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7/15/2006
6:33:38 pm EDT
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Afghan Clerics Call For New Religious Police
Author: CBC Source: CBC News (Canada)
Title: AFGHAN CLERICS CALL FOR NEW RELIGIOUS POLICE
A council of Islamic clerics is pressing the Afghan government to re-establish a religious police force to make sure Shariah law is obeyed.
The Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was disbanded after the toppling of the Taliban in 2001.
Previously, its officers patrolled the streets, punishing men for not sporting beards and women for not wearing the burqa, an all-concealing traditional robe with built-in mesh over the eyes.
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| Educate The People | Jul 17th. at 5:45:15 pm EDT
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Sleepycougar (Sierra Vista, Arizona) - Email Me
When will we learn that the only way to eliminate (or at least curb) terror and fundamentalism is to end poverty and educate the people.
Our opportunity to strike a lasting blow against terror in Afghanistan is slipping away.
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| IN MY OPINION.... | Jul 16th. at 9:04:32 pm EDT
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
"Religious Police" would NEVER float in the US.... there are too many gun owners (Myself included....) too many people that enjoy their freedom, AND too many women in positions of power for something like that to exsist. And even if they tried, I would dare to say that it wouldn't get a very good reception. There would be too many of us and too few of them. They would have protests in the street from coast to coast within a matter of days. But as others have said, we have to guard our freedom, or we might not have it....
Love & wisdom to all
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| The Stone Age Never Died. | Jul 16th. at 1:28:17 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
In order to rule with an iron fist, you must be able to "know" more than those you rule. Terrorists and invaders have always sought out the scientists, poets, the artists, the writers and any opposing priests to either control or eliminate them, because these people are not swayed by the rhetoric that is thrust upon the populace.
Schools are taken over or destroyed because children are more easily controlled-if they have no choices other than what is given to them by the existing authorities.
If a religious police are called in to exist- then nothing has been done- and those that have died- have died for nothing as the Taliban would be replaced by something else just as cruel and ridiculous. But that's always been the way of war isn't it?
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| ... | Jul 15th. at 10:54:43 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
Ahh, the good ol' "Religion Of Peace" is always good for a cheap laugh. Backwards laws, rampant racism, and pedophilia (hey, you don't think it's limited to that _other_ "Religion Of Peace," do you?) .
In all seriousness, this only proves that the Taliban wasn't expelled like the American Taliban says.
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| More Radical Fundamentalist Lunacy | Jul 15th. at 10:03:27 pm EDT
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Karl (Detroit Metro, Michigan) - Email Me
Radical fundamentalism of any stripe is a cancer on the face of humanity.
More on the plight of Afghani people under the lunatic Taliban, cited from: ( [Web LINK] )
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PORIAT, Afghanistan -- For 14-year-old Mohammed Salam, his tent school was about all this mud-brick farming village had going for it. That was until suspected Taliban militants burned it to the ground.
"Now we are taught underneath trees," the teenager said as he and other students took exams in a cluster of trees near the place their school stood before it was destroyed more than a month ago.
"They (the Taliban) want us illiterate so we have nothing else to do but pick up a gun," Mohammed said Monday.
The school in Poriat, a village 60 miles northeast of the capital, is like hundreds that a new Human Rights Watch report says have been attacked or forced to close in Afghanistan. The militant campaign targets state schools, particularly those for girls.
The report documents 204 attacks on schools, teachers and students since January 2005. Remnants of the toppled Taliban regime, other Islamic extremist groups and Afghan warlords are believed to be behind the campaign.
Zuhoor Afghan, the top adviser to Afghanistan's education minister, painted an even bleaker picture. He said militants had set fire to about 120 schools in the last four months and forced 200 more to close by threatening teachers and students. As a result, he said, more than 200,000 children were going without an education.
"Once they destroy a child's chance for education, there is nothing else for the young generation to do and it becomes very easy to encourage them to join their forces," Afghan said.
Motives abound for why militants would target schools. Insurgents claim educating girls is against Islam. They oppose government-funded schools for boys because they teach subjects besides religion. Targeting schools is also a tactic to shake the authority of the U.S.-backed government.
The spike in attacks on Afghan schools comes amid the most intense period in militant violence in Afghanistan since the Taliban regime was toppled for harboring Osama bin Laden following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Afghan said 40 students and teachers have been killed this year. An April 11 rocket attack on the Salabagh School in Asadabad, eastern Afghanistan, killed six pupils and wounded 14. Militants also beheaded a headmaster in the southern town of Qalat in January after he had refused to meet with their commander.
Sam Zarifi, a co-author of the Human Rights Watch report, said violence against Afghan schools dates to the 1979-89 Soviet occupation, when then Islamic fighters targeted schools as part of a similar ploy to spread instability aimed at ending the Russian presence.
"Attacks on schools, especially for girls, is a tried and proven insurgent tactic, but the pace and ferocity of the recent attacks has been unprecedented," Zarifi told The Associated Press.
Zarifi and education officials interviewed by the AP said most attacks are taking place in southern Afghanistan outside the relative peace of the capital Kabul, and are blamed on the Taliban. But other radical Islamic groups are believed to be behind many of the attacks and threats throughout eastern Afghanistan, where al-Qaida-linked militants are active.
"Our teachers and our students are being threatened with letters from the Taliban left at their schools, homes and mosques warning them not to go to school or they will be attacked," said Nabi Khushan, director of education in southern Zabul province.
The top United Nations official in Kabul, Tom Koenigs, deplored the school attacks and called on the government, local leaders and the international community to address the situation.
"One of the threats of the Taliban is to return to illiteracy and a lack of schools, particularly for girls," Koenigs told reporters at a news conference.
Koenigs recommended that every school burned must be replaced by either the international community or the government "as fast as possible."
In Poriat, Mohammed Salam and his friends study in the shade for as long as possible before the searing summer sun makes it impossible to work.
"It is very important that we get our school back, even if it is just another tent, as soon as possible," he said. "We need good teachers, good security and good lessons. I want to do something for my country in the future." [/QUOTE]
The sick, twisted, fanatical, and insane radical fundamentalist mullahs have more than outlined their strategy. They are implementing it. Keep the entire populace in abject ignorance (sound familiar?) and train up the young to be suicide bombers in their plans to bring the whole of Planet Earth under Sharia "law". Don't know what Sharia is? Read this: ( [Web LINK] )
I am including some pertinent links here. Every one needs to stay up-dated on these issues.
Planning a European vacation? Better read this:
( [Web LINK] )
Fanatical fundamentalist Islam at work:
( [Web LINK] )
And the big picture:
( [Web LINK] )
Don't go here if you've just eaten….
( [Web LINK] )
Watch-dog sites:
On radical fundamentalist Islam:
( [Web LINK] )
On the radical fundamentalist and equally insane American Xtian Taliban:
( [Web LINK] )
We need to stay active.
We need to stay informed.
If we aren't, we won't be staying free……
K
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