teaching grrrls is a crime punishable by DEATH

to them (see my posts on the former taliban member now a student at yale on my connecticut blog the nutmeg grater to understand why i have issues with taliban members present OR past)

Lessons of life and death
Afghan schools under siege as Taliban maintain grip
By Declan Walsh, Globe Correspondent March 16, 2006
SARKH DOZ, Afghanistan -- Remnants of the ousted Taliban regime have launched a campaign of arson, intimidation, and assassination targeting schools and teachers in southern Afghanistan, forcing some 200 schools to close in recent months, local officials say.
Five teachers have been killed, said Hayat Allah Rafiqi, head of the education department in Helmand province. Hundreds more teachers have received ''night letters" -- threatening notices nailed to their houses under darkness, warning them to quit teaching or die.
''Our teachers are helpless because security is so weak," Rafiqi said. ''By day the government rules, but by night it is the hand of the Taliban."
The attacks, which President Hamid Karzai estimated have idled 100,000 students in the south, have undermined attempts by the government to revive the country's educational system and teach both boys and girls -- a key to Afghanistan's recovery from decades of war. Girls were barred from attending school when the fundamentalist Islamic regime ruled the country in the 1990s.
While schools in Kandahar and Zabol provinces also have been targeted, Helmand has been particularly hard hit. Sixty-six of Helmand's 224 schools -- many of them built or repaired with American aid -- have closed, and others have reduced classes as parents move pupils to the safety of the main towns. Even there, protection is uncertain.
In one of the Helmand attacks, assassins dragged a teacher from his classroom in the village of Nad Ali and shot him at the school gate. His crime: teaching girls...........