pakistan“Taliban” translates quite literally as “students”, yet (as this latest atrocity confirms) the undeniably evil men who call themselves the Taliban are anything but seekers of knowledge.

Murdering more than a hundred school kids in Pakistan? Really? “Their sole purpose, it seems, was to kill those innocent kids. That’s what they did,” Major General Asim Bajwa said during a press conference.

How can that action possibly be considered as following the true path of Islam? (For that matter, how can it be considered a a step toward seeking knowledge?)

Pakistanis in southwest Asia (and elsewhere) need to rethink their stance vis-a-vis these Islamic terrorists.

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