For which sin has she been killed?

SWAT is the name some people in management might associate with the Swift Worksite Assessment & Translation evaluation method. However, not many people probably have heard of the name SWAT Valley. It lies in the troubled nothwest region of Pakistan and has come under strong Taliban influence. Parents in the SWAT Valley have been warned by the Taliban not to send their daughters to school or otherwise they would kill any girl that goes to school as well as blowing up the whole school. It is said that the threat was broadcasted by an illegally run radio station in the region and announced by a Taliban commander. Not only does this sad development show that the Taliban are back, or more probably that they have never left anyway, but that outside forces have little control and power in this matter. No one can bring democracy to such a country. It is the people who have to change their own society, but this is a very slow process. Knowledge and the courage to question old customs are certainly important in this process.

If the Taliban claim that they want to implement strict Islamic rules then we should ask them the same question written in the Holy Quran, which they say they are protecting, for in Verse 81 we can read ... and when the female child that was buried alive is made to ask (8) for what crime she had been killed (9) and when the pages (of men's deeds) are unfolded (10) ... [Then] each soul shall know what it has put forward (14). I somehow doubt that the Taliban are really aware of what they are putting forward for their own souls by killing school girls.