Terrorism That’s Personal

[TexAG]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/op...stof.html?_r=1

Terrorism in this part of the world usually means bombs exploding or hotels burning, as the latest horrific scenes from Mumbai attest. Yet alongside the brutal public terrorism that fills the television screens, there is an equally cruel form of terrorism that gets almost no attention and thrives as a result: flinging acid on a woman’s face to leave her hideously deformed.

Here in Pakistan, I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through Cambodia (men are almost never attacked with acid). Because women usually don’t matter in this part of the world, their attackers are rarely prosecuted and acid sales are usually not controlled. It’s a kind of terrorism that becomes accepted as part of the background noise in the region.

This month in Afghanistan, men on motorcycles threw acid on a group of girls who dared to attend school. One of the girls, a 17-year-old named Shamsia, told reporters from her hospital bed: “I will go to my school even if they kill me. My message for the enemies is that if they do this 100 times, I am still going to continue my studies.”

[Christine Murray]

Robert Fisk: Once more fear stalks the streets of Kandahar - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent

The issue of Violence against women and girls who seek an education is ongoing
in the VAW Campaign by the UN, which seeks measurable reforms in addressing these issues
- rather than the gung-ho bomb them into submission mentality that was used as an excuse
for war campaigns that have done absolutely nothing to benefit Women.

[irish_bob]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/op...stof.html?_r=1

Terrorism in this part of the world usually means bombs exploding or hotels burning, as the latest horrific scenes from Mumbai attest. Yet alongside the brutal public terrorism that fills the television screens, there is an equally cruel form of terrorism that gets almost no attention and thrives as a result: flinging acid on a woman’s face to leave her hideously deformed.

Here in Pakistan, I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through Cambodia (men are almost never attacked with acid). Because women usually don’t matter in this part of the world, their attackers are rarely prosecuted and acid sales are usually not controlled. It’s a kind of terrorism that becomes accepted as part of the background noise in the region.

This month in Afghanistan, men on motorcycles threw acid on a group of girls who dared to attend school. One of the girls, a 17-year-old named Shamsia, told reporters from her hospital bed: “I will go to my school even if they kill me. My message for the enemies is that if they do this 100 times, I am still going to continue my studies.”

the religous nutjobs who did this are the real enemys of the afghan people , not the soldiers from overseas

[Xipe Totec]

Regressive tribalist patriarchs have been throwing acid and spilling blood of women in Afghanistan since 70s and 80s, when the socialist government implemented progressive healthcare and education reforms.

The US government's response was to reward them with rpgs and money.


Just a friendly reminder that imperialist rhetorical outrage is empty moralising and should be discarded in favour of analysing their actions