10-20-2012, 12:01 AM
This:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/world/asia...topstories
They shot a girl in the head. Even plenty of criminal syndicates will avoid that if they fear it will turn the public against them (especially in cases where the syndicates are seen as a lesser evil to the government & police which is often the case in ethnic neighborhoods). A key component of most hate propaganda is to show how the enemies threaten the children (while downplaying their own threat to children). So to me I'd think it's clear they don't give a damn what people think (after all, they're proud to have religion to tell them how to be moral, not a godless, secular society that values girls as human beings).
More to the point I thought the point of terrorism (or terror tactics like this anyway) was to win through fear, not popularity (the old, "It's better to be feared than to be loved"). That is, great condemnation means not only revulsion but also fear of sending their own beloved girls to school or allowing them to act out as their victim did. So as long as there's fear along with the revulsion (and the revulsion makes the story spread, and with it the fear that they use) then shouldn't it be a GOOD thing from their perspective? :confused:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/world/asia...topstories
Quote:The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the act, but they didn't appear to have anticipated the level of revulsion and condemnation that it would provoke. Thousands of people joined in rallies across Pakistan in support of the wounded teen, and calls grew for a strong response from the government.
As coverage of the shooting -- and the appalled reaction to it -- swept across the Pakistani and international news media, the Taliban began issuing lengthy statements trying to justify the targeting of Malala, who had defied them by insisting on the right of girls to go to school.
Quote:Reporters in northwestern Pakistan, the region where the Taliban are active, say they have been alerted by authorities of an increased risk to their security and some of them have received warnings that they are being specifically targeted.
"Things after Malala have become more tense, as the Taliban is very angry with the way the attack was reported," said a veteran journalist in Peshawar, the main city in the restive northwestern region near the border with Afghanistan. "We are scared, but what can we do? We have to work."
They shot a girl in the head. Even plenty of criminal syndicates will avoid that if they fear it will turn the public against them (especially in cases where the syndicates are seen as a lesser evil to the government & police which is often the case in ethnic neighborhoods). A key component of most hate propaganda is to show how the enemies threaten the children (while downplaying their own threat to children). So to me I'd think it's clear they don't give a damn what people think (after all, they're proud to have religion to tell them how to be moral, not a godless, secular society that values girls as human beings).
More to the point I thought the point of terrorism (or terror tactics like this anyway) was to win through fear, not popularity (the old, "It's better to be feared than to be loved"). That is, great condemnation means not only revulsion but also fear of sending their own beloved girls to school or allowing them to act out as their victim did. So as long as there's fear along with the revulsion (and the revulsion makes the story spread, and with it the fear that they use) then shouldn't it be a GOOD thing from their perspective? :confused:
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