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AP: Afghan teacher killed after speech condemning suicide bombings [LINK-ZUM]

A teacher was shot to death in northern Afghanistan after he gave a speech condemning suicide bombings, officials said Wednesday. Abdul Hadi criticized such attacks as un-Islamic and un-Afghan during a speech Tuesday in the Archi district of Kunduz province, said Khair Mohammad Subat [...] Hadi spoke at a gathering of about 700 people, including the Kunduz governor and was on his way home when he was killed [...] 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.

[Article continues at link. Exactly where are the tens of thousands of Muslims marching in the streets to demand that such atrocities end, and that they are not carried out in their name? Perhaps they are busy instead protesting editorial cartoons. But setting little girls on fire for going to school, shooting a man dead because he said in public that killing people was wrong... we have to celebrate the diversity of those murderers by not talking about it (much less doing more than talk), right? I predict that the silence will be deafening from most Muslims. Is Islam capable of reform? Not if they keep killing the reformers and the children. - Trevor Blake]

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