanistan was right (which is a separate issue from Iraq).

[Ilsa]

10. Oh, that's right. Bush didn't say "Mission Accomplished" there.

I guess it's okay with Bush that half the population be kept totally ignorant there.

[classof56]

14. I'm pretty sure he'd like to keep half the US population ignorant, as well

If his "No Child Left Behind" fiasco is any indication.

Tired Old Cynic

[enough]

12. kick

[enigma000]

13. The south is still lawless territory

NATO provincial reconstructions teams are setting up in southern Afghanistan. A Canadian garrison is expected to deploy in Kandahar early in the new year. It's a dangerous place to be.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

15. Fucking hell.

The complete and utter disregard for the future of Afghanistan is heartbreaking.

FYI RAWA is as strong and incredible as ever - http://www.rawa.org / (the top link - "The ?Miracle? or a Mockery of Afghanistan?" about Republican candidate Diane Tebelius' October article is well worth a read:

"A few days ago Ms. Tebelius returned to the United States from Kabul, I am writing these notes as a response to her dreadful article from inside my trampled country. As a member of RAWA, I had to be in several provinces to meet as many people as possible regarding the elections. Tebelius can enjoy the luxury of sitting in her house and so easily call the disgusting mockery of an election ?the miracle of Afghanistan?, while I am crying from among the people in the hell of the Taliban and Northern Alliance (NA) terrorists and their ?westernized? accomplices. Tebelius and other election observers with their bullet-proofs and body guards were in the hands of the American soldiers and Afghan agents. She might have been told about ?swift spreading democracy?, ?prosperity?, ?complete security? and other ?miracles? in our land of warlords and payees of foreign powers. On the other hand since she was selected by the U.S. government that brought Karzai and the Northern Alliance to the scene, it comes as no surprise she is not calling a spade a spade."

(...)

http://www.rawa.org/seattletimes.htm

[Straight Shooter]

16. Finish one major job before you start another.

It's a basic concept of life, but bush and the neocons are clueless as to any basic concept of life. And yet they keep talking about taking on Iran. Good grief.

edit: I forgot to add, may the spirit of this teacher be at peace. Wherever he is, I like to think he is watching over the children he loved so much that he gave his life for them.

[AlCzervik]

17. Afghanistan-The forgotten front.

[truth2power]

19. Well then...I guess Commander Bunnypants' assertions

that we've defeated the Taliban are incorrect.

Send Laura over there to give those guys an attitude adjustment!

[PurityOfEssence]

22. Isn't religion fun?

How can anyone get along without the stuff? It's hard to subjugate half the human race without some oddball asshole claim that the supernatural daddyman thinks women are dirt.

We've really "fixed" Afghanistan, haven't we? Gotta love our friends the Pakistanis, too.

[Naipes]

24. The Taliban are Sick FUCKS!

The Taliban needs to be stopped! Period. The end.

From using captured prisoners to destroy 2,000 year old icons to killing teachers in front of little children. These fuckers are SICK! Who the FUCK do they think they are?

[Doctor_J]

25. Yep, Smirk gave Afghanistan to the Taliban to attack Iraq

Complete, utter, total, disgusting FAILURE.

[tabasco]

35. Bu$h abandoned the mission.

Actually, the corporate cabal never made a real effort in Afghanistan.

The military operation against the real enemy was a complete joke.

We should have had at least 2 US divisions guarding the border with Pakistan, and a real US effort to flush out and destroy Bin Laden and the Taliban. What we got was a joke of an operation, with hired warlords, and the Pakistanis trusted to catch their cousins coming across the border. But the cabal was fixated on attacking Iraq even before 9-11, so our forces could not be spared to attack the real enemy.

Every American should be outraged. But 37% or more are totally oblivious to the truth because of corporate brainwashing (Faux,MSRNC, etc.)

[Yupster]

40. I don't think tens of thousands of more

American troops is the answer to Afghanistan. I think a much larger Americans presence in Afghanistan will just make matters worse.

Also, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is over 1,000 miles long and often through jagged mountains. The idea that we could put two divisions of troops on the border and seal it looks like American arrogance to me.

As is the idea that America should be able to wipe out the vestiges of the most fundamentalist rule in the world in a few years.

Even if everything goes pretty well in Afghanistan, it will be generations before the Taliban are powerless.

Is it just an American trait that we think everything should be accomplished in a year? Seems pretty silly, but I guess in the era of cellphones and sitcoms, it's what people are used to

[LeftHander]

26. Extreme Christian Fundies not far behind....

they have be waging a war on education for years. Attacking science, and creating a male/female home school education that returns females to a subservient role in society as a mother and "wife", dictating what subjects can be learned and what clothes are to be worn. They teach that the male is head of household and is to be obeyed. (this is in extreme Christian households mind you not representative of the vast majority of Christians)

The Taliban shows what happens to a society when religion is allowed to dictate policy.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. And they are as "Christian" as the Taliban are "Islamic"

True believers in both faiths need to remind extremists of this; then the rest of the world will listen.

[M155Y_A1CH]

27. Will this be Iraq ?

Just a couple rhetorical questions:
Isn't this the same Sharia law that guides the newly formed Iraqi government?
and
Didn't we help put that system in place?
Hmmm...........

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Not quite--the Shiites want to establish an Iranian-type government

which while repressive to women (compulsory hijab after age 9, restrictions on contact between the sexes, etc.) does allow girls and women to go to school and work at most jobs (sometimes under restrictions).

Some Afghan girls who belong to the ethnic group that speaks a language related to Farsi (I forget which one that is) actually went to Iran as refugees so that they could continue their education.

Basically, the Taliban are so far off the extremist map that even the Iranians think they're crazy.

[Moochy]

34. And to add to that

There is a much longer tradition of secularism in Iraq than there is in Afghanistan.

[leesa]

28. Sad. I'll bet our Christian Taliban Wannabe's are jealous...they wish

they could handle things so easily.

[shadowknows69]

29. I thought we deafeated the taliban

that's what the reporter man says on CNN everytime they talk about Afghanistan

[WhiteTara]

31. another failure on the part of monkey boy and friends

but I guess you can't expect much from a government who drops bombs and food aid in the same wrapper.Why are we There again? I can't remember.

[madrchsod]

32. when the boys were trying to get a pipe deal

with the taliban they realized just how incredibly dumb the taliban were. they gave up trying to deal with them so they invaded the country...

[leftchick]

33. and chimpy is still spewing the Taliban are gone

no one ever challenges him on that.

[jus_the_facts]

37. Niiiice...convenient stories abound lately in favor of our occupations....

....and reasons for 'em to continue...the media rulz.

[Judi Lynn]

39. All brown people are incapable of running their own affairs.

They need Republicans to meddle to the max if they are to have any hope, and _Bush administration-planted stories will keep us informed of the progress.

[MichiganVote]

38. Do the Taliban want a voucher school program too?

[JNelson6563]

41. Sounds like our work there is done

Ugh.

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[katinmn]

46. But I thought Junior sacked the Taliban!

He really and truly is an utter failure at everything. How long have we been in Afghanistan??

[madmark]

47. Its bullshit that any of these taliban idiots are still in business;

That's what you get when don't finish the job and piss away all your resources on a bullshit vanity project (Iraq).

[rainbow4321]

48. 2 more school shootings in Afghanistan..student and janitor.

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?secti...

Men on a motorcycle opened fire yesterday on students leaving school in volatile southern Afghanistan, killing a pupil and a janitor, a provincial official said.

The attack in Lashkargah, capital of insurgency-hit Helmand province, comes two days after a schoolteacher was shot dead in the province in what President Hamid Karzai condemned as an act of terrorism. No one claimed responsibility for either attack.

Helmand deputy provincial governor Moheedin Khan said after yesterday’s shooting: “We don’t know who carried out the attack but definitely they’re the enemies of Afghanistan.” Afghan officials use the term to refer to insurgents, including those from the ultra-conservative Taleban movement toppled in a US-led invasion in late 2001.

“The enemies of Afghanistan must understand that their evil acts won’t close doors on schools in our country.” The violence has left more than 1,500 people dead this year alone.

[LiviaOlivia]

49. What pathetic lives these zealot men must lead.

Fuck religion. Fuck men.