polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 2
nd, 2019 at 3:26pm:
freediver wrote on Sep 2
nd, 2019 at 3:10pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 2
nd, 2019 at 3:04pm:
funny, I still can't see any mention of under 8s and their punishment for reading non-Quranic material. Golly gosh, I can't even find a single reference to under 8s.
Wherever did you get the idea they were shot in the back of the head for reading non-Quranic material FD?
I have asked you several times what exactly your pedantry is based on. All you responded with was denying that I quoted what I quoted.
FD I respond by pointing out there is no basis to your claims, and that the only reference you have is a completely irrelevant quote about what the taliban were up to after the period in question.
Hows this for pedantry:
Quote:The Taliban presented every girl over 8 in the regions they controlled with the death penalty for learning to read, and girls under 8 with the death penalty for learning to read anything other than the Quran. It was not an isolated incident, it was an actively enforced policy.
Do you agree there is literally no mention of girls under 8 anywhere in the two articles you cited - let alone what they were shot for?
What possible grasping could you do to claim this is somehow substantiated? Surely you would have to admit its a little difficult when neither article even say anything about under 8s no?
Not sure where the original article is that I got that from, but it went into detail about the rules and the punishments. I just googled this:
https://thediplomat.com/2016/11/the-schools-of-the-taliban/
Quote:During Taliban rule in 1990s, secular education was banned and replaced by religious education. Girls were not allowed to go to school. Today, much of the same can be witnessed in schools that are under Taliban control.
The teachers, students, and residents who were interviewed in these areas in Kunduz confirmed that the Taliban have replaced English, culture, history, and physical education classes with Islamic subjects. Boys are also not allowed to wear Western clothes.
In some areas, the Taliban have barred girls from going to school. In other districts, girls only have access to education up to a certain age. In Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz, for example, girls above the age of eight are not allowed to study.