Had it been Pakistan’s ethos, the Taliban in Swat wouldn’t have needed to blast schools – people would have happily pulled their daughters from the schools themselves. Ordinary men and women in Swat believe in education, but the Taliban were terrorizing them out of exercising their legal and constitutional rights.
眼下，塔利班正在炸毁女校、鞭笞妇女。这些现象并不符合巴基斯坦的常态，如果巴基斯坦的风气原本如此，那就无需斯瓦特地区的塔利班势力动手将学校炸毁，民众自会乐于将他们在学校的女儿们领回家中；但斯瓦特地区的普通民众相信教育，只是在塔利班的威慑下，他们曾经放弃了行使这一符合法律与宪法的权利。