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WHO Says Afghan School "Poison Attacks" Probably Mass Hysteria
New submitter smugfunt writes "A number of incidents at schools in Afghanistan, especially girls' schools, have been attributed to poisoning by the Taliban. The World Health Organization has investigated 32 of them but found no poison. "Mass Psychological Illness is the most probable cause," they conclude, the Telegraph reports. The Taliban has consistently denied poisoning schools and have even consented to allow the education of girls in a deal with the government which allows significant Taliban control over the curriculum."
I tend to believe the group that doesn't behead innocent civilians, which also happens to be the one that doesn't strap bombs to themselves or the mentally handicapped to blow up in crowds.
Of course it's easy to sit on the other side and suggest that it's the other side that is wrong. After all, it was the other side that prevented women from going to school until the US invasion of Afghanistan. It is the US that regularly slaughters large groups of people, such as those traveling via bus, because they have received aid from the coalition forces.
Uh, no. My evidence is my brother with shrapnel in his face from an RPG that barely missed him, plus multiple concussions alongside his three tours overseas. But, you should probably keep reading whatever liberally slanted, terrorist-forgiving drivel that you call news.
I'm not saying that the Taliban has poisoned these school girls, nor am I saying that there are terrorist under every rock. I am saying that the Taliban is an evil organization filled with men that have no level of humanity left, and yet here we are debating whether or not we're pinning too much on an organization that has proven it has no limits to its disgusting behavior. Then again, as the article points out, here we are helping a nation that is going to allow the Taliban back with open arms the moment we leave, and possibly even sooner.
19,171 terrorist attacks since 9/11 really does make it mass terror. It's a religion of peace, and if you repeat it often enough, maybe they won't cut your throat on the way out and through while they're trying to do something nasty to everyone else. That though, doesn't mean I live in fear of it. More so, I point out exactly what it is. For those not keeping track, that would be the greatest death cult since the fall of the USSR. And their "unofficial pogom service."
By the by, hear the lastest news from the UK? A dozen or so muslims arrested in the last 3 odd days for planning terrorist attacks against the Olympics? Religion of Peace, strikes again. Well you guys had that guy down in Fort Hood, despite what the media tells you, he was a full blown Jihadi. Then there was the case in Dearborn last weekend of "sudden Jihad syndrome" where a muslim tried to rundown 9 Christians protesting a muslim fair thing. He's been charged with attempted murder. It's not a case of "the population is scared" that they'll tolerate it. That's the government and security theater, rather if terrorists tried it on a plane again. There wouldn't be anything left of them by the time the plane landed, except orange goo. I'll lay $100 on it.
But people in Afghanistan have a good reason to be scared. The Taliban are well known for being brutal, executing people in soccer stadiums, beating women for being without minders, cutting off the hands of women for talking to a man. Executing children for talking to the opposite sex, executing men for not having a beard of the proper length. On, and on, and on.
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