Why kill children? I know the Taliban wanted revenge and they believe they’re fighting a holy war. What god might they be following who would approve of going room-to-room in a school to kill children of senior military officials and any other students who got in the way? Certainly not the peace-loving Allah! What did the youngsters, aged 6-18, do “wrong,” except be born into military families? If the bombers and gunmen made their “point,” why continue to endanger others by taking hostages and planting explosives around the perimeter of the school? Yes, those IEDs did prevent outside help from Pakistani police and soldiers from coming to the rescue of the children; but how many more people will stumble on them and be killed? That must be their plan.
What kind of people are these killers of more than a hundred innocents? And how do we revoke their membership in the human race?