We learned the other day of the awful acts of the Taliban once again in killing health workers who were merely trying to vaccinate little children in Afghanistan.
The toll is now up to 9 persons killed for doing their jobs.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has suspended the vaccination program and denounced the killings.
But what we don't always hear -- the news can get drowned out -- is that Pakistani clerics are denouncing this outrageous act by the Taliban, which is supposed to have some kind of religious basis (but is more about security insanity gone among, as the Taliban believes the CIA is using health workers to spy on them, due to the fact that the CIA allegedly obtained a doctor's cooperation in hunting bin Ladn.)
So here's what some Pakistani clerics are doing to respond:
An alliance of Pakistani clerics will hold demonstrations across the country against the killings of polio eradication campaign workers, leaders said on Thursday, as the death toll from attacks this week rose to nine.
Tahir Ashrafi, who heads the moderate Pakistan Ulema Council, said that 24,000 mosques associated with his organization would preach against the killings of health workers during Friday prayers.
"Neither Pakistani customs nor Islam would allow or endorse this. Far from doing something wrong, these girls are martyrs for Islam because they were doing a service to humanity and Islam," he said.
