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2008-05-02 Afghanistan

Afghan ban on soap operas recalls bad old Taliban days

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Posted by ryuge 2008-05-02 07:58|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 They want a prohibition against loud music, women and men mingling in public, billiards, video games, playing with pigeons all measures similar to regulations imposed by the fundamentalist Taliban during their 1996-2001 rule.

Pigeons are un-islamic too? Too much like Pig, or not enough like goat?

Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2008-05-02 09:58|| 2008-05-02 09:58|| Front Page Top

#2 We are 6,000 people in this mosque; our intention is to go and blow up all the TV antennas if they do not stop it.

Ah, the good 'ol muzzie way. If you don't agree to our crazy demands, we'll just blow shit up.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-02 09:59|| 2008-05-02 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 "In a declaration they proposed measures "

Proposed not passed. and if passed it will be after debate with voices of opposition expressed. Totally NOT like the bad old Taliban days.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-02 10:25|| 2008-05-02 10:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Cripes, the Afghan traditions these a-holes yearn for are killin, blowin stuff up and givin it to the goat. Frikin cavemen. I am far more interested in saving Iraq than this dump. IMO the whole pashtun crescent is little more than an above-ground special weapon testing ground.

Posted by remoteman 2008-05-02 13:45|| 2008-05-02 13:45|| Front Page Top

#5 This is one of the reasons that most foreigners have stuck to Kabul and left the countryside to rot, over the centuries. The population of Kabul has traditionally been much more receptive to outside ideas and freedoms than the countryside.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-05-02 15:13|| 2008-05-02 15:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Shieldwolf, are you channeling Barack Obama?

Are the rural types in Afghanistan clinging to their Korans?

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-05-02 15:43|| 2008-05-02 15:43|| Front Page Top

#7 No, they are just tribal assholes.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-05-02 18:46|| 2008-05-02 18:46|| Front Page Top

#8 That's one mosque that needs to be visited by a JDAM - a very LARGE JDAM - on a Friday afternoon. Maybe they'll get the hint, but probably not.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-05-02 21:54|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-05-02 21:54|| Front Page Top

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