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Taliban shoot little girl in the head.

  • 11-10-2012 1:45am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭


    The 14-year-old schoolgirl shot in the head by
    Pakistani Taliban, Malala Yousafzai, arrives by
    helicopter at a military hospital in Peshawar.
    Doctors treating Malala have removed a bullet
    from her head. The 14-year-old had received
    threats since she spoke out against the Pakistani
    Taliban in her hometown of Swat

    This kid promotes education and peace. Some taliban members decide to take her life for having these beliefs.

    So this is the first time I've noticed a genuine backlash from average people from the region, Pakistan. Protests are happening and people are openly denouncing the taliban movement.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    Welcome to yesterdays news....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    News to me. Reading magazines years ago about the Taliban. They fought the Russian army with some home made junk and a couple of Chinese guns.

    To my mind they were butch mountain men. Now they're child murderers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    I could be wrong but I thing they were backed by the US in the days they fought the Russians.

    Either way you are quite right in that they are murderers but thankfully that girl did not die.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭DonLimon


    Yeah its a few days old but I didn't hear anything about anti taliban protests yet, link to article op?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    squod wrote: »
    News to me. Reading magazines years ago about the Taliban. They fought the Russian army with some home made junk and a couple of Chinese guns.

    To my mind they were butch mountain men. Now they're child murderers.
    home made junk ?

    The US pumped money into them CIA training and Stinger missiles
    and they reaped the whirlwind

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Welcome to yesterdays news....
    so how can you tell me you're lonely, and say, for you, that the sun don't shine?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Savages :mad:
    Welcome to yesterdays news....


    A little girl got her brains blown out and all you can say is "Welcome to yesterdays news...." - I guess as long as its not anyone in your family, who gives a fuck right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Lovely bunch of people when the opinions of a 14 year old girl are so threatening you have to shoot her. Allahu akbar etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    The Taliban are evil, who knew??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Murderous savages who belong in the dark ages.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Lovely bunch of people when the opinions of a 14 year old girl are so threatening you have to shoot her. Allahu akbar etc.

    She's Muslim too.

    Ironically, the meaning of "Taliban" is "students", and here they are trying to murder young girls for seeking an education.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    Murderous savages who belong in the dark ages.

    That's why cutting edge military technology is used to murder their country people. They may have an effed up society but the woes visited upon them by foreign interlopers is unreal.

    Also, the Taliban are scum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    The Taliban are full on Loopers. Here's an extract from a book called 'No Admission to Heaven' listing some of their crazy 'Rules'*

    *Try not to Piss yourself laughing
    No Admission to Heaven - 16 Decrees of the Taliban.

    1. Prohibition against Female exposure -

    It is prohibited for drivers to pick up women not wearing the Burka, on pain of arrest. If such women are observed out on the street, their homes will be visited and their husbands punished. If the women wear exciting or attractive clothes, and have no close male relative with them, the driver must not let them into the car.

    2. Prohibition against music -

    Casettes and music are forbidden in shops, hotels, vehicles and rickshaws. If a music casette is found in a shop, the owner will be imprisoned and the shop closed. If a casette is found in a vehicle, the vehicle will be impounded and the driver imprisoned.

    3. Prohibition against shaving -

    Anyone who has shaved off or cut his beard will be imprisoned until the beard has grown back to the length of a clenched fist.

    4. Mandatory Prayer -

    Prayer will be observed at fixed times in all districts. The exact times will be announced by the Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the extermination of sin. All transport must cease 15 minutes before the commencement of prayer. It is obligatory to go to the mosque at the time of prayer. Any young men found in shops at this time will be automatically imprisoned.

    5. Prohibition against the rearing of pigeons and bird fighting -

    This hobby will cease, birds used for the purposes of games or fights will be killed.

    6. Eradication of narcotics and use thereof -

    Abusers of narcotics will be imprisoned and investigations will be instigated to flush out the dealer and shop. The shop will be closed and both criminals, user and dealer will be imprisoned and punished.

    7. Prohibition against kite flying -

    Kite flying has wicked consequences such as gambling, death amongst children and truancy. shops selling kites will be removed.

    8. Prohibition against Reproduction of pictures -

    In vehicles, shops, houses, hotels, and other places, pictures and portraits must be removed. Proprieters must destroy all pictures in all of the abovementioned places. Vehicles with pictures of living creatures will be stopped and the driver imprisoned.

    9. Prohibition against Gambling -

    Centres of gambling will be flushed out and the gamblers will be imprisoned for one month.

    10. Prohibition against British and American hairstyles -

    Men with long hair will be arrested and taken to the Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the extermination of sin to have their hair cut. The criminal will pay the barber.

    11. Prohibition against interest on loans, exchange charges and charges on transactions -

    The above three types of money charging are forbidden by Islam. If the rules are broken the criminal will be imprisoned for a lenghty period.

    12. Prohibition against the washing of clothes along river embankments -

    Women who break this law will be respectfully picked up by Islam, taken to their homes where their husbands will be severly punished.

    13. Prohibition against Music and Dancing at Weddings -

    If this prohibition is broken, the head of the family will be severly punished.

    14. Prohibition against playing Drums -

    The relegious authority will decide the punishment for anyone caught playing drums.

    15. Prohibition against tailors sewing womens clothes of taking measurements of women -

    If fashion magazines are found in the shop the owner will be imprisoned and the shop closed.

    16) Prohibition against Witchcraft -

    All books dealing with the subject will be burnt and the magicians will be imprisoned and severly punished until they repent.

    No. 7 is my fave :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭trodsky


    squod wrote: »
    The 14-year-old schoolgirl shot in the head by
    Pakistani Taliban, Malala Yousafzai, arrives by
    helicopter at a military hospital in Peshawar.
    Doctors treating Malala have removed a bullet
    from her head. The 14-year-old had received
    threats since she spoke out against the Pakistani
    Taliban in her hometown of Swat

    This kid promotes education and peace. Some taliban members decide to take her life for having these beliefs.

    So this is the first time I've noticed a genuine backlash from average people from the region, Pakistan. Protests are happening and people are openly denouncing the taliban movement.

    Is there a point here?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    'Minister for the promotion of virtue and the extermination of sin'
    George Orwell would be proud


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    They have been doing stuff like this for years. Nothing new.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Our own lot used to blow up children ..don't forget.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    That's why cutting edge military technology is used to murder their country people. They may have an effed up society but the woes visited upon them by foreign interlopers is unreal.

    Also, the Taliban are scum.
    One does not excuse the other. Maybe they should stop visiting such woes on their own people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭up for anything


    the Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the extermination of sin.

    Phil Hogan pops up everywhere. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    trodsky wrote: »
    Is there a point here?

    Breakdown of taliban society? I dunno. Who shoots little girls in the head?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    I didn't know there had to be a "point" to every thread posted about an incident in the world.
    kneemos wrote: »
    Our own lot used to blow up children ..don't forget.
    "Our own" lot? They're not "my" own for one. It doesn't change the fact that the Taliban are sick fuks and Ireland is a far, far better place for people to live in than Pakistan.

    Anyway, this is horrible stuff - so what if it's not surprising and it's yesterday's news? No need for people to get involved in the thread if they're that unmoved and blasé.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    I agree with the bird fighting law.

    But kite flying and playing drums, seriously!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭Show Time


    Murderous savages who belong in the dark ages.
    Religion again holding up the human race.

    But than again no matter how far and fast modern man advances we are still stuck with all the sand rats.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    But kite flying and playing drums, seriously!?
    In that region, kite flying is very competitive. They attach sharp blades, glass and acid to the strings, the aim is to cut the string of your opponents kite.

    Needless to say it's all very lethal. For e.g. 11 people were killed during a festival in 2007 when the ban was temporarily lifted.


    Link


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    marcsignal wrote: »
    No. 7 is my fave :D

    Oddly enough there not completely wrong about the kite flying.........
    Pakistan: 11 dead, 100 injured in kite flying festival

    They use sharp kite strings that can kill and injure people.

    **EDIT**
    Beaten to it above!
    **END EDIT**

    As for the attempted murder of the young girl, the taliban have one again showed what a bunch of cowards they are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    How brave of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,476 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    marcsignal wrote: »
    The Taliban are full on Loopers. Here's an extract from a book called 'No Admission to Heaven' listing some of their crazy 'Rules'*

    No Admission to Heaven - 16 Decrees of the Taliban.

    1. Prohibition against Female exposure -


    It is prohibited for drivers to pick up women not wearing the Burka, on pain of arrest. If such women are observed out on the street, their homes will be visited and their husbands punished. If the women wear exciting or attractive clothes, and have no close male relative with them, the driver must not let them into the car.

    2. Prohibition against music -

    Casettes and music are forbidden in shops, hotels, vehicles and rickshaws. If a music casette is found in a shop, the owner will be imprisoned and the shop closed. If a casette is found in a vehicle, the vehicle will be impounded and the driver imprisoned.

    3. Prohibition against shaving -

    Anyone who has shaved off or cut his beard will be imprisoned until the beard has grown back to the length of a clenched fist.

    4. Mandatory Prayer -

    Prayer will be observed at fixed times in all districts. The exact times will be announced by the Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the extermination of sin. All transport must cease 15 minutes before the commencement of prayer. It is obligatory to go to the mosque at the time of prayer. Any young men found in shops at this time will be automatically imprisoned.

    5. Prohibition against the rearing of pigeons and bird fighting -

    This hobby will cease, birds used for the purposes of games or fights will be killed.

    6. Eradication of narcotics and use thereof -

    Abusers of narcotics will be imprisoned and investigations will be instigated to flush out the dealer and shop. The shop will be closed and both criminals, user and dealer will be imprisoned and punished.

    7. Prohibition against kite flying -

    Kite flying has wicked consequences such as gambling, death amongst children and truancy. shops selling kites will be removed.

    8. Prohibition against Reproduction of pictures -

    In vehicles, shops, houses, hotels, and other places, pictures and portraits must be removed. Proprieters must destroy all pictures in all of the abovementioned places. Vehicles with pictures of living creatures will be stopped and the driver imprisoned.

    9. Prohibition against Gambling -

    Centres of gambling will be flushed out and the gamblers will be imprisoned for one month.

    10. Prohibition against British and American hairstyles -

    Men with long hair will be arrested and taken to the Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the extermination of sin to have their hair cut. The criminal will pay the barber.

    11. Prohibition against interest on loans, exchange charges and charges on transactions -

    The above three types of money charging are forbidden by Islam. If the rules are broken the criminal will be imprisoned for a lenghty period.

    12. Prohibition against the washing of clothes along river embankments -

    Women who break this law will be respectfully picked up by Islam, taken to their homes where their husbands will be severly punished.

    13. Prohibition against Music and Dancing at Weddings -

    If this prohibition is broken, the head of the family will be severly punished.

    14. Prohibition against playing Drums -

    The relegious authority will decide the punishment for anyone caught playing drums.

    15. Prohibition against tailors sewing womens clothes of taking measurements of women -

    If fashion magazines are found in the shop the owner will be imprisoned and the shop closed.

    16) Prohibition against Witchcraft -

    All books dealing with the subject will be burnt and the magicians will be imprisoned and severly punished until they repent.



    No. 7 is my fave :D

    The Taliban pretty much just make it up as they go along don't they. I feel sad for anyone that has the live under their regime.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    marcsignal wrote: »
    The Taliban are full on Loopers. Here's an extract from a book called 'No Admission to Heaven' listing some of their crazy 'Rules'*

    *Try not to Piss yourself laughing



    No. 7 is my fave :D

    thought i was reading catholic cult stuff there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    11. Prohibition against interest on loans, exchange charges and charges on transactions -

    The above three types of money charging are forbidden by Islam. If the rules are broken the criminal will be imprisoned for a lenghty period.

    The Taliban. A great bunch of lads. They should be allowed run AIB (ONLY if they tidy themselves up a bit, wear exciting clothes, play a bit of classic rock and of course stop shooting kids).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    The Kite Runner film touches on the kite flying subject (obviously) but in that region.. I think!

    This girl is a true hero in my eyes and only 14. Having the courage to do what she's trying to do at such a young age is special, lets hope she pulls through.

    Pakistani government have the resources and man power they should remove the Taliban from existence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭LittleBook


    Actually they shot three little girls.

    The Pakistani politician Imran Khan described the attack on the radio yesterday ... he said the Taliban gunmen stopped the car in which the girls were being driven home from school. They asked for Malala by name and the girls refused to identify her ... so they shot the three of them.

    The sooner these despicable creatures are wiped out, the better.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 76 ✭✭TheBoss!


    Not as if she was given a Coleen Noleen esque hug from some durty old man or anything.

    Shot in head, meh - who cares.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard



    Pakistani government have the resources and man power they should remove the Taliban from existence.

    They won't though. The military calls the shots in Pakistan and they view the Taliban as a strategic asset, giving them influence in Afghanistan and helping them to counter India's presence there.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    That's why cutting edge military technology is used to murder their country people. They may have an effed up society but the woes visited upon them by foreign interlopers is unreal.

    Also, the Taliban are scum.

    The Taliban were doing very well for themselves oppressing "their" people before Bush's "War on Terrorism."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    what a job title

    Minister for the Promotion of Virtue


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    Phil Hogan pops up everywhere. :D

    PMSL

    That’s bizarre about the kite flying info stevenmu & wes, would never have imagined that.

    And on that note, the thought just occurred to me about this one…
    12. Prohibition against the washing of clothes along river embankments -

    Women who break this law will be respectfully picked up by Islam, taken to their homes where their husbands will be severely punished.

    Picture the scene:

    You have a big row with the missus, and to get her own back, she heads off down the river to wash a big bag full of her knickers....

    ...20 mins later the Taliban arrive at your door to pull your fingernails out with a pliers :eek::eek:


    BITCH !!!:mad:

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I could be wrong but I thing they were backed by the US in the days they fought the Russians.

    Either way you are quite right in that they are murderers but thankfully that girl did not die.

    I think the Americans kick-started the Taliban, but the Pakistanis then spent a lot of time and resources building up the numbers because it was in their interests to do so at the time. Unfortunately, they just can't get rid of the murdering medieval scumbags now that they don't want them anymore.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    I heard on the news last night that the Taliban have stated that, if the girl survives, they would pursue her till the end.

    This isn't the same as child victims of war. This is a blatant assassination attempt of a 14 year old child.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    TheBoss! wrote: »
    Not as if she was given a Coleen Noleen esque hug from some durty old man or anything.

    Shot in head, meh - who cares.

    :rolleyes:

    I've never clicked the ignore button before. Damn, it feels good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Pakistani government have the resources and man power they should remove the Taliban from existence.

    True, what they don't have resources for is all the refugees, that any kind of attack on the Taliban would create. Also, the Taliban would also strike back, like they have already been doing, at major Pakistani population centers, and have attacked the Mosques and Shrines etc of other Muslim groups in retaliation. That solution isn't nearly as easy as you think.

    Personally, I liked the idea Juan Cole had. where instead of sending in the military, they should strengthen the local government and local police forces. The locals will have a greater sense of ownership, and know the local area, and be better able to handle the Taliban, if they were given the resources. The Pakistani military are basically a blunt instrument imho.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I heard on the news last night that the Taliban have stated that, if the girl survives, they would pursue her till the end.

    This isn't the same as child victims of war. This is a blatant assassination attempt of a 14 year old child.

    Those Taliban arseholes need eradicating. I don't think their leaders want any of the members educated, male or female, because it's easier to bullsh1t uneducated peasants.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭up for anything


    marcsignal wrote: »
    Picture the scene:

    You have a big row with the missus, and to get her own back, she heads off down the river to wash a big bag full of her knickers....

    ...20 mins later the Taliban arrive at your door to pull your fingernails out with a pliers :eek::eek:


    But then would you not do your damnedest to make sure that she made 40 trips to the river to carry the water back to your house, wearing a burqua to wash your undies even if it meant beating her into it. Job done for the Taliban.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    But then would you not do your damnedest to make sure that she made 40 trips to the river to carry the water back to your house, wearing a burqua to wash your undies even if it meant beating her into it. Job done for the Taliban.

    good point :D

    devious mfs

    EDIT...



    I made a few adjustments to the crazy Taliban rules so we could apply them to Ireland, and the typical AH threads we are all familiar with :pac:

    No Admission to Heaven - 16 Decrees of the Taliban. Careful Now !
    1. Prohibition against Female exposure -

    It is prohibited for drivers Foreign Taxi Drivers to pick up women not wearing the Burka belly tops, on pain of arrest. If such women are observed out on the street, their homes will be visited by a drunken mob invited to a party over Facebook and their husbands punished house thrashed. If the women wear exciting or attractive clothes, and have no close male relative with them, the driver Foreign Taxi Driver must not let them into the car.
    2. Prohibition against music Shite Music-

    Jedward, & Westlife, Casettes and music are forbidden in shops, hotels, vehicles and rickshaws nightclubs. If a music Jedward or Westlife casette is found in a shop, the owner will be imprisoned and the shop closed. If a casette is found in a vehicle, the vehicle will be impounded and the driver imprisoned.

    I'm easy with that one :cool:

    3. Prohibition against shaving pubic hair -

    Anyone who has shaved off or cut his beard public hair, will be imprisoned until the beard has pubes have grown back to the length of a clenched fist, which will then be shoved up ones arse.

    4. Mandatory Prayer Grumbling about the Recession -

    Prayer Grumbling about the Recession will be observed at fixed times in all districts. The exact times will be announced by the Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the extermination of sin Richard Boyd Barret. All transport must cease 15 minutes before the commencement of prayer Grumbling. It is obligatory to go to the mosque pub at the time of prayer Grumbling. Any young men found in shops enjoying themselves at this time will be automatically imprisoned.

    :p

    5. Prohibition against the rearing of pigeons and bird fighting -

    This hobby will cease, birds used for the purposes of games or fights will be killed.

    Cue Martin Collins from Pave Point : "Racism Joe!"

    6. Eradication of narcotics and use thereof -

    Abusers of narcotics will be imprisoned and investigations will be instigated to flush out the dealer and shop. The shop will be closed and both criminals, user and dealer will be imprisoned and punished.

    Headshops anyone ??

    7. Prohibition against Political kite flying -

    Political Kite flying has wicked consequences such as gambling, death amongst children and truancy. shops selling Politicians flying kites will be removed.

    Fine by me :)

    8. Prohibition against Reproduction of pictures Downloaded Music-

    In vehicles, shops, houses, hotels, and other places, pictures and portraits downloaded music must be removed, unless you're subscribing to IMRO. Proprietors must destroy all pictures downloaded music in all of the above-mentioned places. Vehicles with pictures of living creatures downloaded music will be stopped and the driver imprisoned.

    Sean Sherlock copyright territory there...

    9. Prohibition against Gambling -

    Centres of gambling will be flushed out and the gamblers will be imprisoned for one month.

    The Chinese casino going crew are fcuked so....

    10. Prohibition against British and American Emo hairstyles -

    Men with long Emo hair will be arrested and taken to the Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the extermination of sin Mick Wallace to have their hair cut. The criminal Emo will pay the barber.

    :pac:

    11. Prohibition against interest on loans, exchange charges and charges on transactions -

    The above three types of money charging are forbidden by Islam every right thinking person. If the rules are broken the criminal Bankers will be imprisoned for a lengthy period.

    If only...

    12. Prohibition against the washing of clothes along river embankments -

    Women who break this law will be respectfully picked up by Islam the Dept of the Environment, taken to their homes where their husbands will be severly punished pursued for water charges.

    Go Phil !!

    13. Prohibition against Music and Dancing at Big Fat Gypsy Weddings -

    If this prohibition is broken, the head of the family, (if he can be positively identified) will be severly punished.

    Cue Martin Collins again : "Racism Joe!"

    14. Prohibition against playing Lambeg Drums -

    The religious authority Sinn Fein will decide the punishment for anyone caught playing Lambeg drums.

    There goes the next Love Ulster Parade :D

    15. Prohibition against tailors sewing womens clothes of taking measurements of women Xpose on TV3 -

    If fashion HELLO magazines are found in the shop the owner will be imprisoned and the shop closed.

    Problem ?? :confused:

    16) Prohibition against Witchcraft -

    All books dealing with the subject will be burnt and the magicians will be imprisoned and severly punished until they repent.

    Blasphemy Law ......


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    The girl's become a bit of a hero in my eyes since hearing about all this, hope she survives.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,188 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    marcsignal wrote: »
    The Taliban are full on Loopers. Here's an extract from a book called 'No Admission to Heaven' listing some of their crazy 'Rules'*

    *Try not to Piss yourself laughing

    No. 7 is my fave :D

    As others have said some, well ok one or two, of their laws actually were for good.
    They clamped down on the opium business at the start as well.
    Sadly the bad far outwieghed the good by about 99.9%.

    The taliban started in parkistani religious schools rather than in Afghanistan itself ?
    It is afaik primarily pashtun tribe and grew out of the religious madrassas in Pakistan.
    Pakistan are responsible for them.
    The Mujahideen were the ones backed by the Americans and were not the religious funboys that the Taliban turned out to be.

    And they never fought the Soviets since they appeared on the scene after the soviets had left in late 80s early 90s and after the fall of communist Najibullah regime in 1992.
    I always remember the scenes where they blasted the sh** out of the UNESCO backed site that were the Bamyan 6th century buddha statues.

    Complete tools the lot of them.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭up for anything


    marcsignal wrote: »
    devious mfs

    That's the way all cruel regimes operate - setting people against each other so that they don't join up against the regime. That German chap (not going to Godwin the thread :D) did it getting people to turn each other in. This country is going that way... social welfare recipients will turn on the private sector who will then turn on the public sector who will point the finger at the church who will blame the government - chaos is coming and The Anti-Enda will Rule! :D:D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 76 ✭✭TheBoss!


    :rolleyes:

    I've never clicked the ignore button before. Damn, it feels good.

    Well, you'll not see this as you have me on ignore now:

    I had thought it was obvious but anyway, my post was sarcastic, about how the media were giving more column inches that day to Coleen Nolan / Jimmy Savile than they were to this little girl who was shot in the head.

    Indeed, even this thread died very fast and got little attention compared to the whole Jimmy Savile saga and I was attempting to highlight that by utilizing irony, guess I failed.

    Did you really think I was saying "Who cares.." about a child getting shot in the head?

    Anyway, that's what my point was :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭Show Time


    At least the poor child is out of that hell hole and is in a bit more of an enlightened society.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭telecaster


    The girl's become a bit of a hero in my eyes since hearing about all this, hope she survives.

    The contemptible assassination attack carried out on Malala Yousufzai is being squeezed for all the political value that can be taken from it by those who seek to justify the "war on terror".

    US drone strikes have killed upwards of 150 children in this campaign.

    Where are the multi-page threads and extensive media coverage for each one of these victims?

    It's not the first time Malala has been in the media incidentally. She was featured in a BBC documentary at the age of 12 where she was interviewed alongside her father. The following is taken from the interview (via Craig Murray)

    Malala: “I want to ba a doctor but my father told me you have to be a politician. But I don’t like politics.”
    Father: “My daughter can be better than a doctor.”

    I've yet to see her father's choices in pushing a child in to politics - knowing the risks within that culture - questioned by any of the mainstream media.

    It's utterly appalling what has happened to her.

    At least she has a chance of recovery, unlike the many infants left dead by the good guys.


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