(November 12, 2013 at 10:05 am)Zazzy Wrote: I wonder if shooting little girls in the face for going to school has a bigger immediate effect of scaring others into obedience, or of creating more dissident girls?
You can keep people cowed for a pretty long time if you shoot them when they try to get an education. I just don't know if enough will get educated enough, and have enough support, to change things soon. Malala has some pretty rocking parents- I don't expect many girls in fundamentalist Islamic cultures have parents that open-minded, or that willing to fight.
But on the other hand, there are plenty of progressive Muslims.
Not enough. A bigger population of progressive Muslims in the west, but not in the east. Although there are cracks growing in the east.
