Another suspected poisoning at Afghan girls' school
Kabul, Afghanistan - Twenty-one people at a girls' school in northern Afghanistan fell sick on Wednesday and authorities there suspect they were poisoned.
Fifteen students, five teachers and a principal of the Baghawi Awlia girls' primary school in Sar-e Pul province lost consciousness, according to Asif Nang, spokesman for the Education Ministry.
Authorities suspect the Taliban, which banned girls from going to school when it ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
Since girls' schools began reopening after the Taliban were overthrown, facilities, female students and teachers have been the victims of attacks.
Qamaruddin Shekeb, provincial deputy governor, said it's the third time such an incident occurred in the province, and Nang said it's the seventh suspected poisoning incident in the country.
itz a bumma!!!!!!
Pigs have a higher status than women in the Islamic faith. What do you expect?
If the Taliban have to resort to poisoning girls... they must be scared of girls.
The girls must pose a real threat to them, should they be educated.
THE TALIBAN ARE WIMPS! COME OUT OF YOUR CAVES!
No, they are afraid of education.
Every act of of violence such as this is believed to be from these cowardly extremists, make me tolerate and respect the other % of Islam that has to take the heat for this. Hating Islam for acts like this is like hating Christianity for the Spanish Inquisition. It is the people that harbor the willingness and power for such travesties, not the gods...
You're geometry is all mess up. I don't know if anyone else read what you wrote but it makes no sense at all. In Arabic it is common to use flowery language to illustrate a point, in English the intent is lost. What does that mean? Say what you mean and stop with the nonsensical analogies. Also, I'm sure CNN has no idea who did what but we can deduce from previous poisoning attacks by the Taliban that they are responsible. I
OMG! women are really smarter than men!!! ahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! im just playing. but seriously, Mary is right everybody listen up.
god (allah) hard at work again....
Imagine a very strong Muslim country, that because of our mis-deeds in the Middle East, invaded the US and attempted to force their customs on us.
Societal changes of custom must be changed from the inside, not by force from those whose customs are different. That approach has never worked, and never will. The US has several reasons to be in Afghanistan, but forcibly trying to change centuries of custom should not be one of them.
I couldn't agree more. Hopefully as with the recent jirga more meaningful contact will be made and a fair and balanced solution to the situation at hand can be found. "Better to jaw jaw jaw than war war war" Winston Churchill.
That's exactly what NATO is trying to achieve, peace on Afghan terms, not on Taleban or Al Queda terms. Ordinary Afghans want peace. Getting rid of their Taleban oppressors, but of course it have to be done the Afghan way, through their elected leaders, and that's exactly what general McCrystal has worked so hard on trying to achieve, before he was kicked out. Not trying to force our system upon the Afghans
The UN is a waste of oxygen. They are useless.
i dunno. the brits forcibly stopped the practice of suttee in India. not overnight, but definitely against their customs.
Well, this is Afghanistan, in another century. Maybe even the Brits are able to get wiser by time, learning by old mistakes
You do not have to imagine, they are here and it will not be long before they start to demand more and more. Look at Europe and Great Britain, they have Muslim area where nobody is allowed except other Muslims. Stick around and watch the suicide bomber coming to a shopping center you.
These guys must be reading Qur'an backwards and upside down to boot.
It really must be strong stuff you're using. Don't bring that to the US, so we'll all go as crazy as you
Isn't it proof enough, that thousands of muslims burned danish flags and their embassy in Pakistan, just because a newspaper cartoonist had made some stupid drawings ? If that's not the utmost of mass-psykosis I've ever seen, I don't know what. You fanatics belong in a lunatic asylum
What kind of trip are you on, with your so-called philosophical mind, telling you that no divine teachings carry the word religion ? Religion is just a common, not holy word, describing the spiritual beliefs of people. This is not to be found out, by an inquiring mind, but is just a matter of learning english at grade 1 level
It's not the problem of the Western world to do anything about. These areas of the world that have been in conflict for centuries. Involvement from the West does absolutely nothing to resolve conflict in the East, it increases conflict. When there is Western involvement it is imperialistic in nature. Topics like the treatment of women in these countries are used to legitimize the immoral and illegal military occupation of the West in these regions. Nobody would care about these countries if our governments didn't want their oil and resources. There are problems all over the world, larger problems like world hunger and AIDS. People don't comment with the same emotional ferocity over a need to act on those issues. Then again, the starving people in Africa aren't sitting on top of natural resources the West wants. You would also have to see the men as victims, and there's no way Western feminists would get emotional over that.
Want to bet? The west gives more in aid to Africa than all the oil rich Middle Eastern countries. Aid that has to run past the hellhole that is Sudan where pirates are looking for easy pickings and do not care in the least who suffers.
Yeah dude, we give billions in aide to countries that "don't have the resources that the U.S. wants."
Exactly !
I agree, I wish we would bring the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq, let them settle their own war. I will, however; stand with Israel against anyone who wants to do them harm. Lets keep our money here too. Drill oil wells and stop using Iran's and Saudi Arabia's oil. Then list Saudi as the terrorist country it is. While we are at it send all of the Muslims back home, they hate the United States so much and they will be much happier in a hut with a dirt floor.
If not for Ronald Reagan and Rep. Charlie Wilson, the Soviet Union in the 1980's would have crushed islamic extremism and executed every religious nut case in Afghanistan,and probably would have destabilized the corrupt extremist nation of Pakistan too.
Instead Ronald Reagan sold weapons to the mujahaddein, found 2 major islamic extremist groups from Pakistan and paid them, trained them in insurgency to fight the Soviets, and later gave them high technology such as FIM-92A stinger missiles.
Its unfortunate our psychosis about the Soviets blinded us to the real threat of islam. Even now we have islamic nations as allies, and for what? They will take our money and weapons and fight us with them.
You have a point there
Just a small point, you do not need to repeat the previous post just reply to it. Maybe just maybe if you do that you will be taken more seriously.
There are thousands of Muslims ready to take to the streets over some cartoons, but when it comes to issues like this, the silence is deafening.
Very true. God forbid the day sacred Mohammad is drawn in a cartoon. Send the cartoonist to the fires of hell!!!!!!!!! But maim women and poison their schools... they can turn a blind eye to that.
All religions have treated women in this manner, they are only the current sect to abuse what they claim to love.
Religion corrupted, the taliban are no more than ignorant thugs who are afraid that if women learn beyond having babies they will walk away from the abusive teachings of the koran. After all it was written by a pedophile who was a known murderer and thief.
If it was just the 15 girl student who lost consciousness i would have said it was a possible case of mass hysteria, add five teachers and a principal and i would guess not especially in that country and the taliban's record of woman and child abuse.
Do they realize that by harming and killing their women and children, that they are in turn killing themselves? Who will run their next generations, who will birth their children?! Absolute foolishness.
Bull
So does it still seem apparent that the Taliban are representatives of the "religion of peace"?
If I was Islamic, I'd be infuriated by this. If I was an Afghan, I'd be infuriated about this. Where is the outrage?
Ha, Muslims rise up by the thousands to demonstrate asgainst US "atrocities" Not one peep out of them when their 'brothers'poison their own babies.What a bunch of self righteous hypocrates they are.You. know,before 911 I thought of the muslim faith as just another religion, who were free to worship as they please, just regular folks. Well their crusade to garner respect from the rest of the world has just served to make me see them as something else. A threat to the rest of the world and civilized society. Where is the outcry against this stuff from the "real" muslims They are and probably complicit. They reserve their "outrage"for anti American issues. Screw em!
GOD says: If you harm the little children or stop them from coming to me it will be better for you to tie a rope around your neck & jump into the deep ocean than what GOD has in store for you in hell.
May GOD Bless & keep us all !!!!!!!!!!
This is the third publicly reported instance of women school children poisoning. If the Army sent in their investigative team, it wouldn't have occurred a third time. Standing by and letting the Islamic extremists who treat women like lower class animals poison Islamic girls that attend schools in Afghanistan, is America winning the hearts and minds of the American People? Huh? Is that the strategy by not sending in the investigative teams to stop that?
What investigative teams are you talking about? The Criminal Investigation Division deals with soldier infractions the military police don't investigate. The Army doesn't have some sort of CSI Afghanistan. Our CID is to busy making sure detainees aren't abused to worry about innocent Afghan women and children. Blame everyone who made a fuss about Abu Ghurayb
Let them live like they have been for centuries. It's their problem not the USA.
I wonder how many other countries said that about our women's rights movement?
The only thing more evil than committing acts of villainy, is turning a blind eye and doing nothing about those acts.
Jaybob,
I agree. We cannot allow the persecution of innocent civilians at the hands of monsters.
Yes, Taliban are cowards. Yes, this is a good reason for eliminating the Taliban. Its sad that the members (men) feel justified to harming girls. Its even sadder that they feel threatened by women's existence. If these so called religion protectors believe God made man and woman, then God first made man, then made Woman, as a GIFT to men. Men should respect the gift given to them by God.
The Taliban consider women not as a gift – but as a possession to be done with as they please.
These are the same people that wanted the Taliban around to help protect them from the big bad Americans. Well, you got what you wanted. Enjoy!
I agree Though I think its so sad that the children have to suffer, the asfghan people stood with the taliban "brothers" back when, when they could have helped us eradicate them. Now the taliban hass grown and have gotten a real foothold in the country. the people are geting what they bought.Their 'peaceful' religious leaders are exerting the power that they gave them now.They are reaping what they have sown now.
Taliban = cowards.
This is infuriating... women are treated like dirt there, when will it change?
No time soon Nelia, no time soon.
Another good reason for eradicating these psycho-Taliban
AMEN
Not to sound rude but, isn't Afghanistan one of the few nations in the world that is 100% (or close to 100%) Muslim?
Is this the end result? They say once Islamification is complete, the Islamists will then start to persecute their own moderates.