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2006-11-09 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Here's the breakdown: (admittedly, it only accounts for a little less than half of the dead)

Fazal Hakim Gul Rehman (24)
Gul Hassan Hassan Khan (31)
Nawab Khan Amirzada (31)
Sultanat Khan Shamasur Rehman (25)
Ismail Khan Syed Ahmed Jan (29)
Zaheruddin Sirajuddin (20)
Abdul Karim Abdullah Jan (33)
Hayatullah Gambir Khan (27)
Wali Syed Muhammad Saeed (24)
Tehsil Khan Sher Zaman Khan (22)
Ziaur Rehman Taj Muhammad (23)
Ikramullah Sultan Zameen (27)
Inayatur Rehman Fateh Rehman (23)
Rahatullah Sultan Zameen (23)
Khan Muhammad Khan Jan (34)
Shahabuddin Fatehur Rehman (28)
Karim Khan Gul Karim Khan (32)
Sharifullah Azam Khan (30)
Muhammad Younis Rahim Jan (20)
Inayatur Rehman Rafiullah (24)
Iftikhar Khan Sher Zaman (25)
Shah Jahan Gul Jan (20)
Abdul Waris Mussafar (20)
Muhammad Ishaq Lali Mullah (23)
Rehmatullah Fazal Sher (34)
Maulvi Liaquat Abdur Rahim (40)
Muhammad Tahir Khalifa (26)
Ghulam Nabi Bacha Khan (25)
Fazal Subhan (30)
Saleem Mohammad Karim (20)
Bakht Munir Adam (30)
Gul Sher Habib (30)
Jamrooz Yar Zaman (24)
Noor Muhamad Chanaray (21)
Fazal-e-Wahab Abdul Saboor (26)
Namer Bismillah Khan (35)
Shabbir Gul Amin (20)

A cumulative total of 979 years divided by 37 known dead equals an average age of 26½ years. Ideal fighting age and nothing but. Now let's look at the media reports on this:

Gulf News

Published: 11/06/2006 12:00 AM (UAE)

Most casualties in air raid 'were teens'

Islamabad: Almost all of the 80 victims of last week's air strike on an Islamic school in a tribal region were children or teenagers, according to the country's largest Islamic opposition party.

Indian Muslims

Indian Muslims, California - Nov 6, 2006

Many children among 80 Bajaur air strike victims

BBC News

Pakistan madrassa raid 'kills 80'

At least 80 militants have been killed in an air strike by Pakistani forces on a madrassa (religious school) used as a militant training camp, the army says. The army said the madrassa in the tribal area of Bajaur bordering Afghanistan was destroyed by helicopter gunships early on Monday. One eyewitness told the BBC that 70-80 students were inside. A leading local politician says the dead were innocent.

Perhaps the other half of the casualties were children. It's time for Pakistani mothers to learn that madreassahs aren't the best place to let your children hang out.

To forestall any critics; I am well aware of how the madrassahs often represent the only opportunity for dirt poor kids to get an education. Seeing as how that education consists all together of memorizing the Koran and absolutely nothing else, I feel not one whit of sympathy over this. These madrassahs are the biggest single breeding ground for international terrorists in this entire world and the sooner all of them receive the same treatment as Bajaur, the better off our planet will be.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-09 05:46|| 2006-11-09 05:46|| Front Page Top

#2 the madrassahs often represent the only opportunity for dirt poor kids to get an education.

It isn't really an education though, is it. It's an opportunity to be beaten into memorizing the Koran in a language the boys don't understand, while being fed, clothed and sheltered, however poorly. Moat madrassahs are really dumping grounds for surplus sons, which prepare them to become surplus adults hoping to be fed by the congregations they serve as itinerant preachers -- of which there is a glut on the market, hence the easy transition to cannon fodder.

Or perhaps I'm just dyspeptic this morning.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-09 07:50|| 2006-11-09 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 It isn't really an education though, is it.

Rote memorization, not even of the Bible or Torah, represents actual education. Upon further reflection, we may well have done any children who perished a favor. trailing wife, if as you say, that the madrassahs are a dumping ground for "surplus sons", then it is likely that such uncaring familes will not rise up against the rampant sexual abuse of these youngsters.

I urge all of you to read, The Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Terrorism by Phyllis Chesler. It was linked by regular Rantburg contributor A5089 in his Tuesday post titled, "Reformed jihadi tells it all about muslim imperialism". Chesler's eye-opening article documents the dangerous fallout of sexually repressed Islam, the horrible sexual toll it takes upon youth and the psychological aftermath that easily can lead to terrorist inclinations in resolving such sexual trauma.

As I said, we may well have done the youngest children a favor by dispatching them from a situation of near-constant sexual abuse. Once you have read Chesler's article, you will be unable ever to view Islam in the same light again, regarless of how negative your own impression may already be. It is not only Islam's women who suffer daily torment, but quite possibly huge numbers of its children as well. The often incestuous nature of this abuse literally guarantees its harm will remain buried and lurk as a repressed or latent factor in distorting the world view of young Muslims and their willingness to die while killing others in the process. When this abuse is not incestuous, it all too frequently transpires under the guise of religious authority, leaving scars of a unique and spiritually disfiguring nature.

The Pakistani madrassahs may well represent one of the largest networks of ritualized child sexual abuse in the entire world. Far exceeding even Thailand's underage sex trade. This represents a new angle in how to go about dismantling the madrassah network, however much human rights NGOs will probably turn a blind eye to it. Somehow, the scope and depth of this filthy depraved system must be brought out into sterilizing sunlight.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-09 13:05|| 2006-11-09 13:05|| Front Page Top

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