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> >> > source: http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=12878684
> >> >
> >> > 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.
Hey, I was being serious! ;)
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