Girls' Schools Attacked With Poison Again In Afghanistan

The Taliban, those enforcers of ignorance, have once again attacked innocent young school girls because, of course, education for females is un-Islamic. At least in their own twisted, little, ignorant minds. It seems that they have been ramping up their efforts recently to harm these female students by poisoning their classrooms. Of course, it behooves them to intimidate the girls through fear because they hope they will stop seeking an education. With an education they're less controllable, and that's all they care about. Controlling and oppressing their women.

afghan schools1 pRYWe 16105

Tuesday in Afghanistan saw two more attacks, one in Kabul and one in Kunduz, with dozens hospitalized, including a teacher.

Thirty schoolgirls in the northern city of Kunduz and six in Kabul were admitted to hospital, health officials and the interior ministry said.

"Others are also coming in. We don't know the exact number of girls affected, it could be many. It's a similar incident to what happened in Kabul and Kunduz last week," said Homayun Khamosh, head of the Kunduz city hospital where girls were admitted

One of the girls taken ill in Kunduz said she saw a man in black clothes, with his mouth and nose wrapped in a cloth, throw a bottle near the school. The bottle appeared to release a smelly fume, the girl who said her name was Farzana told Reuters.

Education was totally banned for females in Afghanistan when the Taliban took control from 1996 through 2001, and is still not available to girls in certain rural Taliban-influenced regions of the country. It's there where girls have been attacked with acid, another form of intimidation, and teachers have also been threatened. Of course you don't have much of an education without teachers, so what better way to prevent girls from learning then by targeting the people who educate them.

And it seems there has been a marked increase in attacks on female schools and school girls since 2009, with chemical gases. And no-one seems to know what the gas consists of; all they know is that it isn't fatal.

In most cases the girls reported smelling something sweet, then fainting, dizziness and vomiting. The attacks are the latest in a string of incidents at girls' schools involving an airborne substance which officials say could be poisonous gas. Blood tests taken from girls affected by previous attacks have not yet yielded any results.

As for the attacks on Tuesday,

An interior ministry spokesman said he had no information on the Kunduz attack but confirmed that half a dozen schoolgirls and one teacher from a school in Kabul's fourth precinct were taken to a nearby clinic after smelling a gas and falling ill.

"It's not clear what was the cause of the poisoning, whether it's a destructive action or a kind of gas used for something else but we will check whether this is an action of the enemies or food poisoning," Zemarai Bashary said.

A Reuters reporter outside the Kabul school said several police officers and police cars had surrounded the area. One schoolgirl, a 15-year old called Samira, was on gate duty shortly before her classmates were taken ill.

"I smelled something very sweet and when I went and told my teachers about it they said it was not a big incident but later on I saw girls falling down and collapsing and vomiting so we called the police," she said.

Samira said she saw three men standing outside the school shortly before smelling the gas..

Interestingly enough, the Taliban have denied they were behind the attack, but who else would want young girls not to be educated? But police claim they have no idea who the perpetrators are and there are no suspects. All they know is that there have been a slew of poison attacks and more than likely they will continue. This is why it's so important to make sure that the Taliban are wiped out in that region.