Taleban terrorists torched three schools in Kandehar, adding another attack on educating the people of Afghanistan to the list.

1,000 boys and girls studied at these newly built schools, but they were gutted last week, said provincial education chief Mohammad Qasim.

“I can say that the Taleban were behind this,” Qasim said, adding that no one was hurt in the attacks.

But this should serve as no surprise, since the Taleban banned girls from school during their rule, children were forbidden to even fly kites in the street.

Taleban terrorists seem particularly interested in terrorizing teachers–as a Taleban gunmen dragged a teacher from his classroom and shot him at the gates of his school in December after he’d ignored warnings to stop teaching boys and girls, and also in December, gunmen shot and killed an 18-year-old male student and a guard at another school in Helmand. The gunmen opened fire on teachers and said they would be killed unless the schools were shut down, police said.

In Zabul province, also in the south, a teacher was dragged from his home and beheaded, also in December.

The Taleban is determined to reinstate their policy of no education in order to keep the people poor. We take so much for granted here in the United States–each day I see hoards of children waiting for the bus in order to go to school, and most people here in the US are literate. Not so in Afghanistan, thanks to the Taliban. In the North, these things aren’t happening–only in the Pashtun/Taleban controlled South, where Karzai comes from.

Afghans who travel to the United States are simply enthralled and amazed when they see things like scanning machines in grocery stores that read the bar codes–to them, it seems like magic.