Afghan Schoolgirls Undeterred by Attacks

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Afghan Schoolgirls Undeterred by Attacks
OP - January 14, 2009, 03:03 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/world/asia/14kandahar.html?_r=1&ref=world

...."One morning two months ago, Shamsia Husseini and her sister were walking through the muddy streets to the local girls school when a man pulled alongside them on a motorcycle and posed what seemed like an ordinary question.

?Are you going to school??

Then the man pulled Shamsia?s burqa from her head and sprayed her face with burning acid. Scars, jagged and discolored, now spread across Shamsia?s eyelids and most of her left cheek. These days, her vision goes blurry, making it hard for her to read.

But if the acid attack against Shamsia and 14 others ? students and teachers ? was meant to terrorize the girls into staying home, it appears to have completely failed.

Today, nearly all of the wounded girls are back at the Mirwais School for Girls, including even Shamsia, whose face was so badly burned that she had to be sent abroad for treatment. Perhaps even more remarkable, nearly every other female student in this deeply conservative community has returned as well ? about 1,300 in all."....

interesting read

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Reply #1 - January 14, 2009, 04:43 PM

Well done girls! That's the way to stick it to the Taliban!

I'm glad to see that these girls are going back to school, even though the live in the midst of Taliban territory!

Thanks for the link Animation-guy.

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Reply #2 - January 14, 2009, 04:49 PM

And kudos to the school principal who rallied all the parents and got them to send their girls back to school!

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Reply #3 - January 14, 2009, 08:25 PM

Children in schools here need to read stories like this. It may make them work harder. Kids here don?t know how lucky there are.

...."Shamsia?s mother, like nearly all of the adult women in the area, is unable to read or write. ?The people who did this to me don?t want women to be educated. They want us to be stupid things.?....

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Reply #4 - January 14, 2009, 08:37 PM

Although I'm a firm advocate of free education for all, it does strike me that having it devalues it. If people have to pay for something or really suffer hardship to get it, they value it much more. There's something that is sparked within the human spirit by adversity.

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