February 26, 2010 - Radical Islamists demonstrate yet again their intolerance of literate women....oops, I mean, their advocacy of women's rights.....by blowing up 16 schools in February. Militants opposed to co-education and advocates of sharia law have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest Pakistan in recent years. In North West Frontier Province, only 22 per cent of women and girls older than 15 are literate. Only seven per cent of women and girls older than 10 are literate in the semi-autonomous tribal areas, the United Nations has said. Click below for story.
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