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Terror's Children
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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I wanted them to understand the plight of the ordinary Afghan and feel compelled to help him/her in some way,...
After September 11th I realized that people in the West really had no concept about life in Pakistan or in Afghanistan. I wanted people to see beyond the rhetoric of war, so I wrote a story for a newspaper I was freelancing for about Afghan refugee children.
In Pakistan, there is no viable state education, poverty forces millions of people to send their children to Islamic religious schools, which do not inculcate critical thinking and encourage their students to develop a disdain for Western life and ideals.
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