December 2008
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Michael Burleigh
An item that won't get much coverage
Thursday 7th August 2008
Nasdaq reports that two Taliban "militants" blew themselves up placing explosives in a school in Pakistan's Swat valley. Elsewhere in the same location other schools (especially for girls) have also been bombed or burned down. That reality of these people will probably go unnoticed. They are people who blow up schools.
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George
August 8th, 2008
10:08 AM
10:08 AM
Good man, Burleigh. Keep telling it.
mburleigh
August 8th, 2008
5:08 PM
5:08 PM
Oh I certainly will boss.
jlinville
August 19th, 2008
3:08 PM
3:08 PM
Dear Mr. Burleigh,
Thanks for calling attention to this. I looked into it, and over on my Standpoint blog nearby elaborate on the matter, including this...
According to The Australian, resurgent extremists have actually destroyed 87 girls’ schools, with another sixty-two schools closed by frightened teachers. Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Swat Valley, called female education "a source of obscenity," and ordered girls to go home and don the burka. In the past ten days alone extremists reduced twenty-eight girls' schools to rubble.
JSL
mburleigh
August 19th, 2008
6:08 PM
6:08 PM
Ah Jlinville. Today's (or maybe yesterdays) Herlad Tribune had an item on the school destroyers.
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