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A teacher was shot to death in northern Afghanistan after he gave a speech condemning suicide bombings, it was revealed today.

Abdul Hadi claimed the attacks were un-Islamic and un-Afghan during a speech yesterday in the Archi district of Kunduz province.

He spoke at a gathering of about 700 people, including the Kunduz governor, and was on his way home when he was killed, Khair Mohammad Subat said

Kunduz police chief General Mohammad Ayub Salangi said police were investigating and that no arrests have been made so far.

In January, Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks spiked in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia.

According to UNICEF, there were 236 school-related attacks last year.

In central Logar province, meanwhile, education department director Kamaluddin Zadran said three girls schools have been set ablaze in the past three weeks.

Girls were barred from schools under the Taliban regime.

After the Taliban fell in 2001, girls were allowed to return to attend, but many conservative and uneducated Afghans still forbid their girls from going.

Arsonists regularly attack girls schools. Last year, gunmen killed two students walking outside a girls school in Logar.

Education Ministry statistics indicate only 35 per cent of students enrolled are girls.
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36 responses // Teacher shot dead after condemning suicide bombings as un-Islamic

  • We came pretty close to doing that over here. I can remember the wild eyed, frothing aggression that was sparked whenever some one disagreed with our post 9/11 actions or questioned the details of the incident.
    Analogue4Digital
  • this is very sad. My arabic professor was an Iraqi who fled his country in 1990. He now lives in Spain and speaks openly about how un-islamic the terrorists are.

    It seems that part of the world is, like ours, full of zealots and uneducated people trying to strike down free speech.
    stephenthomson
  • Ya, he was shot by Blackwater at the request of Busheney in a desperate attempt to give credibility to the "terrorist" theory.
    VoyagerFilms
  • Why the knee-jerk guilt-ridden comparisons with the US in the responses? There is hardly a comparison. As much as I hate Bush and the war in Iraq, I haven't taken leave of my senses nor logical reasoning to suddenly think what's bad in Afghanistan is instantly comparable to the situation in the US.

    Despite the flag-waving patriotism in the wake of 911, no one got shot for disaggreeing. Big Difference.

    This man was shot and killed by misogynistic cowards for daring to utter the truth that suicide bombing is an affront to Islam - something which some brave immans in more rational areas have said before.

    If the US were like this Stephen Colbert would have been shot dead after his brilliant White House Correspondent speech two years ago.

    Condemn Bush for his failures and lies but don't let others off the hook so lightly because they aren't as popular to criticize.
    SamuraiDave
  • It's important for Americans to reach out and support the voices of such heroes. Even this very act of blogging this story shows that solidarity gives meaning to the message.
    renbyrd
  • A worthy protest, but not the smartest if he had long term personal goals.
    Purdey
  • It doesn't seem like there is any progress in Afghanistan
    Nawid
  • long live the religion of peace...
    Liberal_Extinction
  • god bless that mans soul, and thank god for freedom of speech.
    franklinpeanut
  • The alleged 9/11 terrorists, half of whom are still ALIVE, were Saudi nationals. It's always been my contention that the Saudi nationals who were not actually complicit in this ruse were all victims of CIA identity theft. This had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, Iraq, or Iran. It was all about OPEC and $4 a gallon gasoline. That mission was what Prince Bandar set out to accomplish, using our own little pinheaded tool against the Nation ever which he was appointed President by the clowns in the SCOTUS in 2000.
    96thdayofrage
  • Well my immediate thought is that right here we have evidence that we pulled out of Afghanistan too soon.

    And no, I don't want to hear any crap about how we still have troops in Afghanistan. The amount of troops we have occupying Afghanistan are pathetically low.
    Varex_Sythe
  • That teacher was right though. Islam is a much more peaceful religion than the media usually makes it out to be. The Taliban are just one extremist sect...Still, it's important to remember that they do not represent all Islamic beliefs, or culture.
    MissJonaLyn
  • You seriously couldn't find a better picture to represent this article?

    Some people (myself included) , would rather not have to see these images used OVER AND OVER AND OVER again to represent ANything and Everything related to 9/11 .
    chillwillNJ
  • Religon is the most deadly thing in the world right now.
    dmass5
  • MUST you have subjected us to this picture???
    shelchak
  • dmass5,
    I would disagree with religion being the most deadly thing in the world on the point of a technicality. I think that religious extremists of any kind are the most deadly thing in the world.
    Varex_Sythe
  • dmass5, Mosquitoes are the deadliest thing on earth--not counting death itself. No comparison.

    Well, they really showed the teacher how wrong he was, didn't they? Hopefully this will spark a change for the better.
    AceHardchester
  • Wow, sore subject around here when liberals get reminded that there IS an enemy out there willing to attack the US CIVILIAN population on US soil. Very telling indeed, what's wrong afraid that old patriotic feeling of wanting to kill those responsible might come sneaking back up on you like it did on Sept. 12th?

    Why is it a bad idea to keep issues like racism alive, well, and in everyone's face when on the other hand it's better to bury and forget about atrocities like 9-11?
    Liberal_Extinction
  • We're mesmerized by his courageous act and saddened assassination yet what about the thousands of innocent civilians in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. Wheres their story?..oh yeah, we live in the elective dictatorship of America.
    Miss3d

  • Who said anything about it being a 'Liberal' thing?

    You sound like a Giuliani republican who's only words are a 'Noun, a verb, and a reference to 9/11'.

    I don't need a picture to remind me of what i saw with my OWN eyes. + I'm gonna take a guess and say, that nobody else does either.
    chillwillNJ
  • SamuraiDave: "Despite the flag-waving patriotism in the wake of 911, no one got shot for disaggreeing. Big Difference"

    Reality: people of Middle-Eastern, Asian, and/or Indian descent were routinely assulted, occasionally battered, and in a few cases shot *just for looking like they might be Arabic*. I personally recall seeing a family from India in the supermarket with thei children at around midnight one night vecause they were afraid to shop during the day, and afraid to leave their children home alone, and afraid to be apart from each other for fear something would happen to one of them and the other not know it. Why? Because a Pakistani gas station owner had been shot by some angry white people. He didn't think going to war was the right response to the attacks.

    It may not have happened in your neighborhood, but it certainly isn't true that *nobody* was shot for disagreeing.
    adalger
  • true that
    muckraker
  • Read the Koran, Bible, Torah, dictionary before commenting please.

    I happen to have a Muslim next to me, and according to his education and his actual reading from the Koran, it is "un-Islamic."

    Don't you just love it when that happens? How convenient.
    kramericus
  • Well at least this is almost a story of hope. This means that people who know fear can still stand up for things they believe in. Maybe there is hope for this species after all.
    Mr_Rson
  • Anyone calling it murder will be killed.
    Harsh lesson.

    huntre
  • just maybe. Hope
    muckraker
  • Extremist Religion what's it good for?
    current89
  • so , did he die a martyr ?
    malathion
  • http://current.com/items/88959744_freedom_walkers_2008_...
    Not good. So many nations after what lies there yet no benefit in sight for women or a kid's odds; my opinion.
    ~
    Freedom Walkers URL: Position of an atheist woman in America; shedding light on past and present lives of people educating for better.
    macosveteran
  • aldager, and my personal experience was people leaving flowers at mosques in the wake of 911 to show muslim americans that there was no animosity towards them or their religion.

    Trying to compare your experience to the reality of what is going on in such Islamic fundamentalistic areas under such groups as the Taliban is a case of apples and oranges or rather apples and handgrenades. They are hardly comparable in the same sense.
    SamuraiDave
  • Really, other than what the lying media has claimed, there is no proof he was killed by an extremist. It could easily have been Blackwater or some other murderer for profit.

    We don't really know if he said those things and we really don't know if he was killed for that reason.

    Question EVERYTHING or you will talk yourself into believing lies - you will be manipulated - you will be deceived by Ripusioffican's and enabling Democrats!

    Vote for Obama - and NOT for mccain and his boyfriend.
    VoyagerFilms
  • I'm sorry Liberal_Extinction, I fail to see your point.

    Maybe we liberals are sore about the subject because the conservative leaders (bless their corrupt little hearts) used fear tactics to scare the congress members and civilians into more or less leaving a country with a severely beaten but still living threat so we could go occupy a nation that was no goddamn threat what so ever.

    Yeah, I'm really sore that instead of finishing up the job Afghanistan we left a minimal military force and went into Iraq saying, "We kicked Bin Laden's ass, he won't dare try to come after us again." But, holy shit, what's this? Not only is he still alive and making videos threatening further violence, but the extremists who we left in Afghanistan are starting to murder people who publicly disagree with their tactics. But hey, at least we're in Iraq where the oil is and where the weapons of mass destruction were... until we investigated and found nothing... which I guess means they weren't there in the first place.
    Varex_Sythe
  • 9/11 or 911! A police state or a police world!
    keeesha
  • *everybody say stop
    hey whats that sound
    everybody looks whats
    goin down
    dreamsenvoy
  • 9/11 was an inside job.
    undephined
  • inside job or not, that has little to do with the fact that man was gunned down cowardly for daring to speak his mind about suicide bombing.

    Even if the US were to pull up all stakes and isolate itself from the world, these types of activities would continue in such countries.
    SamuraiDave
  • it's too bad we all cant have freedom of speech
    starlightblue