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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: average joe who wrote (4746)12/13/2000 8:31:10 AM
From: Dayuhan   of 28931
 
The Taleban did not arrive on earth by reverse osmosis, they sprang from the loins of Taleban mothers.

Wherever do you get these notions? The Taleban did not exist before the early 1990's; the movement began among Muslim seminarians of the Pathan tribe, in Peshawar. It drew its inspiration from the Muslim fundamentalism of the middle east and its material support from Pakistan, much of it provided by Islamic radicals elsewhere. It is largely an instrument for Pathan domination, and is widely resisted among non-Pathans.

Getting rid of the Taleban will not in itself solve the problems of Afghanistan. Most of the groups opposing the Taleban are cut from the same cloth; few capable of moderate or progressive leadership survived the wars. But that does not mean we need to accept the Taleban as an inevitability, or pretend to ourselves that they have some sort of historical mandate to oppress their people.
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