The cowardly acts of mindless violence by the taliban sicken me to the core. This past weekend two incidents were reported in the news. (How many were not reported) Who Knows.
An Afghan school in the Parwan province, on Sunday,was hit by a poison attack.Five Afghan teachers and 40 of their pupils, mostly girls, have been admitted to hospital after a suspected airborne poison attack. The Public Health Ministry said five adults and three dozen girl students suffered severe headaches during a ceremony at a school in the Parwan province, 70km north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday. A witness reported that an unknown person had thrown an unknown substance into the compound.
While attacks on girls' schools are increasingly common in the east and south of Afghanistan, Parwan is considered a relatively safe area, not known for Taliban activity. Women were prohibited from going to school or work until 2001 when the Taliban were overthrown by the US and Afghan-led forces. Last year a group of schoolgirls in Kandahar had acid thrown in their faces by men who objected to them attending school. The governor of Parwan, Abdul Jabar Taqwa, said he had visited the hospital and most of the patients are in a stable condition.
The second new story that appeared this past weekend concerned 3 teenagers in Peshwar Pakistan. In one incident late Saturday, Taliban hardliners shaved the heads and moustaches of four men for listening to music, a young man from Buner told AFP by telephone, requesting not to be identified.
I was with three other friends in my car, listening to music when armed Taliban stopped us and, after smashing cassettes and the cassette player, they shaved half our heads and moustaches, he said.
The Taliban also beat us and told us not to listen to music ever again, said the terrified man. The victim said neither he nor his friends lodged a complaint with police, as this would have been useless.
It might have annoyed the Taliban further and I fear for my life, the man said. Residents in Mingora, the main town in Swat, said Taliban posters had been put up in streets and markets ordering women not to go shopping. The posters had appeared after the Taliban's controversial agreement with the government to enforce Islamic law in the region. We will take action against women who go out shopping in the markets and any shopkeeper seen dealing with women shoppers will be dealt with severely, read the poster from the Swat branch of Tehreek-e-Taliban.
The peace agreement does not mean that obscenity should be re-born, it added.
Hardline Islamists in the extremist Taliban consider it obscene for women to leave their homes, and ban females from venturing out in public without an immediate male relative -- namely a father, brother, son or husband.
For years, Swat was a popular ski resort frequented by Westerners but the Pakistani government effectively lost control of the mountainous district after the violent Taliban campaign to enforce sharia law.
The taliban culture definetly has to arrive in this century one day.When?
With actions like these terrorizing teens listening to music, and poisoning a place of Education. The taliban must be removed.
Something to think about ? Thank heaven we are in Canada.
Please support our troops who are hard at work trying to eradicate the taliban from Afghanistan.
Nil Sine Labore
Robby
