{"id":1312,"date":"2014-12-17T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2014-12-17T02:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T02:29:12","slug":"yet-another-taliban-atrocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2014\/12\/17\/yet-another-taliban-atrocity\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Taliban Atrocity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pakistan\"<\/a>“Taliban” translates quite literally as “students”, yet (as this latest atrocity confirms) the undeniably evil men who call themselves the Taliban are anything but seekers of knowledge.<\/p>\n

Murdering more than a hundred school kids in Pakistan? Really? “Their sole purpose, it seems, was to kill those innocent kids. That’s what they did,\u201d Major General Asim Bajwa said during a press conference.<\/p>\n

How can that action possibly be considered as following the true path of Islam? (For that matter, how can it be considered a a step toward seeking knowledge?)<\/p>\n

Pakistanis in southwest Asia (and elsewhere) need to rethink their stance vis-a-vis these Islamic terrorists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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