It strikes me as odd that, while the world is rightly up in arms over a group of religious bigots kidnapping two hundred girls because they oppose their education, people are being denied an education here in the uk due to their disability. I am sill furious about what happened to nadia this week. Granted, linking the two stories might be overegging the pudding slightly, but in both cases people are being denied the chance to forfill their potential by oppressive, ideologically driven forces. Why should one gain our attention and not the other? I’d argue that what happened to my comrade this week is, in it’s own way, no less perverse and no less sad than what has happened in Nigeria; I know the to cases are very different, but I’m just drawing your attention to this quite sad parallel.