Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#21
Bob, what has Holofernes got to do with the war in Afghanistan?
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#22
I think there are two extremes rife: one is that Muslim women should not wear burkas in Britain and Western Europe. I underline Western Europe, as there are no Muslim populations living in Eastern Euorpe, except the Balkans, nor do I think they would ever dream of opening uptheir borders to immigration in those countries.
The other is that Afghan women should not wear burkas in Afghanistn, and that thousands of British, American and other Christian women have to pay for this with the blood of their loved ones!
I don't care if Muslim women wear burkas, it's their busines! I think it's about time we started asking the opinon of so many mothers and wives and sisters what they think of their men being butchered on a daily basis in Afghanisan to prevent Afghan women wearing burkas in Afghanistn! And why certain "heads of the Army" never allow their sons to be sent to Afgahnistan or any other war-zone, even though they have received full training in officers' schools linked with a fncy salary!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#23
Allexander - where on earth do you get your information from you really have some very strange ideas.
The Afghan war is nothing to do with women wearing burkas in their own country. It is about supporting and stabilising the Afghan government in the face of Taliban insurgency. Necessary to prevent their supporting the Al Qaida terrorists with training facilities as they did previously and to also aid the Pakistani government in their war against the Taliban threat.
Many do talk about the terrible way women were treated by the Taliban when they were in control but that is more to do with education and normal female rights than the burka. No-one suggests, apart from you, that the burka is an issue in the war.
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#24
Barry, Al Quaeda in Afghanistan is a spent bullet of ten years ago, as you full well know!
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#25
Only because of us - leave too soon, the Taliban get back into power and Al Qaida are back.
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#26
al qaeeda are just a name, there are many other terrorist organisation operating under the guise of islam.
getting rid of bin liners crowd will not solve anything
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#28
Barry, Al Quaeda were not an invention of Taliban, who inherited the Al Quaeda presence from the Mujahedin who had fought the previous Afghan government and the Soviet army. I also bileve that Taliban knew nothing of what Al Quaeda planned on terrorist activities, reckoning that these al Quaeda people from many countries were just training as veterans of the Mujahedin war. They probably felt that they owed them some hospitality for past services in Afghanistan, didn't feel like physically throwing them out. However, they had thrown out the Mujahedin who actually did invite Al Quaeda over. So, when Al Quaeda commited international terrorism, the Taliban, then in government in Kabul, were as much surprised as anyone else!!!
They did say that they would look into it and expel Al Quaeda, but were not given a chance, and the US armed forces went in and bombed the former Mujahedin back to power, and then set up what you fedine as a "democratic government" in Kabul.
Before you keep sounding off and calling Taliban Al Quaeda and claiming that Taliban still offers Al Quaeda any kind of hospitality or that they know what Al Quaeda had planned in 2002, try getting your facts right and finding out who formed Al Quaeda in the first place, because it was not the Taliban who did!#
as for bombing and shooting democracy to power around the world, and sacrificing the men of so many Christian mothers and wives in the process, forget it!
Also, you have been telling us on your blog what you consider to be democracy, and that is that a conservatice oligarchy makes all decisions and we public should just accept them!
As for the people up high telling us that we MUST accept their war and the sacrifices in Afghanistan, I say that we MUST tell them where to get off!
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#29
Bern:
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Alexander, you are so wrong. I recommend going back and double-chercking your facts re the Mujahedin and Taliban. No-one has claimed the Taliban invented Al Qaeda, just provided a safe haven and support. The Mujahedin if anything are friendly towards the West who provided arms for their struggle with the Soviets.
Bombing the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and any other supporteres, out of existence would be, "a good thing".
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#31
Sid, there is no proof that Taliban support Al Quaeda at all! Taliban does not preach international terrorism, and Al Quaeda, according to the last information I had, set up head-quaters in Iraq, some years ago, right under the nose of tens of thousands of American soldiers! So how can Taliban be responsible for Al Quaeda, whom they did not form, with whom they did not and do not share ideas concerning terrorism, and when Al Quaeda is based in Iraq?
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#32
Alexander you clearly are detached from the reality. Sid is spot on.