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Have you bought your ticket yet to go to this brave boy's funeral? While you are there, you can give the Pakistani government some of your own ideas how to protect the innocent people from suicide and car bombers. By the way, how conveniently Coyote omits the fact that I do know people who moved to Paklistan, and I worry about them every time I read about another car or suicide bomber which is a frequent occurrence. Moreover, if that brave young man happened to be a Hindu and I posted an article about what he did, my post would have been moved over to the Asia forum since Pakistan is in Southeast Asia..
I know students from Pakistan, and my mother has colleagues in Pakistan that I know as well. They didn't move there, they've always had to live there. There maybe others here who have Pakistani friends as well. It doesn't matter if the boy is Hindu, Muslim or Christian as far as I am concerned. It shouldn't.
Since you know someone in Pakistan, you can shed some insight with us, rather than talking about what Muslims are doing in other countries.
Sherri posted a good article about the state of government there.
It certainly doesn't bode well to young girls who want to get an education or teenaged boys who die preventing terrorism that their government is incapable of stopping.
PS - lets cut the third person shit, it just sounds retarded.
You don't think perhaps a family would move back to Pakistan if they had family there and wanted to be with them and also had ideas of starting a specific business there? I am sure there are plenty of Pakistanis living here in the U.S. who wanted to get away from there, just as there are Pakistanis moving to Australia because they are tired of the car and suicide bombings against their sect. By the way, why are you so interested in what is happening in Pakistan since this is the Middle East forum?
Why shouldn't I be interested in Pakistan? Is it forbidden or something? Can you not discuss what is going on in the OP?
But, mea culpa - you are right, I chose the wrong region to put this in, I did not realize it was "South Asia" so I shall move it - no biggie
I could have posted loads of stories from Pakistan, but I haven't done so, have I?
What is stopping you? Post what you want
If you are going to bring up young girls who want to get an education, why not also bring up the young Christian and Hindu girls who are being kidnapped, raped and forced into Islam. Don't these young girls count too?
Of course they count - why shouldn't they? Have you ignored topics on violence and rape on girls and women in India? It's a huge problem that was brought to the forefront by a particularly brutal and fatal rape of a young woman on a bus. The cultures in these regions are not kind to women to put it mildly and it spans multiple religions.
Is justice for women and children only of interest when the oppressors are Muslim? Whether it's Islamic extremists picking off young girls trying to get an education, Christian girls kidnapped and raped and forced into Islam or Hindus gang raping and killing girls and women because it's their "right" - it counts.
And, it counts too when it's a 15 yr old boy in Pakistan, dying to stop a suicide bomber from blowing up 2000 children in a school. 15 yr old boys shouldn't have to be dying that way. They should be worrying about their SAT's and whether they look cool enough - not about whether that is a detonator sticking out of some guy's jacket. Where is the justice? Where is the government who's job it is to prevent this?
It shouldn't be so hard to discuss these things unless you are only concerned with Muslim atrocities and if it can't written into that framework, it doesn't exist in your heart.