Informative article! I understand the Taliban want to stifle education as well so I thought that might be an additional motive. My take thought is that it doesn't matter what they think or say, because killing innocent people, especially innocent children, can never serve justice of any right kind. It seems punishing innocent people for offenses committed by others is an illogical behavior that recurs in Islamic culture. Several years ago I read that in South Pakistan a group of clerics gang raped the younger sister of a boy as punishmnet for the boy's having had an affair with an older woman out of wedlock. There is something self serving and cowardly, ultimately dishonorable in every sense, in substituting revenge or dishonor for justice. I can't imagine the Taliban will not pay dearly for their recent crimes and sins. I assume the Pakistani military are probably going to avenge this until they are satsified.
Informative article! I understand the Taliban want to stifle education as well so I thought that might be an additional motive. My take thought is that it doesn't matter what they think or say, because killing innocent people, especially innocent children, can never serve justice of any right kind. It seems punishing innocent people for offenses committed by others is an illogical behavior that recurs in Islamic culture. Several years ago I read that in South Pakistan a group of clerics gang raped the younger sister of a boy as punishmnet for the boy's having had an affair with an older woman out of wedlock. There is something self serving and cowardly, ultimately dishonorable in every sense, in substituting revenge or dishonor for justice. I can't imagine the Taliban will not pay dearly for their recent crimes and sins. I assume the Pakistani military are probably going to avenge this until they are satsified.