Bikers spray eight Afghan school girls with acid (1)
Posted on 12 November 2008 by Jack
Two men on a motorcycle hurled acid at a group of eight Afghanistan school girls Wednesday in a shocking attack that is making headlines around the world.
The girls were walking to school in broad daylight when the attacked occurred.
“The men on a motorbike were apparently unarmed but nobody stopped them,” The Globe and Mail’s Graeme Smith reported Wednesday from Kandahar Air Field.
Three of the girls have been hospitalized with serious burns and three others have been treated and released.
Two girls who were wearing full-length burkas were not harmed.
Video of two of the badly burned girls shows them both in a state of shock, with one barely able to open her eyes.
“This beautiful brown eyed girl will never see again,” Smith told CTV Newsnet.
During the Taliban’s rule, between 1996 to 2001, girls were banned from schools. They were also not allowed to leave their home without a male family escort.
Note: I was going to leave and then I saw this. Call me very upset.
7:14 pm and gone again.
Goodnight.
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November 12th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Utterly disgusting. This is exactly the type of activity that is turning Muslim opinion against the Taliban and other fundamentalists (perhaps the only silver lining)
RAWA has reported on this type of activity many times in the past. This type of extremism should arouse world anger but unfortunately gets lost in political jabs.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I too am very upset. There are hardly no words to say how horrible it is.
Girls treated worse than animals.
Why do some of these Muslim extremists hate and fear females so much — particularly literate ones? Is it because they fear their own sexuality?
An eye for an eye. These perpetrators should have the same thing done to them — throw acid where it hurts.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
The biggest threat to the continued survival of Islam is education. Although the strict requirement of ignorance applies to both men and women, men are needed to maintain the mot basics of life and to fight the infidels so a very rudimentary ‘education’ is permitted. The result, one hardly needs a rolodex to keep tabs on the number of Islamic scholars, scientists, inventors etc. Burn the schools, kill the teachers and terrify young girls to force them to stay home where they belonged and Islam will struggle on. The prophet also believed that eventually all women ended up where they deserved to be.
The Prophet replied,” -… I also saw the Hell-fire and I had never seen such a horrible sight. I saw that most of the inhabitants were women.” —
November 12th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Taliban Jack and his merry band of commies is silent, yet AGAIN !!
November 12th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Colour me sick to my stomach.
November 13th, 2008 at 1:56 am
I’m sure Mohammed is PROUD of his SOLDIERS today. The fear that one must overcome to attack these, these,…
CRB
November 13th, 2008 at 3:01 am
The key sentence, IMO, was the response of the aunt - “I will keep my girls home”. This will never stop if that is the first reaction.
One of the first ever recorded actions of women for their right to respect and life happened in Greece during the Peloponnesian Wars (Athens against Sparta). The Spartan and the Athenian women wanted the war to end, so the legend goes, because they were tired of doing all the work and raising the children alone while the men were freely wandering all over playing war games. The women had a secret meeting and agreed to deny sexual relations with their men until the men agreed to end the war. The war was ended, quite quickly. Perhaps Afghan women could take a page out of ancient history and act on it - and perhaps the foreign troops could give them (women from both sides of the conflict) a safe place to hole up until the men come to grips with themselves and start behaving.
November 13th, 2008 at 10:52 am
This is the little girl our soldiers are fighting for; this is the little girl who wants to be educated that our troops are giving their lives to.
This is the little girl layton and most MSM want to turn their backs on.
Now we can see why our soldiers keep returning to Afghanistan even though their tour of duty is completed- For this very little girl and others like her who want to exprience the freedom the soldiers own children have in abudance. FREEDOM.