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High ResolutionThis says all that needs to be said
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High ResolutionThis would also be acurate with a mob of evangelical Christian home-schoolers.
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14-year-old peace activist shot in Pakistan
BBC News: A 14-year-old rights activist who has campaigned for girls’ education has been shot and injured in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai was attacked on her way home from school in Mingora, the region’s main town.
Nominated for an international peace award, she came to public attention in 2009 by writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban.
Photo: Malala Yousafzai pictured on March 26, 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images)
(via stfueverything)
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Karzai Calls for Arrest of Taliban in Public Execution
A video of a woman being publicly executed, supposedly for adultery, sparked outrage in Afghanistan—and now President Hamid Karzai has ordered the arrest of the Taliban involved. Officials actually believe the woman was killed—shot nine times as a throng of people cheered—because two Taliban commanders both had a relationship with her and ended up fighting over her; the adultery charge, they believe, was simply an attempt by the Taliban to safe face.
The two commanders “faked a court to decide the fate of this woman and in one hour, they executed the woman,” a provincial governor tells CNN. But both commanders were then killed by a third commander, he claims. Karzai ordered today that everyone involved be arrested and punished, and the commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan has offered the help of NATO troops. The video has sparked concern over the 2014 NATO withdrawal and the consequences it has on women in the country.
The above link also includes a CNN video related to the story where it mentions that dozens of men sit on a hillside nearby watching it all happen and chanting “God is great”. It is unfortunate to say but these stories will likely not stop anytime in the near future as troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
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Taliban shoot woman 9 times in public execution as men cheer
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — A shot rings out, but the burqa-clad woman sitting on the rocky ground does not respond.
The man pointing a rifle at her from a few feet away lets loose another round, but still there is no reaction.
He fires a third shot, and finally the woman slumps backwards.
But the man fires another shot.
And another. And another.
Nine shots in all.
Around him, dozens of men on a hillside cheer: “God is great!”
God is not great.
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Religious police demand to know “who taught you to read this?”
(Source: ummagumma-)
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Soldiers seem to be a bit peeved at Joe Biden for his comments in this week’s issue stating the Taliban aren’t our enemy in Afghanistan.
Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens U.S. interests. If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us.
But are they actually our enemy? We originally went to Afghanistan in search of the terrorists behind 9/11. Now, Al Qaeda’s mostly moved on to other countries. But the Taliban, many argue, are just as guilty for harboring the terrorists in the first place—not to mention their continuing to kill American troops. What do you guys think?
[h/t BuzzFeed, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus]
It depends on what one means by “enemy” and in this case, Joe Biden is right. Sure, the Taliban’s ideology may be contrary to U.S. “values” but are they a force we need to be actively fighting in Afghanistan over? No. What are we doing to do, kill every last Taliban member? Continued Western presence in the Middle East is “radicalizing” people who don’t want us there. The UN coalition troops stationed in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War helped fuel the “radicalism” that brought down the Trade Centers. If you look at the Taliban numbers, they decreased after the initial invasion of Afghanistan because we were killing them but they’re nearly back up to their original numbers. Why is that? Because we’re occupying the Middle East! Are we supposed to stay forever to prevent the Taliban from ever taking power over Afghanistan again? No. We need to get out. We “lost” these ridiculous “wars on terror” and we need to end them because they’re counterproductive. As long as we’re in Afghanistan and occupying the Middle East, “radicalization” will grow.
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"After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only to be rejected by President Bush."
- That time in 2001 when Bush refused a Taliban offer to turn over bin Laden. (Hat tip to Climate Adaptation)(Source: thepoliticalnotebook, via ikenbot)
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In the 1980s, we were funding the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. The Taliban and Osama Bin Laden have had the same values since the 1980s. They were our friends. They were our allies.
Before throwing a party about Osama Bin Laden’s death, please consider how this terrorist group went from our best friend to our most hated enemy.
(And don’t just say 9/11, because that isn’t even the tip of the iceberg.)
You mean Reagan wasn’t perfect in every way and not every aspect of his presidency was infallible? SHOCKING!
(via ikenbot)
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YOU MAY BE A TALIBAN IF…
1. You grow heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.
3. You have more wives than teeth.
4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon “unclean.”
5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
6. You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against.
7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing..
8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.
10. You’ve always had a crush on your neighbor’s goat.
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