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2019-08-31 Afghanistan

Kabul: jacket wallah kabooms 4, very bad guy somehow dies in custody

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-31 01:37|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Funny. Pahlawan means 'strongman', sometimes used to describe wrestlers or bouncers.

Strongman Jamshid.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-31 15:46|| 2019-08-31 15:46|| Front Page Top

#2 The great mystery of countries where Islam took hold is what the hell were they believing in before, if anything. I mean what kind kind of life path is blowing yourself up in public and taking innocent people with you?

Posted by jpal 2019-08-31 16:07|| 2019-08-31 16:07|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a paleostinian invention I believe, the suicide bomber. While the original madness of islam declared suicide a sin, later mullahs added to the dogma their own interpretations as per convenience.

I think it was the paleostinian Abdullah Yusuf Azzam who first began to ideate on explosive martyrdom as a justified tactic for the dawah (religious war). He used some long dead saudi arabian asshole's religious writings from the 17th century to forward this doctrine. As it happened, Ossama was a fan of Azzam's and included many of his teachings in the training of his acolytes.

But the most widely read asshole among jihadi ideologues is Taqi al-din Ahmad Ibn Taymiya (1263-1328), a Turkish asshole. He used to issue fatwas to Turkmeins and erstwhile chechens to battle Mongols, and commanded them to martyrdom, taking as many Mongols as they could. Some men obviously high on hash used to run burning, into camps setting supplies and stuff on fire until they were killed. Ossama, Zawahiri and others all cited him when exhorting their followers to undertake suicide missions. I'm sure that did not suffice and yuge quantities of hash or cocaine were involved.

Finally, Hamas released their charterin the late 80s, declaring it a great islamic privilege to be a suicide bomber, and turned out the first bomb-vests. Only the israelis know what havoc they caused after that, until security agencies got a handle on barely the tactics involved.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-31 16:44|| 2019-08-31 16:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Explosive martyrdom may be a Palestinian invention but it sure as hell caught on in the rest of the Islamic world. I include flying passenger planes into building in the same category.

Posted by jpal 2019-08-31 19:40|| 2019-08-31 19:40|| Front Page Top

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