I am waiting for WEAC and Governor Doyle to issue their response to this Human Rights Watch report. I want to hear if there is any Democratic outrage that Islamic Jihadism has adopted the deliberate tactic of killing teachers and students.
Lessons in Terror: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan: Brutal attacks by armed opposition groups on Afghan teachers, students, and their schools have occurred throughout much of Afghanistan in recent months, particularly in the south.Teachers are especially easy targets when hunting humans. The report details in 142 pages, the latest in the Islamic approach to education. Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hizbullah, Hamas or whatever nom de plume the Jihadist movement adopts for the local geography, the goals of the movement are the same and only the opportunity to fully achieve them differs. Maybe the Educators for Social Responsibility study guide for the War in Iraq should rethink some discussion questions.
As detailed below, groups opposed to the authority of the Afghan central government and its international supporters have increasingly filled this vacuum, using tactics such as suicide bombings and attacks on “soft targets” such as schools and teachers to instill terror in ordinary Afghans and thus turn them away from a central government that is unable to protect them.
Essential Questions about the War with Iraq: What role does culture, government, and religion play in these situations? In what ways have differences in culture, political philosophies, and religion exacerbated tensions? How can we work with cultural, political, and religious diversity to find solutions?Updated question: How can we work with cultural, political and religious diversity to find solutions when gunmen open fire in a classroom because of their “ideological opposition to education other than that offered in madrassas (Islamic schools), and in particular opposition to girls’ education”?
