To: LindyBill who wrote (34618 ) 7/18/2002 8:53:17 PM From: Win Smith Read Replies (2) | Respond to Another story of that nature:Then came a day in mid-1994 when Omar, around 35 and preaching at a mosque in his native village of Singhesar, near the religious center of Kandahar, put down his Koran to act. Like so many saints and tyrants before him, Omar says he discovered his destiny in a dream: God was calling him to save his country from the warlords. He had already given his right eye as a young mujahedin to Soviet shrapnel. Now, according to Taliban lore, he gathered together 30 like-minded men to avenge the abduction and rape of two young women; the guilty warlord was captured and killed. A movement was born, in the rare words of Omar, as "a simple band of dedicated youths determined to establish the laws of God on Earth and prepared to sacrifice everything in pursuit of that goal." time.com The warlord had shaved the girls' heads, taken them to a military camp and proceeded to brutally rape them, writes Rashid in his upcoming book, Taliban. As soon as he heard, Mullah Omar rounded up some two dozen of his zealous students. Armed with weapons left over from the struggle against the Soviets, the students attacked the base, freed the girls and then hanged their captors from the barrel of a tank. organicanews.com cultural distinctions, not ethnic prejudice and stereotyping or anything nasty like that.
