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India-Pakistan
Girls' seminary torched in Swabi
2011-05-20
[Dawn] Unidentified persons torched a religious seminary for girls in Maneri Payyan village of the district on late Tuesday night.
Even rote memorization of the Holy Book is too much feminine education for some people. After all, if the girls know what it says, they know when their superior menfolk are getting it wrong.
The incident infuriated residents of the area as several copies of the Holy Koran were also burnt in the incident.
Ever so much more important than improving the piety of future cooks and bottle washers.
The attackers targeted a seminary at Mottikhel area of Maneri Payyan where girls were learning the Holy Koran from women teachers, officials said, adding an FIR was registered in Swabi City cop shoppe against unidentified persons.

The people in the neighborhood said that attackers entered the seminary by scaling the boundary wall and broke the lock of a room where copies of the Holy Korans were put in cupboards.
They deliberately used Holy Books as fire starters, it wasn't just that they were within reach of the flames? Nothing need be done, then, as Allah Himself will surely punish the evil-doers.
Soon after the incident, heavy contingent of police reached the site. Two persons, who reportedly saw the arsonists, were taken into custody for investigation.

Police officials said that they would trace the accused soon. Exemplary punishment would be awarded to them, they added.

The news of the incident spread like jungle fire in the area and hundreds of enraged people erupted into the streets. They demanded early arrest of the accused and exemplary punished to them. They threatened to stage protest demonstrations across the district if police failed to arrest the accused.

The district administration officials also visited the seminary and pledged stern action against the perpetrators.

Provincial deputy secretary of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl Maulana Fazal Ali and district chief of Jamaat-i-Islami Saeed Zada visited the seminary and said that both the parties would hold a joint protest demonstration against the incident on Friday.

The leaders of the religious parties rejected the official version and claimed that about 200 copies of the Holy Koran were burnt. "We visited the seminary and saw everything. The administration should immediately arrest the people involved in the ignominious act," said Mr Ali.
Must've been atheists, desirous of forcing the girls into secular state schools. No Muslim would do such a thing, after all.
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