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Post by Ben on Apr 6, 2005 4:16:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2005 20:11:17 GMT
I can't believe that!  |
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Post by Ben on Apr 8, 2005 22:39:05 GMT
It's sad, isn't it? Seems like a completely petty act with no strategic sense.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2005 13:41:21 GMT
Yes.
And I read that (well, at least before the Talibans) Afghanistan had an expanding film industry. To think a lot of them are gone...
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Post by B Thomas on Apr 9, 2005 15:10:45 GMT
Taliban = Telly banned...? ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2005 17:47:26 GMT
Yup. The Talibans banned television because they considered it immoral.
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Post by Wright Blan on Apr 10, 2005 4:20:03 GMT
Yup. The Talibans banned television because they considered it immoral. That and graven images of man are susposed to be banned in Islam. |
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Post by B Thomas on Apr 10, 2005 12:19:10 GMT
Hmmm... Some cultures used to believe that the act of taking photographs was stealing someone's soul...
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Post by Charles Roberts on Apr 11, 2005 11:11:14 GMT
Burning Tv prints for religious purposes will never contend with burning people for religious purposes. In this regard the British are streets ahead of the Taliban.
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Post by andrew martin on Apr 11, 2005 13:06:21 GMT
I think you'll find that just about every culture in the world has been guilty of mass murder for reasons of religion - despite the fact that most religions profess to be about love, respect, compassion etc...
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Post by Charles Roberts on Apr 11, 2005 13:55:07 GMT
Indeed. The thing was merely my extreme annoyance with the usual western demonisation of the Taliban, based entirely on George Bush The Younger's baseless claims of Taliban involvement in the WTC. With regards to the Afghan archives, yes it is a tragedy, but at least they thought they were doing God's work, and not merely using the prints to fill potholes in Dunny-on-the-Wold.
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Post by Lance C on Apr 11, 2005 15:08:02 GMT
They use to love Judy Loe in Ace of Wands in Afghanistan.
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Post by Stuart Douglas on Apr 11, 2005 16:19:59 GMT
Indeed. The thing was merely my extreme annoyance with the usual western demonisation of the Taliban, based entirely on George Bush The Younger's baseless claims of Taliban involvement in the WTC. With regards to the Afghan archives, yes it is a tragedy, but at least they thought they were doing God's work, and not merely using the prints to fill potholes in Dunny-on-the-Wold. Actually, I think the demonisation was based on impartial journalists smuggling out footage of regular Taliban atrocities against, amongst others, young children and unarmed civilians and not for so simplistic a reason as believing anything that halfwit Bush said. Stuart |
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Post by Wright Blan on Apr 12, 2005 3:16:04 GMT
Indeed. The thing was merely my extreme annoyance with the usual western demonisation of the Taliban, based entirely on George Bush The Younger's baseless claims of Taliban involvement in the WTC. With regards to the Afghan archives, yes it is a tragedy, but at least they thought they were doing God's work, and not merely using the prints to fill potholes in Dunny-on-the-Wold. Oh, where do I begin? First off, the media was reporting on the Taliban's attrocities TEXTbefore TEXT Duh-bya decided to run for office. Trust me, the US media isn't that keen of Bush, unless you're counting Fox News (run by his couisn Roger Ailes). Which media are you basing your claims on, by the way? The conspiracy theorists that appear on Art Bell and George Norey 's (sp) radio shows? Is this what the BBC is reporting as fact? Mabye Bill O'Reiley is right about the Beeb after all. And who do you think crashed those planes into the WTC then? |
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Post by Lance C on Apr 12, 2005 8:55:17 GMT
And who do you think crashed those planes into the WTC then? Arabs and Egyptians wasn't it? certainly was not Iraqis or Aghanistanis |
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