Taliban against Girl child education

[Aymelek]

This is really inhumane and unislamic. Yet these bearded gunmen claim themselves to be protector of Islam.


http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan ... -1.1087205

[pheonix]

Its time now to kill these bastards(talibans/wahabis) who did this.
If that doesn't then Pakistan is lost.

[anajmi]

I agree. The people who shot at this brave girl are cowards and have nothing to do with Islam. These people should be buried alive after cutting off their alternate limbs.

[Bohra spring]

What a shame, Taliban are a disgrace to be associated with Islam

What is it with Muslims ? How can we get rid of this extremism which is eating us as a cancer.

Wherever one looks religious leaders have some barbaric agenda.

[ghulam muhammed]

Pakistan erupts over Taliban's bid to kill teen girl activist

KARACHI: Doctors on Wednesday removed a bullet from a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, as Pakistanis from across the political and religious spectrum united in revulsion at the attack on the 14-year-old education rights campaigner.

The government kept a Boeing jet from the national carrier, Pakistan International Airlines, on standby at the Peshawar airport to fly Yousafzai to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for emergency treatment if necessary, although senior officials said she was too weak to fly.

Hussain announced a government reward of more than $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of her attackers. "Whoever has done it is not a human and does not have a human soul," he said.

Across the rest of the country, Pakistanis reacted with outrage to the attack on the girl, whose eloquent and determined advocacy of girls' education had made her powerful symbol of resistance to Taliban ideology.

"Malala is our pride. She became an icon for the country," interior minister Rehman Malik said.

The army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, visited the Peshawar hospital where Yousafzai was being treated; in a rare public statement he condemned the "twisted ideology" of the "cowards" who had attacked her. Her parents and another teacher from her school remained by her side.

The cricket-star-turned-opposition-politician Imran Khan offered to pay for her treatment, while his party accused that the governemrnt was soft on the Taliban.

Even Jamaat-ud Dawa, the charity wing of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which follows a different strain of Islam from the Taliban, condemned the attack. "Shameful, despicable, barbaric attempt," read a message on the group's official Twitter feed. "Curse b (sic) upon assassins and perpetrators."

©2011 The New York Times News Service

[ghulam muhammed]

Fifty Muslim scholars issue fatwa against Taliban

LAHORE: At least 50 Islamic scholars belonging to ‘Sunni Ittehad Council’ on Thursday declared Taliban’s attack on Pakistani children’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai as un-Islamic, DawnNews reported.

Sunni Ittehad Council represents ‘Barelvi‘ sect of Islam which is influenced by Sufism and defends the traditional Sufi practices from the criticisms of Islamic movements like the ‘Deobandi’, ‘Wahhabi’ and ‘Ahl al-Hadith’.

The scholars issued a combined ‘fatwa’ (Islamic ruling) in Lahore which said that the Taliban’s interpretation of Islam was incorrect and was deviant from the actual interpretation of the Shariah.

The fatwa added that Taliban were misguided and their mindset was driven by ignorance.

“Islam does not stop women from acquiring education and by attacking Malala the Taliban have crossed the limits of Islam,” the fatwa added.

“Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had regarded the sanctity of Muslim’s life and property more important than the sanctity of the ‘Kaaba’ (sacred Muslim place),” adding that the fatwa stated, “Murder of one innocent human being is equivalent to murder of entire humanity.”

The Islamic ruling added that United States was the enemy of Islam and Pakistan; any kind of cooperation with the US was not in compliance with the Shariah.

In response to Taliban’s interpretation of killing females for the greater good of the religion, the scholars said that Islam discourages killing of the females. Adding that, they said, “Even apostate women are not allowed to be killed in Islam.”

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[Bohra spring]

Malala may Allah help her recover well she inspires all types Of reformists


Where are our own Malala to fight FGM and child molestation in Hyderabad ?

[ghulam muhammed]

New Trend Magazine.

New Trend 's Analysis and Photos of Pakistani girl Malala changed the situation.

Now The Zionists themselves Admit their bond with Malala: She was their star On October 16, WHYY, a station of National Public Radio [NPR] broadcast an HOUR long program on Malala, the Pakistani girl who was allegedly shot by the Pak Taliban. WHYY interviewed Adam Ellick, a hard core Zionist journalist of the New York Times who worked with Malala, her father and her mother, for three years from 2009 to 2012. Ellick produced a propaganda video about her titled Class Dismissed which claimed that the Pak Taliban were against education for women. As our readers know, NPR is the biggest lineup of Zionist Jews in the media, outdoing CNN. And Nerw York Times is the flagship publication of Zionist America.

As the photos we published showed, Malala became the darling of the US military and met Obama's special Zionist representative Holbrooke. During the meeting, the girl lectured Holbrooke, telling him that he had not done enough to destroy the Taliban.

The NPR program did not explain why there was fighting in the beautiful region known as Swat. Here is the sequence of events.
1. The people of Swat supported Islamic Law [Shari'a] en masse and turned out in huge numbers to support Pak Taliban leaders including the mujahid leader Maulvi Fazlullah. It was a people's uprising. Fazlullsh himself was a "mere" worker.
2. The Pak Taliban got powerful support when masses of people reacted to the Pakistani military's attack on the Red Mosque and the Women's Seminary Jamia Hafsa. HUNDREDS of young women, many of them about the age of Malala, were slaughtered by the Paki military led in person by General Musharraf,, America's boy.
3. The support for the mujahideen spilled over to Buner, only 70 miles from Islamabad. At this instant, the American regime raised a hue and cry and ordered the Paki military to crush the forces of the heroic Maulvi Fazlullah.
4. The Paki military then carried out an operation which can only be described as genocide. The entire population of 4,000,000 of the people of Swat was evicted from Swat and placed in camps outside the region. {Shades of Stalin!]
5. Thus Swat became a free fire area for the Paki army. The finest units of the Paki army were air dropped behind Maulvi Fazlullah's defense line. The army blocked all sales of food and killed thousands of civilians supporting the Pak Taliban. In the bitter fighting which followed at least 1000 Pak Taliban and 3000 Paki elite troops were killed. Maulvi Fazlullah led the heroic defense and was seriously injured but escaped into the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan with some of his best fighters.
6. For years, the army would not allow any journalists into the area to conceal the devastation caused by Paki air strikes and tank/artillery attacks. Only one million people have returned to Swat after being verified as thoroughly "tamed" and "terrified" by the Paki army. Most medressas and mosques run by the Taliban were destroyed,. The regime tried to replace them with western style schools with the help of western NGO's and collaborators like Malala's family.
7. Fazlullah wanted women to have Islamic education and he reached them by short wave radio which they could receive on their cell phones. The Paki army repeatedly bombed the suspected sites of the radio source. Fazlullah repeatedly kept coming back on the air. Some Pak military men sympathetic to Islam outed information of mass graves. The army killed hundreds of prisoners in extra judicial killings. One video released to the BBC showed elders of a village being beaten up by Paki troops to break them and force them to reveal the hiding places of their sons. Malala's family was part of this horrific devastation of the Pakistani people. The uprisings continued in Dir, Bajaur, Adam Khel, Orakzai, South Waziristan, Tunk.... The war is still on. Only North Waziristan made a cease fire with the Paki army and is now facing a threat to its existence.

The above article was copied from the net.

[ghulam muhammed]

Dear Taliban leader, thank you for your letter to Malala Yousafzai

You were big enough to admit that your comrades tried to kill a young girl, but I would advise against picking a fight with women

Dear Adnan Rasheed,

I am writing to you in my personal capacity. This may not be the opinion of the people of Pakistan or the policy of the government, but I write to thank you in response to the generous letter you have written to Malala Yousafzai. Thanks for owning up that your comrades tried to kill her by shooting her in the head. Many of your well-wishers in Pakistan had been claiming the Taliban wouldn't attack a minor girl. They were of the opinion that Malala had shot herself in order to become a celebrity and get a UK visa. Women, as we know, will go to any lengths to get what they want. So thanks for saying that a 14-year-old girl was the Taliban's foe. And if she rolls out the old cliche that the pen is mightier than sword, she must face the sword and find it for herself.

Like you, there are others who are still not sure whether it was "Islamically correct or wrong", or whether she deserved to be "killed or not", but then you go on to suggest that we leave it to Allah.

There are a lot of people in Pakistan, some of them not even Muslims, who, when faced with difficult choices or everyday hardships, say let's leave it to Allah. Sometimes it's the only solace for the helpless. But most people don't say leave it to Allah after shooting a kid in the face. The whole point of leaving it to Allah is that He is a better judge than any human being, and there are matters that are beyond our comprehension – maybe even beyond your favourite writer Bertrand Russell's comprehension.

Allow me to make another small theological point – again about girls. Before the advent of Islam, before the prophet gave us the holy book that you want Malala to learn again, in the times we call jahilia, people used to bury their newborn daughters. They probably found them annoying and thought it better to get rid of them before they learned to speak. We are told Islam came to put an end to such horrendous practices. If 1,400 years later, we have to shoot girls in the head in an attempt to shut them up, someone like Russell might say we haven't made much progress.

Like you, I did a bit of research in Malala's hometown in Swat valley, and I remember a wise journalist warning your commanders that the Taliban might get away with slitting people's throats in public squares but not to try shutting down the girls' school. The government practically handed over the valley to your comrades, but their rule didn't even last for a few weeks because they ordered all women to stay home.

There was only one lesson to be learned: you can fight the Pakistani army; you can try and almost kill Pakistan's commander-in-chief, as you so heroically did; you might wage a glorious jihad against brutal imperial forces. But you can't pick a fight with the working women in your neighbourhood and hope to win. Those women may never get an audience at the UN but everyone – from cotton picker to bank teller – cannot be asked to shut up and stay home, for the simple reason that they won't.

It has also been suggested that your letter represents the mainstream opinion in Pakistan. But don't fall for this praise. You might think that a lot of people support your just fight, but there is a part of them that worries whether their girl will get the grades to get into a good university. And if you tell them there is a contradiction there, they might tell you to leave it to Allah.

I'm not sure if such frank language is appreciated in the Taliban's shura, but I'm sure, with your linguistic skills, you can phrase it better. I have a feeling that, like it or not, our women will kick arse.

Yes, we have heard all your arguments about how they are a weaker sex, they can't be in the workplace because they are impure five days a month, and if they are good wives they are pregnant nine months a year; but whenever I look around I have this sinking feeling that they are going to kick arse. Mine and yours.

Don't believe me? You may have seen the propaganda pictures of female pilots released by your former employer, Pakistan's air force. Some of them have started to fly fighter aircraft. Like you, I'm of the firm belief no good has ever come out of the Pakistani army's misadventures. But just think of the day when one of those female pilots decides to not leave it to Allah.

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[ghulam muhammed]

Pakistani Taliban 'delighted' over Malala missing Nobel Peace Prize

The Pakistani Taliban has said that they were delighted that Malala Yousafzai, the education activist whom they had tried to kill last year, missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid said Malala didn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize as she did 'nothing big', News24 reports.

He further added that the award should be given to the real Muslims, who are struggling for Islam, because Malala is against Islam and she is secular, so she didn't deserve it.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/pakistani-tali ... 40639.html

[ghulam muhammed]

An official White House photo shows President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughter Malia meet with Malala, in the Oval Office on October 11, 2013.


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[ghulam muhammed]

Afghan Women *MUST WATCH*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WTD7ru ... e=youtu.be

[ghulam muhammed]

Afghan Taliban, female lawmakers held informal talks in Oslo

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban representatives have held unprecedented meetings with a large delegation of Afghan women in Norway's capital this week, an apparently incremental step in efforts to end a bitter 14-year war that has killed thousands, officials said Friday.

Though striking, it remains unclear whether such meetings can bridge the chasm between rhetoric and reality as insurgents continue to threaten and kill women seeking education and employment as a constitutional right in Afghanistan.

At least nine prominent Afghan women, including five lawmakers and high-profile rights advocates, travelled to Oslo for the talks with Taliban men - members of a failed regime notorious for its brutalization of women.

The talks are not likely to have been a meeting of the minds - at least two of the women participants have survived assassination attacks by militants and most of the women at the Oslo meetings are likely to have experienced threats and harassment by men.

While the meetings were informal, they signal a potential for the Taliban to shift on hard-line positions to facilitate an eventual dialogue with the Afghan government. They also highlight fears among Afghan women about just what the Kabul administration might be prepared to sacrifice to end the war, once a formal dialogue begins.

The talks were part of the Norwegian government efforts to broker peace in Afghanistan. Both Taliban members and Afghan officials confirmed the talks but offered little details, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the nature of the meetings.

"This meeting with the opposition is not a formal peace dialogue," the Taliban said in a statement distributed to media.

Afghan officials told The Associated Press that the talks took place on June 3 and 4 as part of a long-term Norwegian initiative for Afghan peace. Norway's Foreign Ministry spokesman Frode Andersen said the meetings would conclude on Friday.

At least five female lawmakers, including prominent women's rights advocates Fawzia Koofi and Shukria Barakzai, took part, attending as "independent representatives" from parliament, one of the Afghan officials said.

"They are not part of any (Afghan) government initiative, and were invited to an unofficial meeting, not as official delegates," he said.

At least three of the women are members of the government's High Peace Council negotiating body, and one is a women's education activist, the other Afghan officials said.

The Taliban position on women's rights is mired in an extreme interpretation of Islam.

Their recent statements have been perceived as a softening of opposition to women learning and working, though Heather Barr, a senior researcher on women's rights at Human Rights Watch, said actions continue to speak louder than words and that there is a "massive disconnect between what the Taliban" say and what they do.

"They come out with great rhetoric which some people are willing to accept because they want to see a `changed' Taliban in terms of a victory after so many years of war," she said. But she also noted the Taliban use of vague language, terms such as "principles of Islam" when referring to women's rights.

The Islamic militant group, during its 1996-2001 rule in Afghanistan, banned women and girls from education and work, and ruled they could not go outside unless wearing an enveloping burka and accompanied by a male relative.

In modern-day Afghanistan, prominent women are regularly targeted by the insurgents, and some have been killed in attacks or shot dead in the street. Women health workers, policewomen, female soldiers, women who run their own businesses - they all have stories to tell, stories of family members kidnapped, homes bombed, suicide bombings or fatal street shootings.

Barakzai, who survived a November attempt on her life, said it was her outspokenness on women's issues that riled her attackers. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Her fellow lawmaker, Koofi, has said in the past that she has fled her home to escape threats against her and her family.

President Ashraf Ghani and his often outspoken wife Rula have said there will be no roll-back of hard-won constitutional protections for Afghan women as part of any peace deal.

Nevertheless, rights to equality and protection from violence are widely regarded as vulnerable to demands from Taliban and other extremist groups. Those concerns spiked in 2013 when some conservative lawmakers seized upon an attempt by Koofi to have parliament ratify the Elimination of Violence Against Women act, decreed by former President Hamid Karzai. Efforts to remove some protections ultimately failed, but women's groups were shaken.

In their statement on Friday, the Taliban said that the "Afghan government should include the Taliban when making policy. Both sides should be ready for an Islamic system and anyone who does not want this has no role" in Afghanistan.

The Oslo meeting is the most recent in a series hosted by the Norwegian government and comes a month after another round of informal talks in the Gulf state of Qatar. The meetings are seen as ice-breakers, attempts to build trust between the warring sides, and a step on a long road toward ending to the war. Formal peace talks are seen by diplomats and other observers as being years away.

Barr said Taliban participation displays the group's need to be seen as "a legitimate political force rather than a group of terrorists."

Unlike the Islamic State group fighting in Iraq and Syria and which has made no overtures to governments as it cuts an uncompromisingly extremist stance across the Middle East, the Taliban are "playing hard to get, but not impossible to get, even though every sign is that they are winning on the battlefield," she said

Ghani's office said all Afghan citizens have the right to "work for peace where and whenever they want."

"We appreciate these are non-government talks, they are not representing the government of Afghanistan," the office said in a statement.

Ghani has prioritized bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table and ending their insurgency, which has battled Kabul for 14 years, since being ousted from power by a U.S.-led invasion in December 2001.

In the meantime, each side is fighting for supremacy on the battlefield, as the Taliban's summer offensive has spread across the country and Afghan forces are taking huge casualties - fighting for the first time alone following the departure last year of most international combat troops.

The Taliban representatives to the talks were Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, a former senior official of the Taliban regime, and Mohammad Zahid Ahmadzada, who was a junior diplomat in that regime, one of the Afghan officials said.

He said that along with Barakzai and Koofi, other women lawmakers at the Oslo talks included Nilofar Ibrahimi, Farkhunda Naderi and Suraya Dalil. The women members of the High Peace Council who travelled to Norway were Siddiqa Balkhi, Gulalai Noor Safi and Awa Alam Nuristani. The head of the Afghan Women's Education Council, Hasina Safi, also participated, he said. None of the women could be immediately reached for comment.

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[ghulam muhammed]

Price of fame: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala joins millionaires' club

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education activist who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, and her family have become millionaires in under four years due to sales of a book about her life and appearances on the global speaker circuit.

Yousafzai, 18, the youngest person to win the Nobel peace prize, shot to international fame after emerging defiant from the assassination attempt on a school bus in Pakistan's Swat valley in October 2012 to continue her fight for girls' rights.

Yousafzai, who received medical treatment in Britain where she now lives, is in constant demand globally, charging $152,000 per speech compared with Desmond Tutu's reported $85,000, according to U.S.-based Institute for Policy Studies.

Her memoir, "I Am Malala", published in 2013, has sold 287,170 copies in Britain with a total value of about 2.2 million pounds ($3 million) and over 1.8 million copies worldwide, according to a spokesman from Nielsen Book Research.

While Yousafzai has set up the Malala Fund to support girls' education projects in developing countries, her family also established a company, Salarzai Ltd, in 2013 to protect the rights to her life story.

Publically available information shows that the London-based company, owned by Yousafzai, her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, and her mother, Toor Pekai, has a net worth of 1.87 million pounds in August 2015, up nearly 65 percent from the previous year.

"Since the publication of Malala's book, Malala and her family have donated more than $1 million to charities, mostly for education-focused projects across the world including Pakistan," Yousafzai's family said in a statement emailed to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Earlier this year Malala urged world leaders at a conference in London to commit $1.4 billion to give Syrian refugee children access to education.

Malala told a crowd in London's Trafalgar Square last week at a memorial for murdered British lawmaker Jo Cox that the opposition Labour MP "showed us all that you can be small and still be a giant".

Cox, a strong supporter of refugee causes and staying in the European Union (EU), was shot and stabbed to death in her constituency in northern England a week before Britain voted to leave the EU.

($1 = 0.7398 pounds)

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[ghulam muhammed]

Mosques in Afghanistan bringing women out of their homes

It’s half an hour before the Friday prayers in Kabul. Women section of Abdul Rahman mosque which is one of the biggest mosques of Kabul is bustling with women, some clad in traditional blue Burqa, most with big black scarves and lose black gown while still few with long tops over jeans.

Mosques in Afghanistan conjure the image of citadel of conservatism and even extremism for the outside world. In fact, it has historically been out of bound of women although religious texts do not forbid them.

Away from media glare, however, mosques in Afghanistan are giving women an excuse to come out of their homes, particularly to those who rarely have it otherwise. Mosques are turning into a place to socialize and become more aware not just about religious matters but also social and political issues. Increasingly people are realizing the importance of such outings as it gives them a sense of confidence perhaps they never had before.

Till only 15 years ago, under Taliban women were not even allowed to participate in any social activity in public in Afghanistan. Even in the capital Kabul, women could not venture out of their homes without some male companion. They were forced to live within the four walls of their homes in the name of religion.

Kabul streets today wear a different look as gradually women are re-occupying their spaces in almost all walks of lives. Some young girls and women are slowly but steadily changing the trend by going to coffee houses and restaurant to socialize. But these are mostly educated women from middle or upper class families.

Women from even most conservative families are meanwhile visiting mosques. Before each prayer every day, but mostly on Friday’s or in month of Ramadan young and old women can be seen on some of the Kabul streets, hurrying towards mosques. The turn out on Friday afternoon is bigger as it is public holiday, like most Muslim countries.

During last month’s Ramadan, women could be seen coming back to their homes as late as 10:00pm after performing their night prayers (Taraweeh).

“In Kabul alone there are 30 mosques that have allocated space for women.” The Ministry, however, does not have province wise exhaustive data. But there are many mosques in Kunduz, Mazar, Herat and Badakhshan provinces that have women sections

All the 30 mosques in Kabul are mosques open for both men and women and they are only segregated into different parts of the mosque. As sanctioned by mainstream Islam thus women offer prayers in single but segregated congregations, led by male Imam.

Realizing its social impact, now even government and NGOs use mosques to make people aware about social and health issues.

Esaq Haidari Arab, the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs spokesman, says, “Mosques also preach about benefits of Polio vaccination and other important issues and rights of human beings from Islamic perspective,” adding, those women visiting mosques can benefit from these.

Najiba Rahimi, a social organizer, working with an NGO in Mazar Sharif, adds “For our public awareness meetings and also to involve women in the community decision making here in Mazar we organize meetings and gathering in the female section of the mosque; and even use it as a training place for women where we invite trainers to train women about issues such as gender equality.”

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