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Day of the Girl

Posted 10/11/2012 4:27:00 AM

Today is October 11^th, the first International Day of the Girl, created by the United Nations last December. A note from the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters says this day is to put a spotlight on issues girls experience just because they are girls. If they had a poster child, it would have to be 14 year old Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan. The Taliban wants her dead. They shot her in the head and neck but she is still alive and the Taliban vows to finish her off. Why do they declare war on this child? She dares to suggest girls should get an education. The Taliban has already closed or destroyed hundreds of schools and poisoned or thrown acid in the faces of girls daring to better themselves. We’ve been hearing about this for years, but now the issue has a human face, Malala Yousafzai. Various world leaders are calling her attempted assassination barbaric and cowardly. There are some brave women demonstrating in the streets against the attack. At what point does the entire region rise up and take on the Taliban? What does it take for slaves to rise up against their masters? Let me know what you think, on this, the International Day of the Girl.

By the way, on the topic of women having the opportunity to reach their full potential, my wife Marg, and I will be speaking at the Women's Wellness Event in Barrhead, November 2nd. http://www.facebook.com/WomensWellnessDay

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Bob $ posted on 10/11/2012 10:30 AM
Mohammed was illiterate,...couldn't read or write,...whatever the language of the day was. This has been confirmed by clerics and imams over the centuries. All of his "recitations" for his Quran were strictly verbal, as well as all after him, were from memory and translated and written down by clerics. He couldn't read it if he wanted to!
The Taliban use this as an excuse as to why education is not necessary,...but they don't explain why it only applies to young girls. They don't explain a lot of things. What a sick society!!!
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fred posted on 10/11/2012 10:44 AM This comment was edited by a moderator at 11:34 AM on 10/11/2012
For years the western world has been trying to "teach" these people. We have spent millions of dollars and time. Are we sure they want to learn?
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1. Bob $ posted on 10/11/2012 01:00 PM
  @fred Millions??? Fred,...billions and billions! What I have never seen yet, is any pictures of all the progress Canada has made in educating and helping these people,..unless I'm supposed to pick out the progress out f the piles of rubble that at one time or another that was a school that we built that was destroyed by the AlQuida and Taliban!
  
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Garry Chubb posted on 10/11/2012 10:50 AM This comment was edited by a moderator at 11:35 AM on 10/11/2012
This type of thinking is NOT going to change with the Taliban. They are barbarians,...period! They will never change their views or their murderous ideology!

Let's get the troops out of those countries, Canadian and USA, and seal up our borders to keep this poison out of OUR country. If we don't do that, it won't be long before this kind of brain cancer will start permeating through like-minds HERE! This brain cancer will never heal,...NEVER!
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The Infidel - Mr. John posted on 10/11/2012 10:55 AM
"The Taliban wants her dead. They shot her in the head and neck but she is still alive and the Taliban vows to finish her off."
You have to wonder just what kind of sick society we are dealing with here,..that a 14 year old girl can instill such fear in them that they have to react by killing her!
I think they are sampling waaaaaayyyyyy too much of all that opium and heroin that they are cultivating over there in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan! These countries supply over 90% of the world's opium for heroin production in the WORLD,...and all of this under the protection of the US troops,....can we see a problem here???
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Newshawker posted on 10/11/2012 11:02 AM This comment was edited by a moderator at 11:32 AM on 10/11/2012
"The Taliban has already closed or destroyed hundreds of schools and poisoned or thrown acid in the faces of girls daring to better themselves"
So then, why are we still pouring billions into this war and development of schools and infrastructure that is only going to be used for "turkey-shoot" bombers to destroy.
Viewing pictures of just about any part of these countries show only rubble and huge numbers of bombed out buildings and death. Let's let them return to this lifestyle, without our help. We are accomplishing absolutely NOTHING over there,...except to bring back more troops dead bodies. What, exactly, are they dying for over there....democracy!
Good luck, we're quickly losing any semblance of democracy HERE. We need to pull out and start working on correcting our situation here!

Bob replies: This happened in Pakistan, not Afghanistan.
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Big John posted on 10/11/2012 01:14 PM
Perhaps our fearleaders here in Canada could accomplish just ONE useful thing over in these countries that they are all spending BILLIONS of dollars over there, producing massive debts for us and just more dead soldiers.
Bring this girl out of there,....to civilization! She could do more over here for her people....than ALL that has been accomplished by all these "democratic" countries have in 10 years of war!
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1. The Infidel - Mr.John posted on 10/15/2012 09:06 AM
  @Big John The Brits jumped on this week-end and got her out of there...."she could do more over here for her people"...don't worry, they for sure will use her to that end!
  
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Jenny J posted on 10/11/2012 01:18 PM This comment was edited by a moderator at 04:23 AM on 10/12/2012
The Taliban are muslim, part of the peaceful religion! Is there nobody there, in the entire male population with any kahunas that can stand together long enough to protect this little girl? Obviously NOT!
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Glen S.R. Woytuck posted on 10/14/2012 02:47 AM
In many of these Muslim countries, it seems it is the women and girls that are standing up to the cowardly taliban. Perhaps we should quit wasting our time on the men and train/arm only women. I think they seem to be more likely to fight for what is right even without our help, imagine what they could do with it.
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