The Pakistani Taliban's War on Schoolchildren -- Time MagazineEvery morning, Sarim Zaidi, 17, puts on his school uniform, straightens his tie and hops into the car his parents provide for him to go to the Imperial International School and College in Islamabad, an upscale private institution. After his driver drops him off, he goes through metal detectors, winds his way around barbed wire, glances nervously at the armed guard on the roof and flashes his ID badge before finally entering a classroom.
Across town, in a poorer section of Islamabad, Hamza Baig, 14, also smartens up his school uniform, but at the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation Boys College, a government school, there are no armed guards. There is only a lonely doorman behind a flimsily padlocked gate. He is armed with a stick.
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My Comment: The most effective weapon that the West has against Islamic extremism, communism, military dictatorships, religious theocracies, etc. .... is our technology, the better aspects of our culture, and our spirit to learn and to improve ourselves. The force that combines all of these aspects together is our educational system .... and our willingness to share this knowledge with the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, the enemy knows this .... hence .... it is the schools that become one of the many front lines in this conflict.
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