Attacks imperil girls' education in Swat Valley - 20 Oct 08

The Pakistani government says that more than 120 girls' schools have been burned down or attacked in the Swat Valley region.

It is estimated that at least 50,000 students have been affected in a region where only 27 per cent of women can read of write.

Al Jazeera's Imran Khan reports.

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[brownocasio]

I am sure Allah is proud that the Taliban attacks young girls and their will to become educated. :-(

[tckmanin]

No religion is enlightening. re ligion means reunion. Reunion of man with Haven. That is the message of devine religions.

[skippy10776]

i like couloring in !

[tckmanin]

Who discovered Acids ? muslims Chemistry started from Islam. You can see Islamic Archtecture every where. I can tell you about Islamic Medicine & surgery. We have the oldest Uni also. I think you are poisoned by Islamophobia. Before Islam ppl like greeks they believed in four elements, Air, water, dust & fire.

[newfful]

After reading through most of these comments, no wonder the world's so fucked up.

Religion kills...

[TruthbHeard]

Thats hypocritical, I can tell u the same thing that the west should not use older sciences developed by other ppl,

And there is no place in the world where ISLAM is imposed, since Sharah was destroyed by british crusaders 1924, and america bombs the hell out of all those who call for shariah.

Backward is the west that took 2000 years plus to figure out that non whites r human beings where as Islam did it in 23 years, the west is a cave man in a tank, the tank doesnt make him advanced

[hispano1618]

I'm not cristian nor jew. The issue here is Islamic education VS EDUCATION. Astronomy, Navigation, Algebra are NOT Islamic but EGIPTIAN, GREEK and BABILONIAN sciences, far older that Islam, even though muslims carried with them knowledge from pre-Islamic civilizations. In fact, wherever Islam is IMPOSED, bakwardness and bigotry replaces KNOWLEDGE. Because there's no room for anything in their minds but their imaginary friend. And better don't open the issue of slavery in the Islamic world...

[TruthbHeard]

Well i can turn that around and say dont use soap, toilets, or go 2 universities, dont learn algebra, navigation, astronomy, and all other basic educational tools that helped the western world obtain its great technolodgy

If u read bout spanish inquistion, christians killed all the jews and muslims of spain after absorbing Muslims Technolodgy while they were in the DARK AGES.

Its racist 2 say we made planes and cars OFF TEH BACKS OF SLAVERY AND INDIAN GENOCIDE, so dont use it. USA=master theft