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2008-05-11 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Only Shiite islam allows burial shrines. I often wonder how many Muslims actually read Hadith or Koran commentary. When Christians started doing it in big numbers, Schism, Sectarianism, Secularism and Atheism followed.

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-11 04:18|| 2008-05-11 04:18|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I meant to say, "when christians began actually studying their own sacred texts..."

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-11 04:27|| 2008-05-11 04:27|| Front Page Top

#3 How many Muslims in that part of the world even know their letters, McZpoid, let alone reading?

Separately, why are the Afghan Taliban from Pakistan (and interesting tangle, that) copying the strategy that has resulted in Al Qaeda's eradication in Iraq? Getting approving headlines on CNN and in the New York Times is all very glamorous, but the proof of the strategy is in the killing, and it's been mostly Al Qaeda in Iraq at the receiving end.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-11 09:04|| 2008-05-11 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not a cargo cult - it's garbage worshipers...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-05-11 09:22|| 2008-05-11 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Boy, was that article unbiased. I'm surprised they didn't call them the "valiant, all-conquering Taliban", fighting "the evil, atheist, foreign invaders of NATO who have come to their country to eat pork and leer at their women."

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-11 09:23|| 2008-05-11 09:23|| Front Page Top

#6 My apologies for misspelling your name, McZoid. My fingers don't always know their letters, it seems.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-11 09:31|| 2008-05-11 09:31|| Front Page Top

#7 No kidding, 'moose. It shows how far in bed with the idea of American defeat the MSM is.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-11 10:16|| 2008-05-11 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 I've fought against the idea for a decade or more, but I've finally decided we are going to have to have a revolution in this country to maintain our individual freedom. It may not have to be a violent revolution, but those of us who want to preserve our freedoms are certainly going to have to stand up for them. We need to begin in the universities and colleges, tge source of 2/3 of the brainwashing modern Americans receive. Then we're going to have to get our message out better than the Main-Sleaze Media does. Destroying jihadis is all well and good, but if we don't have a free country to come back to, it's not much of a help.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-05-11 15:12|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-05-11 15:12|| Front Page Top

#9 McZoid...Most so called "educated" muslims don't understand the koran let alone the illiterate multitudes that constitute Pakistan and Afghanistan who memorize out of context words in Arabic they hear repeated without the slightest idea of what they are saying.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-05-11 16:40|| 2008-05-11 16:40|| Front Page Top

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