Re: [mukto-mona] Taliban says it shot ‘infidel’ Pakistani teen for advocating girls’ rights

As long as these idiots were targeting westerners and other infidels, Pakistanis looked the other way and felt content and happy having the true mujahedins on their side. Now, being a good Muslim might not enough in certain parts of Pakistan. Would majority fight Taliban? That is a great question.
How can you fight a group of people who want to apply the pure version of Islam when plenty of so called Muslim moderates think Islam is a "complete philosophy and comprehensive life style" for our whole human race ( Ms. Mita Ali)?
-SD

 

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." GBS

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From: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Taliban says it shot 'infidel' Pakistani teen for advocating girls' rights

 

What can be said about this type of action? I have no comment, except to wait for the time when all these monstrosities will stop. I know – it will stop only when majority want to stop it. Unfortunately, they are not there yet. Many believe Talibans are the real victims. They have been driven out of their homeland. In the near sighted view, they may be right; but, in the far sighted view, they are cheering for the Frankenstein. Jiten Roy    --- On Tue, 10/9/12, Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> Subject: [mukto-mona] Taliban says it shot 'infidel' Pakistani teen for advocating girls' rights To: "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "bangladesh-progressives@googlegroups.com" <bangladesh-progressives@googlegroups.com> Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 6:04 PM   Taliban says it shot 'infidel' Pakistani teen for advocating girls' rights View Photo Gallery — Taliban shoots 14-year-old 'infidel' who spoke for girls: A 14-year-old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls denied education under the Taliban was shot and seriously wounded in Pakistan Tuesday on her way home from school, authorities said.   Text Size Print E-mail Reprints By Haq Nawaz Khan and Michele Langevine Leiby, Updated: Tuesday, October 9, 1:20 PM PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A 14-year-old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls denied education under the Taliban was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday on her way home from school, authorities said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on ninth-grader Malala Yousafzai, who officials said was shot in the head by at least one gunman who approached a school bus in Mingora, a city in the scenic Swat valley in the country's northwest. 2816 Comments Weigh In Corrections? Personal Post Shazai, another victim who was wounded when gunmen opened fire on the bus carrying Malala Yousafzai, explains the incident. (Source: The Express Tribune) More World News Interview with education activist shot by Taliban [video] Olga Khazan 9:51 AM ET 'I thought that I must be a politician to change our country,' she once said. Fine Print: Kissinger gets China right Walter Pincus 8:55 AM ET Walter Pincus says Henry Kissinger is right when it comes to China and U.S. BBC apologizes over abuse claims Karla Adam OCT 8 A growing number of women claim one of the corporation's former entertainers sexually abused them. Yousafzai was flown by helicopter to a military hospital in Peshawar, where officials said a bullet was lodged near her spine. Surgeons were unable to operate immediately because of swelling in her skull. President Asif Ali Zardari directed that Yousafzai be sent abroad for medical care, a government spokesman said. A seventh-grade girl was shot in the leg, according to local police. Taliban insurgents controlled Swat for two years until a massive military operation drove them out in May 2009, but sporadic attacks have continued in the area. Yousafzai became known in early 2009, when she wrote a diary about Talibanatrocities under a pen name for the BBC's Urdu service. In 2011, the Pakistani government awarded her a 1 million rupee ($10,500) prize and a peace award for her bravery in raising her voice for children's rights and girls' education when few others in Pakistan dared to. Yousafzai also was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011. The seventh-grader who was wounded in the leg said she and her classmates were leaving school when the attack occurred. "Two bearded armed men stopped our school van and asked for Malala and opened fire from behind the van," the girl, named Shazia, said from the hospital where she and Yousafzai were first taken. Ihsanullah Ihsan, chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said in calls to the media that the militant group targeted Yousafzai because she generated "negative propaganda" about Muslims. "She considers President Obama as her ideal. Malala is the symbol of the infidels and obscenity," Ihsan said. Political leaders condemned the attack. "We have to fight the mind-set that is involved in this. We have to condemn it," Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf told the Pakistani Senate. "Malala is like my daughter and yours, too. If that mind-set prevails, then whose daughter would be safe?" Yousafzai also is an advocate for literacy in the Swat valley. She started her diary when the Taliban banned girls' education and bombed hundreds of schools, mostly those for girls, in Swat. Her father, Zia Uddin Yousafzai, is an educator and a member of Swat's peace jirga, or tribal gathering. "She is all right," he said in an interview. "Please pray for her early recovery and health." After being forced out of Swat, Pakistani Taliban fighters relocated to the Afghan border region near the eastern Afghan provinces of Konar and Nurestan. They are blamed for attacks on Pakistani forces from across the border. "This is a highly condemnable act of terror and an attempt to silence a brave voice," Mian Iftikhar Hussain, a spokesman for the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, said. In her diary, Yousafzai wrote about her fears and growing Taliban influence. One morning, she wore her favorite pink dress. "During the morning assembly we were told not to wear colorful clothes as the Taliban would object to it," she wrote. In another entry, she wrote: "On my way from school to home I heard a man saying, 'I will kill you.' " I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else . . . ." Michele Langevine Leiby reported from Islamabad. Richard Leiby in Islamabd also contributed reporting. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taliban-says-it-shot-infidel-pakistani-teen-for-advocating-girls-rights/2012/10/09/29715632-1214-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html?hpid=z1   Will Pakistanis ever fight the demons that they have created for last sixty years in the name of Islam? I doubt. Our BNP brothers might be creating the same demons in Bangladesh without realizing the problem?  -SD "All great truths begin as blasphemies." GBS

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