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2008-09-26 India-Pakistan

'Militants are not taliban, we are' - seminary student

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: TTP

#1 Technically taliban is plural for taleb, student in Arabic. I don't know if taleb/taliban is specific to students in religion or if students in say mathematics would get the same appellation of taliban.

What we call Taliban were intially the "students" trained in the Deobandi Madrassa (Deobandi is a city in Pakistan) or in one of its subsidiaries.

The Deonadi madrassa has been a cesspool of fundamentalism since XIXth century.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-26 07:14|| 2008-09-26 07:14|| Front Page Top

#2 so just because some taliban are likeable, all taliban should be liked? Just as stoopid as "because some taliban are terrorists, then all taliban are terrorists."

If you're complaining about the bad connotations that the word is getting, blame the muslims who are giving it a bad name, not the non-muslims who are using the name the bad taliban call themselves.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2008-09-26 07:36|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-09-26 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Better yet, invent a new name.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-09-26 10:49|| 2008-09-26 10:49|| Front Page Top

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