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pekeefer

Taliban Suicide Bombers Strike at Bank in Southern Afghanistan - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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ethnic conflict religion

shared by pekeefer on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Suicide bombers attacked a bank in a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people, officials said
  • The last attacker’s suicide vest did not explode, and he was shot dead.Given the number of staff members and customers present on the second floor, the police said that the number of dead would have been far higher had the attackers succeeded in getting there.
  • A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, said that the group claimed responsibility for the attack and that the targets were government officials who were at the bank collecting their wages.
  • pekeefer on 18 Dec 14
     
    The Taliban attack on this local bank has to do with religious values because they are willing to go to extreme measures,much like suicide bombings, as they are considered extremists. One question I have is why would a spokesman for the Taliban admit to the attack?
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  • pekeefer on 18 Dec 14
     
    The Taliban attack on this local bank has to do with religious values because they are willing to go to extreme measures,much like suicide bombings, as they are considered extremists. One question I have is why would a spokesman for the Taliban admit to the attack?
  • edietterick on 18 Dec 14
     
    I think your question was very good and sensible, because who would do something like that. He's risking so much! This article was very interesting and related strongly to class. Great job!
  • kskurcenski on 18 Dec 14
     
    I have the same question! Why would they admit to the attack and put a target back on themselves? If they want to go kill people and people gave their lives to the attack, why would their organization admit to it? It was a waste of the bombers' lives.
  • lexihoffman on 19 Dec 14
     
    I agree with all of you! Why would they admit to the attack? That just seems stupid on their part. It's just going to hurt them more. I like what Kyra said about how it's a waist of bombers lives and I totally agree. Great article, it really related to religious conflicts!
  • jlandis3 on 19 Dec 14
     
    This article connects to the APHUG vocabulary term of monotheistic/monotheism, because the Taliban practices the Islamic religion, which worships one God, Allah, and a monotheistic religion is one that believes in only one God. This article could also connect with a past world event, regarding religious conflict, when the Crusades occurred, and Christians tried to conform others to Christianity.
  • amartin55 on 20 Dec 14
     
    Pretty sure they admitted to the attack because the Taliban is all about terror and it will actually help their organization not hurt it. They do this to let people know the extremes they'll go to to get their way. So any one, or thing, they don't agree with, they feel that the only solution is to blow them up, because of course that is the solution that gets the most results since they don't have the power of a large group of people. Everybody knows they are terrorists so it's not like anything has changed in peoples viewpoint of the Taliban. Meaning not much has changed in the military or political actions against them.
rdeveney

'Infidels are our enemy': Afghan fighters cherish old American schoolbooks | Al Jazeera... - 2 views

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shared by rdeveney on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • More alarmingly for U.S. and international forces still in the country, the textbooks describe all nonbelievers as the enemy. “Our religion is Islam. Muhammad is our leader. All the Russians and infidels are our enemy.”
  • That built resentment toward foreigners and Kabul in some villages passed over for such support. “If people perceive that their enemy is getting more of those services, then that could contribute to the underlying conditions for conflict,
  • “When you have a school not set up in a government structure but in a home or a mosque, in the village, protected by the village and supported by the villagers, the likelihood of the school being attacked is reduced,” she said. “And you don't have construction, so you don't have problems with contracts.”
  • rdeveney on 18 Dec 14
     
    There was conflict between the Taliban and the Westerns and those who support the western views, because of the different religious and ethnic views. For example westerns believe women should be educated just like men, but the Taliban is against women education. Why is a school in a home that teaches the same thing that a governmentally funded school less likely to be attacked, since the Taliban is still against those ideas?
  • mholbert on 21 Dec 14
     
    I think that as long as the Taliban are in control there will always be violence between the Taliban and the Westerners. Women should be educated just like men, but as long as the Taliban have power, I do not think that will happen. The Taliban showed just how much they are against women getting an education when they shot Malala Yousafzai in the head on her way home from school. Schools in homes are less likely to be attacked than schools run by the government because they have the protection and support of the village and villagers. The Taliban might also target government run schools because they oppose the government.
fruszkowski

Taliban school attack: 145 killed in Pakistan siege - CNN.com - 1 views

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shared by fruszkowski on 19 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • By the time the hours-long siege at Army Public School and Degree College ended early Tuesday evening, at least 145 people -- 132 children, 10 school staff members and three soldiers
  • The attack drew sharp condemnation from top Pakistani officials, who vowed that the country wouldn't stop its war against the Taliban.
  • But he said the ambush at the school is another example of how great his nation's sacrifices have been in fighting that's raged for more than a decade.
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  • Peshawar, an ancient city of more than 3 million people tucked right up against the Khyber Pass, has often found itself in the center of it all. Militants repeatedly targeted the city in response to Pakistani military offensives,
  • fruszkowski on 19 Dec 14
     
    The extremist Islamic group Taliban has attacked a Pakistani school for religious purposes. These conflicts occur because of strong religious opposition to modern government.Why would they target children of all people.
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  • dknepper on 19 Dec 14
     
    I know that the extremist group, the Taliban, hate western views because they are very religious in the Islamic faith, but I also find it strange that the Taliban would attack a school full of children. Maybe it was to really cause an impact on the people living in Pakistan and to make those people scared.
  • amartin55 on 20 Dec 14
     
    Its such a shame that the Taliban commits these kinds of acts because it gives muslims in general a bad reputation even though REAL muslims condone their acts and have no affiliation with them. This also causes racism towards muslims because unfortunately the Taliban is the only thing we hear about that is affiliated with muslims from western media.
  • neeltrivedi on 22 Dec 14
     
    The Taliban are a vile extremist group of Islam, and unfortunately very loud, we sadly only hear horrible, violent things from such a peaceful religion.
  • neeltrivedi on 22 Dec 14
     
    I also agree with Alec, people are racist to those who look middle eastern, just because of the horrible terrorists out there. It doesn't even matter if they are Islam, let alone extremists.
  • Mr. Reidy on 29 Dec 14
     
    Nice thread of discussion. How are stereotypes formed?
cpeytonj

School attacked by Pakistani Taliban - 1 views

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shared by cpeytonj on 19 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • The people they came, they had no sense of humanity in them. They killed little children. Muslims would not do this."
  • Not satisfied with their slaughter in the auditorium, the Taliban attackers went upstairs to a computer lab. Pools of blood on the floor show how their young victims, many of them sons and daughters of army personnel from around Peshawar, were sprayed with bullets as they sat at each machine.
  • more than 140 of them, mostly children, who'd blithely left home for an ordinary day at school, never to come home.
  • cpeytonj on 19 Dec 14
     
    A Taliban group attacked a Pakistan school. Many children and teachers were killed. These groups were opposed because they had different views on education. What was the Taliban seeking to accomplish by this action and how did they justify it?
  • btjohns on 19 Dec 14
     
    I'm asking the same question and I struggle to understand how these actions will solve the Taliban's problems. I don't get how killing the people they disagree with is the resolution they fall upon. Even other Muslims disagree with their way of dealing with these things.
Mr. Reidy

Look Inside Pakistan School Reveals Horror, Devastation of Taliban Attack - ABC News - 1 views

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shared by Mr. Reidy on 17 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Seven Taliban gunmen stormed the Army public school with bombs strapped to their bodies Tuesday, officials said.
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