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Pakistan Charsadda: Gun battle at Bacha Khan un

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Pakistan Charsadda: Gun battle at Bacha Khan university


World | 206728 hits | Jan 19 11:16 pm | Posted by: martin14
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Security forces in north-west Pakistan are battling militants inside a university in the town of Charsadda, with reports of deaths.

Comments

  1. by avatar martin14
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 7:22 am
    University of 'symbolic value' to Islamists
    Posted at 07:07

    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.

  2. by avatar martin14
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:35 am
    19 dead, 50 wounded.. so far.

  3. by Jin-Gitaxias
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:38 am
    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.

  4. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:47 am
    "Jin-Gitaxias" said
    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.

  5. by Jin-Gitaxias
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:50 am
    I think that any university is better than a bunch of thugs with nothing resembling an education.

  6. by avatar martin14
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 11:08 am
    "Jin-Gitaxias" said
    I think that any university is better than a bunch of thugs with nothing resembling an education.



    "Jin-Gitaxias" said
    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 ?

  7. by Jin-Gitaxias
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 11:49 am
    "martin14" said
    I think that any university is better than a bunch of thugs with nothing resembling an education.



    "Jin-Gitaxias" said
    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.

  8. by avatar martin14
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:29 pm
    "Jin-Gitaxias" said

    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.

  9. by Jin-Gitaxias
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:57 pm
    "martin14" said
    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?

  10. by avatar desertdude
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 4:01 pm
    "Jin-Gitaxias" said
    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.

  11. by Jin-Gitaxias
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 4:04 pm
    "desertdude" said
    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.

  12. by avatar andyt
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 4:18 pm
    "martin14" said

    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.

  13. by avatar desertdude
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:52 pm
    "andyt" said
    What an idiotic statement.


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

  14. by Lemmy
    Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:02 pm
    "desertdude" said
    we are...sub humans





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