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Politics : The Truth About Islam
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To: faqsnlojiks who wrote (5461)2/28/2007 3:47:17 PM
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"Do the Taliban consider other Muslim peoples (Shites, etc.) "infidels", and use this term to describe them?"

I don't know but I would guess that they do. They probably start by labeling them Kaffur (which can mean believers who don't follow the correct religious practice). Kaffur is usually what Christians and Jews get labeled even though the Quran says that Christians and Jews are true believers who should be blessed for practicing according to the books they were given. But that is easy to screw up if you want to be extreme about it. That term is a baby step to Infidel in the Extremists camp.

"I have never heard of a slur used by American soldiers related specifically to the religion of the opposition.

I've heard lots from non-soldiers, so I would guess some of them have special words like rag head or something. But that wasn't my point. We don't (most of us) think of our country as having a religious enemy so I wouldn't expect one slur to be used militarily. I figure there must have been something during the middle ages crusade but that's just a guess and it isn't important. The slur has an effective usage to dehumanize or objectify the enemy. There is no stigma to killing a thing.

"If the belief among non-Taliban Muslims is that Taliban spokespersons (in this case, Mullah Hayatullah Khan), are just trying to incite more violence between Islam and the West, then shouldn't they be more involved in silencing this kind of rhetoric by fighting side-by-side with U.S. and other western forces to end it?"

The Taliban probably skip the light fan dango when they think about Muslims being persecuted in America.

The Taliban don't have a 'with us or against us' morality, they have a with us or suffer untold agony, then die morality. Remember the women who had acid thrown in their faces, etc. in Afghanistan under Taliban rule? They weren't Americans.
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