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http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/wait_and_see-2/ Championing Independent Journalism Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:51:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/wait_and_see-2/#comment-595 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:59:25 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=2842#comment-595 I really enjoyed this post.

]]> http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/wait_and_see-2/#comment-594 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:52:05 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=2842#comment-594 to young madrassa students and jobless villagers." So although international forces have been trying to end violent extremism in southern Afghanistan since the fall of 2001, local religious and political leaders who critically reject violent extremism continue to be systematically assassinated. This is very disheartening indeed. What can be done? ]]> “Hajji Mahmoud … is a member of the shura and helps write articles for their monthly magazine, Islami Diwa… By his count 24 members of the 150-strong Ulemaa Shura have been assassinated in Kandahar since 2001. Four of those were from 2009 alone… They are targeted because they offer a legitimate opposition to the radical mobilisations and motivations offered by ‘the Taliban’ to young madrassa students and jobless villagers.”
So although international forces have been trying to end violent extremism in southern Afghanistan since the fall of 2001, local religious and political leaders who critically reject violent extremism continue to be systematically assassinated.
This is very disheartening indeed. What can be done?

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