Afghan schoolgirls

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/201042663711279658.html

No, I don't know for sure what happened but why wouldn't it surprise me if certain people were trying to stop girls getting an education, to stop women from climbing out from beneath their male 'protectors' and claiming something resembling equality? IF, and it's a big if, though it's not the first instance of poisoning happening to girls in school in Afghanistan, that is what happening then it seems to me that someone (using the term loosely) is running scared, afraid of the idea of women gaining control of their own lives and destinies. Seems like IF it is the case them someone is tying to keep women in their place.

"Attacks on girls schools have increased in the past year, particularly in the east and south of the country. Last year a group of schoolgirls in Kandahar had acid thrown in their faces by men who objected to them attending school. "
http://www.welt.de/english-news/article3717796/Afghan-girls-poisoned-at-school.html


http://www.rferl.org/content/Illnesses_At_Afghan_Girls_Schools_Prompt_Poisoning_Fears/2024984.html

This was a year ago.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE54A1IR20090512

given what they go through to go to school, and that as recently as 2001 it was forbidden, one has to wonder. And, those of us who took going to school and getting an education as an often dull and annoying right, have to consider ourselves lucky to have been able to do so and be bored with it.

This is the same climate that allowed this to happen
http://purplerahk.blogspot.com/2007/11/english-can-get-you-killed.html
and in all cases, no-one was doing anything other than trying to get an education and improve the lives of themselves, their families and those around them. Something most of us would consider a worthy goal.