Todd Starnes had this to say about the Romeike family’s possible deportation. Check the comments for a common theme: If they’d come in illegally would they still be at risk of deportation?
Meanwhile over at the NY Times, there is this piece about the rights of girls to get an education in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and several African countries. I don’t hear anyone clamoring to take in all these families who want their girls to get a basic education. Yet they are in very real danger:
Within the past two weeks alone, a 41-year-old teacher was gunned down 200 meters from her all-girls school near the Pakistan-Afghan border; two classrooms in an all-girls school in the north of Pakistan were blown up; and at an awards ceremony in the heart of Karachi, a principal was shot to death and another teacher and four pupils were wounded after grenades were hurled into a school that specialized in enrolling girls.
It was perhaps no coincidence that the Karachi teachers had been visited last year by Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old who was shot in October simply because she wanted girls to go to school and is now a global symbol for the right of girls to education.
In the last two years hundreds of schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan have been firebombed and closed down by religious fundamentalists determined to stop the march of girls’ education.
Is there enough compassion to go around? Is there really anything that can be done to help the children who risk their lives to get some basic knowledge? Does their plight compare at all with that of the Romeike family?
So many questions.
More on the Romeike Family and Education Rights Across the World is a post from: Learning at Home
