AP: Taliban to open schools in Afghanistan (I do think it was Pelosi

[rodeodance]

who said just this week that Afghan was the model (Iraq). umm....


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_as/afghan_taliban_schools

Taliban to open schools in Afghanistan

By NOOR KHAN, Associated Press Writer 39 minutes ago

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban's governing body decided to open schools in the areas controlled by the militants in
Afghanistan, the purported chief spokesman for the hardline militia told The Associated Press.

Abdul Hai Muthmahien said that Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders decided that from March, Islamic education will be provided in at least six southern provinces — first for boys and later for girls.

"The U.S. and its allies are doing propaganda against the Taliban," Muthmahien said in a phone call to an AP reporter from an undisclosed location late Saturday. "Taliban are not against education. The Taliban want Shariah (Islamic) education."

During its six years of fundamentalist rule, the former Taliban regime barred girls from class, and it has since waged a campaign of violence against state schools. Since its ouster by U.S.-led forces in late 2001, millions of Afghan children — including girls — have gone back to school, many for the first time.

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[rodeodance]

1. Where there is a void the Taliban is stepping in---with TEXTBOOKS:

.......The Taliban has this year carried out about 200 arson attacks on state schools and killed some 20 teachers, as its insurgency has gathered strength.

That's been a setback to a massive foreign-backed education campaign over the past five years to get Afghan children back to school — regarded as one of the successes in efforts to rebuild the war-battered country.

Since the Taliban's ouster, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of children attending school, according to a report by the development agency Oxfam, published late last year.

Some 5 million children, including girls, now attend school in Afghanistan, up from less than a million during Taliban rule. But 7 million children still do not receive any formal instruction.

Muthmahien said the Taliban's ruling council, or shura, had alloted $1 million to fund the new schools to open in the provinces of Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzgan, Helmand, Nimroz and Farah, and it would provide textbooks — the same used during Taliban rule. He said the schools program had been agreed with tribal elders in those regions.

[ohio2007]

9. The Taliban banned girls from education during their rule,

Seems they want to "impose" the same 'rules' in the area they say they control where they will teach the three R's

Religion
Religion and Religion

imo, they are talking to reporters and the reporters think the Taliban future is written in stone.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Fighting them is like trying to fight breathing in air.

Forget it, let them have it if that's what they want.

[OKNancy]

3. .. and turn your back on half the population

to be treated like property and slaves. That would be just great.

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[OKNancy]

5. I agree

" no real principles and awash in rank hypocrisy and apologia "
too many make apologies for the radical religionists because it suits their hate for all things Bush

but that isn't what you meant is it?

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[JohnyCanuck]

7. Wonder if they will still get free school supplies from the USA.

The Jihad Schoolbook Scandal...

Why has the US been Shipping Muslim Extremist Schoolbooks into Afghanistan...for 20 Years?

And why is President Bush hiding it?

By Jared Israel

SNIP

Washington Post investigators report that during the past twenty years the US has spent millions of dollars producing fanatical schoolbooks, which were then distributed in Afghanistan.

"The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books..." -- Washington Post, 23 March 2002 (1)

SNIP

For example here's what the Boston Globe wrote in an article about the obstacles to education in Afghanistan, a year after the US invasion:

"The obstacles to accomplishing that goal are enormous. What few schools impoverished Afghanistan once had - about 2,000 - are now all virtually destroyed, pummeled by gunfire or turned into refugee camps. Teachers here have not been paid for months, even years. Those schoolbooks that still exist are pro-Taliban screeds and deemed unusable.
-- Elizabeth Neuffer in the Boston Globe, March 17, 2002 (1A)

The article implies that the unusable textbooks were produced by and for the Taliban - "pro-Taliban screeds." The author, Elizabeth Neuffer, is the Globe's UN Bureau Chief. Surely she must know that the textbooks in question were made in USA and that the US is continuing to ship Islamist textbooks into Afghanistan. Instead of exposing the scandal that the US promotes Muslim fanaticism in Afghanistan, she misrepresents the books and misleads her readers.

http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/jihad.htm

[MrPrax]

8. Yo MODs?

Is that the new rule -- protect the deluded wordlview of American liberals and their grand defense of war crime?

My My ... so much self-righteous murdering and not enough folks left at DU to tell it like it is...

[ohio2007]

10. ? Maybe they can go fly a kite in Afghanistan, oh wait...

such activities as simple as kite flying was forbidden under the Taliban LOL