Another faith-based initiative

This from the Times Online:

SAIMA KHAN wants to die a martyr. Life is transient, she told her father in a telephone call last week, and the real glory is to sacrifice it for Allah. Her statement would be alarming at any age, but Saima is only 10.

As she spoke, rifle shots rang out, the acrid smell of tear gas drifted over Islamabad and hundreds of troops surrounded the pro-Taliban Red Mosque, a religious school complex in the heart of Pakistan's capital where Saima was among hundreds of children being held as virtual hostages in a stand-off between militants and the government.

Read it and weep.

posted by Dennis on 07.09.07 at 07:52 AM





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These people (no racist undertones meant) have NO sense of economic efficiency.

I mean, 10 years old? The parents pump resources into you for 10 years, and she throws it down the drain to martyr herself with a 12-ounce suicide vest.

Even at 20 or 30 years old, that's fewer productive years than dependency years - especially if the productive years are spent rote-memorizing holy verses and repeating them to newer students.

Investing money into continually sinking costs is not sound economic strategy. The proper way to go about suicide-attack martyrdom would be to grow up, get a job, contribute to the economy, raise a family, save up for their future, and when retirement approaches... THEN go and blow up. This also avoids the financial black hole of welfare and health support. Soylent Green for the caliphated masses.

Not to mention the lack of any economically-contributary skills learned at the madrassah. The Times maagzine article quoted a madrassa young lady as saying, "Medical schools train doctors and the govt lets them do their job. Why don't they allow us who are trained at madrassas do what we are taught to? (i.e. promote Islam in society)

I reckon it's because society can only support so many protelysers and prostitute-stoners who do not create any GNP. It's probable the madrassa students are lashing out in frustrated anger at their own bleak futures.

Scott   ·  July 9, 2007 09:31 PM

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