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"Doctors have removed a bullet lodged near the spine of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl gunned down on her school bus by the Taliban, officials said Wednesday."
"The Pakistani Taliban said it had dispatched a gunman to kill Yousafzai, a ninth-grader, because the militant group considered her a pro-Western symbol of “infidels and obscenity.” If she survives, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday, it will try to kill her again."
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But religious parties and mosque leaders were largely silent, highlighting the grip that right-wing clerics hold on this increasingly conservative, majority-Muslim country. Religious leaders here rarely denounce suicide bombings or sectarian attacks for fear of provoking the Taliban.
“These religious parties have strong ideological links to the Taliban. Conceptually, there is not much difference between them. They want to control the state and take up jihad against the West,” said Ijaz Khattak, a professor at the University of Peshawar who knows Yousafzai and her father, an educator and a member of Swat’s peace jirga, or tribal council. "
We all know that we can't lay this at the door of Islam...so I would like to invite all Christian haters to flood this thread shrieking about how Christians killed Muslims in the Crusades a millenia ago. Cuz it's THEIR fault. *Cue Truthseeker* the Taliban apologist.
Pakistani girl still unconscious after surgery; clerics mostly silent on shooting - The Washington Post
"The Pakistani Taliban said it had dispatched a gunman to kill Yousafzai, a ninth-grader, because the militant group considered her a pro-Western symbol of “infidels and obscenity.” If she survives, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday, it will try to kill her again."
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But religious parties and mosque leaders were largely silent, highlighting the grip that right-wing clerics hold on this increasingly conservative, majority-Muslim country. Religious leaders here rarely denounce suicide bombings or sectarian attacks for fear of provoking the Taliban.
“These religious parties have strong ideological links to the Taliban. Conceptually, there is not much difference between them. They want to control the state and take up jihad against the West,” said Ijaz Khattak, a professor at the University of Peshawar who knows Yousafzai and her father, an educator and a member of Swat’s peace jirga, or tribal council. "
We all know that we can't lay this at the door of Islam...so I would like to invite all Christian haters to flood this thread shrieking about how Christians killed Muslims in the Crusades a millenia ago. Cuz it's THEIR fault. *Cue Truthseeker* the Taliban apologist.
Pakistani girl still unconscious after surgery; clerics mostly silent on shooting - The Washington Post
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