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In the Northern Areas of Pakistan, mostly Swat, about a dozen schools for girls and adult/non formal education centres for women have been set afire and burnt to the ground in the past 48 hours. The arsonists call themselves Islamists and claim that they have the sole distribution rights to Islam on earth. Those schools represented tens of millions in physical assets, hundreds of...

Idiots, and lost munafiqs. Ahlul Bayt stressed heavily on education and knowledge, on both men and women.

There is a method to this madness brother, as well as a killer motive

Baghdad had 23 libraries and had streets washed in soap and water when Europeans didn't even know what soap was. These animals have no place in human civilisation, Islamic or otherwise. This post has been edited by Dirac Delta function : Yesterday, 01:19 PM

1. They call themselves Islamists. 2. Other "religious" political parties in the country acknowledge them as Islamist, and agitate against action that the government may take against them. 3. Keeping women away from moderm educations means perpetuating their subservience

This question is off topic but do you think that when countries and governments fund schooling and encourage it, they are doing it to increase the value of its workforce (economics motives) and not in reality to create awareness and knowledge in the society?

QUOTE (dingdong @ Aug 4 2008, 11:26 AM) This question is off topic but do you think that when countries and governments fund schooling and encourage it, they are doing it to increase the value of its workforce (economics motives) and not in reality to create awareness and knowledge in the society? The two ideas are connected. You produce a valuable workforce through awareness and...

1. Let us go back to the familiar dictum: There are no free lunches in life, everything has some strings attached. The same applies to societies/governments appropriating funds for the education of girls/women. No philanthropy involved. 2. There ARE situations where in a society more hands are needed to work than are available. For instance the Gulf States. So either import workers or ...

QUOTE (Dirac Delta function @ Aug 4 2008, 07:18 PM) These animals have no place in human civilisation, Islamic or otherwise. Each time there is a debate about Wahhabis, Saddam etc. I keep hearing these people being likened to animals. But these poor animals are acting according to their nature. Why the insults? Humans can be either higher than angels (because angels lack free ...

QUOTE (Rawshni @ Aug 4 2008, 11:34 AM) 1. Let us go back to the familiar dictum: There are no free lunches in life, everything has some strings attached. The same applies to societies/governments appropriating funds for the education of girls/women. No philanthropy involved. But they destroyed what was already invested in and in place. QUOTE (Rawshni @ Aug 4 2008, 11:34 AM)...