[Newsbot]

Title: Pakistan Charsadda: Gun battle at Bacha Khan university
Category: World
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2016-01-19 23:16:11

[martin14]

University of 'symbolic value' to Islamists
Posted at 07:07

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The Pashtun nationalist movement from which Bacha Khan university draws its name were opposed to the Afghan Islamist resistance against the Russians during the 1980s and also oppose the Taliban, notes the BBC's Ilyas Khan.

As such, an attack on the university holds symbolic value to Islamists.

I guess symbolic just wasn't good enough anymore.

[martin14]

19 dead, 50 wounded.. so far.

[Jin-Gitaxias]

I just hope that the university students of Pakistan have the strength to fight back.

Education makes every country better. The universities of the Middle East must be protected.

[Freakinoldguy]

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

I just hope that the university students of Pakistan have the strength to fight back.

Education makes every country better. The universities of the Middle East must be protected.

Only the ones that don't promote radial Islam, hate, misoginy, religous and cultural intolerance because, those the world can do without.

[Jin-Gitaxias]

I think that any university is better than a bunch of thugs with nothing resembling an education.

[martin14]

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

I think that any university is better than a bunch of thugs with nothing resembling an education.

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

Education makes every country better. The universities of the Middle East must be protected.

You mean like the University of Westminster, where Jihadi John went to school ?

[Jin-Gitaxias]

martin14 martin14:

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

I think that any university is better than a bunch of thugs with nothing resembling an education.

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

Education makes every country better. The universities of the Middle East must be protected.

You mean like the University of Westminster, where Jihadi John went to school ?

The University of Westminster is an ordinary university. Are you seriously arguing that universities create terrorists?

Arguing that Universities create terrorists is like arguing that down is up.

[martin14]

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

The University of Westminster is an ordinary university. Are you seriously arguing that universities create terrorists?

No, I am arguing against the tired old Liberal paternalistic idea that if we just educate the
poor savages, they will become all normal and stop bombing us.

It seems the opposite is true.

[Jin-Gitaxias]

martin14 martin14:

No, I am arguing against the tired old Liberal paternalistic idea that if we just educate the
poor savages, they will become all normal and stop bombing us.

It seems the opposite is true.

Why won't that work? They are still human. If we can be educated and civil then they can be civilized.

Right?

[desertdude]

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

They are still human.

Thats where you are wrong as stated many times by the forth club here, we are either blood thirst savages or some kind of sub humans that need to be eradicated.

[Jin-Gitaxias]

desertdude desertdude:

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

They are still human.

Thats where you are wrong as stated many times by the forth club here, we are either blood thirst savages or some kind of sub humans that need to be eradicated.

Lots of philosophers talk about nature vs. nurture.

I prefer to lean towards nurture. There is hope for the Middle East.

[andyt]

martin14 martin14:

Jin-Gitaxias Jin-Gitaxias:

The University of Westminster is an ordinary university. Are you seriously arguing that universities create terrorists?

No, I am arguing against the tired old Liberal paternalistic idea that if we just educate the
poor savages, they will become all normal and stop bombing us.

It seems the opposite is true.

What an idiotic statement. The school didn't attack itself. It was attacked exactly by people who are against education. This lends some credene to Jin-Gitaxias idea.

It's about more than education tho. We need to stop playing various games of footsie with the rules that also want to keep their people ignorant, and let's just hope that Iraq has taught us the folly of thinking we can just impose our ideas on these people. Although by comments on this board among others, it sounds like some of our people aren't exactly fast learners either.

[desertdude]

andyt andyt:

What an idiotic statement.

Were you expecting something smart and intelligent from moron14 ? Your mistake!

[Lemmy]

desertdude desertdude:

we are...sub humans