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> Doug wrote:
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>> > source: http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=12878684
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>> > A teacher was shot to death in northern Afghanistan after he gave a
>> > speech condemning suicide bombings, officials said Wednesday.
>> >
>> > Abdul Hadi criticized such attacks as un-Islamic and un-Afghan during
>> > a speech Tuesday in the Archi district of Kunduz province, said Khair
>> > Mohammad Subat, the provincial education department director.
>> >
>> > Hadi spoke at a gathering of about 700 people, including the Kunduz
>> > governor, and was on his way home when he was killed, Subat said.
>> >
>> > Kunduz police chief Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi said police were
>> > investigating. No arrests have been made.
>> >
>> > In January, Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the number
of
>> > students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks spiked in the past
>> > year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join
the
>> > Islamic militia.
>> >
>> > According to UNICEF, there were 236 school-related attacks last year.
>> >
>> > In central Logar province, meanwhile, education department director
>> > Kamaluddin Zadran said three girls schools have been set ablaze in
the
>> > past three weeks.
>> >
>> > Girls were barred from schools under the Taliban regime. After the
>> > Taliban fell in 2001, girls were allowed to return to attend, but
many
>> > conservative and uneducated Afghans still forbid their girls from
>> > going.
>> >
>> > Arsonists regularly attack girls schools. Last year, gunmen killed
two
>> > students walking outside a girls school in Logar.
>> >
>> > Education Ministry statistics indicate only 35 percent of students
>> > enrolled are girls.
>>
>> Freedom and liberty are the cornerstones of every Islamofacist
>> state.
>
> Yes, I'm sure it was all an unfortunate coincidence. Nothing more.
LOL, SJH should be a comedian.
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