View original postThat entire letter in a nutshell, we're fighting a desperate holy war that is totally black and white and I feel bad for you, well meaning but stupid girl, for the pain you've suffered and some guilt I couldn't warn you about your stupid foolish ways before you suffered the entirely justified if perhaps excessive punishment you deserved. I am greatly saddened you've suffered for being too naive to realize that you should have limited yourself to reading approved volumes and keeping your mouth shut.
Pretty much.
View original postThere's nothing new here, a fairly stale blend of ultra-nationalism and religious zealotry born from preferring to view one's culture as utterly superior in spite of its rampant poverty and the position as a leper in the world achieved through whitewashing history to paint some past Utopia smashed by foreign greed, jealousy, and general wickedness.
I'm wondering now if this is a common thing among the Taliban, this misguided nostalgia for the days of united India - under Muslim rulers, to be sure. In a country like Pakistan, with its rocky (to say the least) history with India, that's kind of interesting. I remember having read something about the subtleties of India's relations with the Taliban before, but sadly I can't remember now what it was.
View original postIt is amazing though how many similarities it has to various other fringe groups' ravings. Let's see, Jews evil, check, homeland was a golden Utopia before colonialism/immigration occurred, check, vaccinations evil control mechanism, check.
Yeah, that is kind of funny.
So for those who remember Malala Yousafzai (and if you don't, you should)...
- 18/07/2013 09:32:51 PM
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I like how he criticises the motives of present-day secular education based on a quote from 1835.
- 18/07/2013 11:26:24 PM
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Well there's some common threads with other rationalizations to be sure
- 18/07/2013 11:37:36 PM
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What intrigued me was all the talk of "India".
- 19/07/2013 12:10:25 AM
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