WHY???

Disembowelled and murdered for teaching girls

GHAZNI – The gunmen came at night to drag Mohammed Halim away from his home, in front of his crying children and his wife begging for mercy.

The 46-year-old schoolteacher tried to reassure his family that he would return safely.

But his life was over.

He was partly disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes. The remains were put on display as a warning to others against defying Taleban orders to stop educating girls.

Halim is one of four teachers killed in rapid succession by the Islamists at Ghazni, a strategic point on the routes from Kabul to the south and east which has become the scene of fierce clashes between the Taleban and United States and Afghan forces.
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Fatima Mustaq, the director of education at Ghazni, has had repeated death threats, the notorious ‘night letters’. Her gender, as well as her refusal to send girls home from school, has made her a hate figure for Islamist zealots. “I think they killed him that way to frighten us, otherwise why make a man suffer so much? Mohammed Halim and his family were good friends of ours and we are very, very upset by what has happened. He came to me when the threats first began and asked what he should do. I told him to move somewhere safe. I think he was trying to arrange that when they came and took him.”
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During the Taleban’s rule she and her sister ran secret schools for girls at their home. “They found out and raided us. We managed to persuade them that we were only teaching the Koran. But they spied and found out we were teaching algebra. So they came and beat us. Can you imagine, beating someone for teaching algebra.”

I don’t think a fraction of people in this country understand just how lucky we are. Children thirsting for knowledge, teachers literally DYING to teach. I can’t even begin to comment on the disgust I feel after reading this article for the so called “religion of peace” that blindly accepts this sort of outrage.

The things running through my mind….gratitude for our generations of soldiers who have kept us safe from “animals”, the “cut and run” crowd I’d like to physically slap right now, the First Amendment that guarantees our freedom OF religion, the Second Amendment that will keep us safe if such pigs dare to set foot on our shores, and a President who is aware of the dangers.

Thanks Kathy!