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2004-07-05 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Fred 2004-07-05 8:45:43 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Farooq is also a top leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a political separatist grouping in Kashmir. Farooq, a moderate, has been targeted in recent months by suspected armed Islamic groups.

Interesting group of coexisting terms....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-07-05 2:06:03 PM|| 2004-07-05 2:06:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Society for the Victory of Islam

yar! and we be the New Friggin' Crusaders and Corsairs!

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-05 2:11:50 PM|| 2004-07-05 2:11:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 (hmmph. Where'd my cookies go?)

ANYWAY, Fred or Dan (I'm not sure about the color scheme; maybe we need a link to a style guide from the front page?) wrote:

But why would anybody burn down a national treasure?

Well, it seems obvious enough to me why the current generation of leaders of islamic militants would want to burn down a library full of old books of import to Moslems: in their opinion, believers don't need to know the Suras or the Hadiths, or the history of their faith, all they need to know is the subset of the Suras and Hadiths the Mullahs have told them to memorize.

(And given that these are Kasmiris, who don't speak Arabic as a native tongue... translations and discussions of the Koran, and of the ancient dialect of arabic the Koran is written in, would be especially important).

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-07-05 3:17:00 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-07-05 3:17:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred has pale yellow, Dan has bright yellow, Steve Y has green, I have salmon.

Posted by Steve White 2004-07-05 4:11:06 PM|| 2004-07-05 4:11:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know if this'll go through, but it looks like I screwed up a link in a comment in another post; are any of the editors online right now?

(I feel stupid right now; it was another dumb mistake... my second like this in the past three months)

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-07-05 4:26:15 PM|| 2004-07-05 4:26:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Heh, fess-ups are good for the soul, Phil. I saw the broken HTML, but I'm not an editor (and don't wanna be), so I can't do anything about it. Must be that fancy-schmancy TypePad stuff! RB works fine when you use page 2.

Posted by .com 2004-07-05 4:30:07 PM|| 2004-07-05 4:30:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 naw, .com not an editor... it would interfere with his hit duties. :)

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-05 4:33:02 PM|| 2004-07-05 4:33:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's get together and purge salmon.

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-05 4:36:37 PM|| 2004-07-05 4:36:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I think Dr Steve would like to purge salmonella...

Posted by .com 2004-07-05 4:38:19 PM|| 2004-07-05 4:38:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 #4 Fred has pale yellow, Dan has bright yellow, Steve Y has green, I have salmon.

Jeeze Louise! Now we have the Rainbow Coalition.
Just kidding...just kidding...put down that pickle...

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-07-05 5:03:24 PM|| 2004-07-05 5:03:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Put me down in the writs as against this so called salmonella. Which have prayed on my
peoples thru good times, bad times, drives ins
and finger licking good times.

Protect us O! Lord from the Devil! KFC!

Posted by The Rev Dr Shipman 2004-07-05 5:18:31 PM|| 2004-07-05 5:18:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Shipman, are you really a Reverend? A Southern Baptist? You know dancing has been purged from my genes!

Posted by Lucky 2004-07-06 12:21:12 AM|| 2004-07-06 12:21:12 AM|| Front Page Top

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