Re: Malala’s father Ziauddin Yusufzai named special UN advisor on education!
These people have made it pretty clear what they think of “mainstream” Islam. Furthermore, they are just people who have taken up arms. The laws of that land, the right to educate women, should be up to the government of Pakistan to decide, not men with AK-47s. Unless you think the media is lying about every Taliban attack, I think it’s pretty easy to understand what they stand for.
We have to deal with them yes, and part of that involves negotiation, but let’s not pretend that we’re dealing with a legitimate government. That’s the main issue here. We’re dealing with terrorists, who do not care for religious logic. Their sympathizers would stop sheltering them if our own government actually cared to deal with the problem. We shouldn’t be turning to America, nor should we be honouring the Taliban, we should be putting pressure on our politicians to deal with this problem.