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2007-02-12 Afghanistan

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Posted by Glenmore 2007-02-12 08:13|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Is everyone in the Taliban called Mullah?????

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-02-12 09:12|| 2007-02-12 09:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Hello Mullah, hello Faddah;
Here I am at camp Granada.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-02-12 09:46|| 2007-02-12 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Mullah is some sort of Sunni religious title, Ebbolump Glomotle9608. I'm not at all certain, but I think it means he graduated from a madrassah and is qualified to head a mosque.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-12 10:15|| 2007-02-12 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Or just feels like calling himself that.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2007-02-12 10:44|| 2007-02-12 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 TW...So, the title of mullah is sorta like the mail order Reverand title you can get here in the States?

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-02-12 13:09|| 2007-02-12 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Mullah Ike.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-12 13:25|| 2007-02-12 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 I wouldn't presume to judge, anymouse. Some of those mail order courses are hard. And Abraham Lincoln taught himself lawyering out of books, well enough to pass the bar. It seems to me he had some success in life thereafter, but I'm a little hazy on the details.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-12 13:34|| 2007-02-12 13:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Mullah is like Reverend, as in Reverend Jesse "Where's the Camera" Jackson.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-02-12 16:13|| 2007-02-12 16:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's a link containing several definitions from several sources. Briefly, it's a Muslim title, meaning lord, applied to a scholar or religious leader, especially in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. The term is not used in Arabic-speaking areas, where its nearest equivalent is shaykh (implying formal Islamic training)...

Posted by GK 2007-02-12 17:27|| 2007-02-12 17:27|| Front Page Top

#10 My understanding is you're not really holy until you've lost a hand, a leg, or an eye.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-12 17:28|| 2007-02-12 17:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Right Seafarious. Being wounded in that way promotes mutual mourning for one another and a strange bolstering of a sense of male community-- a "badge" of "honor."

This is what happens as an end result when women are not respected and dealt with honestly as equals--the guys get really whacked out.

Posted by ex-lib 2007-02-12 17:35|| 2007-02-12 17:35|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 My understanding is you're not really holy until you've lost a hand, a leg, or an eye.

true, but the Big Turbans are only worn by those who directed others into losing a hand, leg, eye, or, even better, their lives. Extra points if you never left your Pak/ISI safe house

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-12 17:56|| 2007-02-12 17:56|| Front Page Top

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