"shot For Going To School" - Bbc Documentary

[LazyGun]

A heads up for those interested.

Documentary recounting Malala Yousafzai's story, and similar issues in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/27/shot-for-going-to-school.html

[naomi24]

Thanks LG. Should be interesting.

[keyplus90]

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/187232/

http://www.crescent-online.net/2012/11/was-malala-yousafzai-used-for-a-larger-us-plan-zafar-bangash-3412-articles.html

[chrisgel]

Keyplus - What a despicable feeble attempt to justify what happened to that young girl. You really have no shame do you?

[naomi24]

Chris, if propaganda is to be grabbed, Keyplus will grab it. Anything to defend the indefensible actions of fundamentalist Islam.

[ummmm]

Gobsmacked!!!!!!!!

[DTCwordfan]

I will make this an unholy alliance and agree with you, ummmm and naomi. This view that keyplus has portrayed here borders on being sickening and is utterly disgraceful. It's one of the worst things I have read on AB this year.

[LazyGun]

This has been Keyplus' response to this incident all along. To half-heartedly condemn what happened, but in the same breath to insinuate it was a US black flag operation. If that alone is not enough to moderate the readers justifiable concern over such cold-blooded villainy, an attempt is made to deflect attention from or to mitigate the offence by pointing out that many innocent girls have been killed as a consequence of US led military actions in Afghanistan, or drone stikes in Pakistan.It was an obscene response when he first said it, it is equally obscene when he repeats it now.

I can - sort of - understand where the motivation for this response comes from, but that does not excuse such an equivocal or defensive response from a supporter of Islam and a muslem, who see the incursion by the West into Afghanistan as an unprovoked assault on peaceable muslims and drone strikes as the Wests very own terrorist assault. I believe this to be a subjectively false and blindly defensive viewpoint, but it does have a kernel of truth at its heart.


The deaths of any innocent civilian, most especially children, as unintended victims of targeted attacks on taliban fighters or suspected terrorists should indeed be cause for serious concern and outrage here in the west, there should be no question of that. We should be holding the intelligence services and the military to account for drone strikes especially.

The motivations for a western military incursion into Afghanistan are questionable at best, and the subsequent loss of life, of service personnel and Afghan civilians difficult to justify -never mind the staggering cost to taxpayers- most especially given the long drawn out exit with little or nothing to show for it show that we should have been talking and ending the war long ago.

And drone strikes in Pakistan are certainly morally questionable, if not downright illegal.

None of the above though justifies targeting young girls and putting a bullet in their head as a means of instilling terror and cowing the population into submitting to medieval principles of mysogyny, endorsed by a zealous and fundamentalist interpretation of a religion.

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[keyplus90]

/////Keyplus - What a despicable feeble attempt to justify what happened to that young girl. You really have no shame do you?/////

Whatever happened to that poor girl is as painful for me as if it had happened to my own daughter. But unlike you all, I can't stop there as I have to think about all of the other innocent children being killed there too as they are all like my own children. And when it comes to innocent people anywhere in the world then I don't do pick and choose like majority of the people do here.

[emmie]

she was shot for wanting to better herself, your stance is reprehensible.

[keyplus90]

I condemn that and have done that many times. But many others have been killed there while just playing in their court yards. Why dont you condemn that too. Why pick and choose?

[RATTER15]

Keyplus, you disgust me!!!

[emmie]

i do, but this is about young girls, women in many Islamic countries.... those who's lives are blighted by lack of education, being forced into marriages when still children, often to much older men, the list is endless.

[naomi24]

Do you mean things like this, Keyplus?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22752394

I condemn that with no hesitation.

[keyplus90]

////RATTER15
Keyplus, you disgust me!!!////


Because I asked you to condemn few more innocent. How strange.


Thanks for condemning that Naomi. And I do too.


Now please condemn this as well. Let’s see if there is any hesitation.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Children+died+due+to+drone+attacks&client=firefox-a&hs=HEQ&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&;sa=X&ei=PgnTUcz4Icz50gXirIGgBA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=598

[emmie]

sure we could find as many pictures, of women, children killed by the Taliban, they don't care who gets killed....

[keyplus90]

Let me know if you condemn these too. As for taliban, then please speak to USA govt that why are they trying to negotiate with people who kill children? I thought their stance was that they would never talk to Taliban until they would lay down their weapons.

[emmie]

because the Taliban will kill no matter, so better perhaps for the moment to get them around the table, it probably won't work, and more bloodshed will ensue if they get a real foothold in Afghanistan or anywhere for that matter.

[keyplus90]

Naomi is taking her time. She is probably picking and chosing which one she should condemn.

[emmie]

no she is wondering how to reply to someone who is so wretchedly blinkered.

[keyplus90]

And most importantly, which one should just ignore.