(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.
I think the sort of act like shooting Malala has short term effect of emboldening would be oppressors by opening the eyes of many to the new territory for oppression. But in the long run it hollows out a religion by introducing widespread doubt about the fundamental legitamacy of that religion as a net force for desirable social change.
