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Originally Posted by jinnzaman
Islamisation means Muslim countries taking Islam and giving it a greater role in economics, law, and politics. Its antithesis is secularism. The Taliban establishing a presence in large swathes of territory and transforming social relationships in a manner that is clearly religiously oriented as opposed secular oriented is a statement of fact, not opinion.
But if you want to keep playing semantics, be my guest.
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Insecurity and Attacks on Schools: Afghanistan and Iraq
During Ramadan [late 2005], the girls were still going to school. There was a letter posted on the community’s mosque saying that
“men who are working with NGOs and girls going to school need to be careful about their safety. If we put acid on their faces or they are murdered, then the blame will be on the parents.” … After that, we were scared and talked about it, but we decided to let them keep going anyway. But after Eid, a second letter was posted on the street near to there, and the community decided that it was not worth the risk [and stopped all girls over age ten from going to school] . . . .My daughters are afraid—they are telling us “we’ll get killed and be lying on the streets and you won’t even know.”
—mother of two girls withdrawn from fourth and fifth grades, Kandahar city
In Afghanistan, brutal attacks by armed opposition groups on Afghan teachers, students and their schools have severely affected girls’ access to school. Beginning in late 2005, armed groups, including the Taliban, sharply increased attacks against schools and teachers to instill terror in ordinary Afghans and contest the authority of the central government. From January 2005 to June 21, 2006, Human Rights Watch documented more than 200 incidents of teachers and students being killed or threatened, and schools being blown up or burned down.
These attacks have forced many schools to close, and made it nearly impossible to open new schools. Where schools do remain open, parents are often afraid to send their children—in particular girls—to school.
Under the Taliban, girls were denied the right to attend school. After the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, school enrollment increased dramatically, as large numbers of girls enrolled. However, growing insecurity has derailed, and in many cases, reversed this progress. In March 2006, President Karzai stated that some 100,000 Afghan children who had gone to school in 2003 and 2004 no longer went to school.
A provincial official in Kandahar told Human Rights Watch,
In the first three years there were a lot of girl students—everyone wanted to send their daughters to school. For example, in Argandob district [a conservative area], girls were ready, women teachers were ready. But when two or three schools were burned, then nobody wanted to send their girls to school after that.
Girls’ school attendance also has been affected by threatening “night letters,” alone or preceding actual attacks, distributed in mosques, around schools, and on routes taken by students and teachers, warning them against attending school and making credible threats of violence.
Violence against Schoolgirls (Human Rights Watch, 20-2-2007)
Re: The Taliban Retake Afghanistan
love it..keep 'em coming!
