Scumbag Taliban
Posted Mar 12, 2012, 2:46 PM UTC
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check the trigger discipline on hamid there
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They are not known for their intelligence, competence or discipline. Up to spec.
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Scumbag Taliban:
Is the Taliban.
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Anyone who defines "fair games" as a woman or girl going to school is inherently a scumbag. Anyone who decides to rectify that "fair game" with bottles of acid is the lowest of low.
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I am but a simple goat herder.
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It is pronounced hoarder.
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fuckin hamid with his finger on the trigger
hamid 4 life!
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Someone take that rocket launcher away from Jamal before he kills all of us.
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that is one of my favorite picture/captions of all time.
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OH HELL YEAH. Helmand '09. That is all.
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I would be totally fine if all they wanted to do was slap someone like a bitch for burning the koran.
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So Quran armour would not work after all... :(
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Well, they're against burning Qurans. I don't think they have a problem with a few bullet holes. On the positive side, you might be safe against flamethrowers and molotov cocktails.
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They can burn Qurans, we can't. What hypocrisy?
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Exactly, we can't even burn them if the Korans we are burning have been defaced and we were told by an imam that that was the correct way to dispose of a defaced Koran.
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Quran fire proofing would though
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You could just say, "is the taliban"
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Scumbag taliban: Exists.
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Double standards don't apply to holy warriors.
They've demonstrated they are the lowest level of intelligence by becoming holy warriors.
War for power, governing privileges and resources at least make sense. The benefits of winning are clearly defined and tangible when obtained. The Taliban may wish to govern, but the average Taliban fighter will not be involved in the future government and he knows this. He's in it for religious reasons alone. In normal circumstances, the would-be-rules would have to pay these fighters in some good or service. Some African warlords pay in drugs, sex and/or money for example and others promise to not have their family raped and killed.
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You are just throwing statements out of thin air here it seems. Please show me a study of the motivations of joining the Taliban. Sure, a lot of the Taliban fighters join for religious reasons, but there are also a lot of people joining for want of respect, money and protection of their family. Most of the Taliban fighters are Pashtun, many of these have joined because they feel the Pashtun are being discriminated in Afghanistan and neglected in government.
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The picture shows Afghan Taliban, they are not the same and as the Pakistani Taliban that has attacked Mosques:
Pakistani Taliban are not the same as the Afghan Taliban. They are largely unconnected. Yes, Pakistani Taliban members have gone on to fight in Afghanistan, but these two organizations operate entirely differently.
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Ye, I don't get these people either. Sometimes, you hear they murdered hundred coming out a a frikin' Mosque and sometimes they are doing, this killing people for burning the Koran. I think they just want to kill, that is all.
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ITT: People suddenly realize the Taliban is not guided 100% by religious doctrine, but by political expediency.
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They're allowed to break every rule in their holy book, as long as they're killing in the name of Islam.
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So how exactly are they different from Christians, again?
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Who said anything whatsoever about Christianity?
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This is a really popular, annoying non-sequitur that people on reddit think destroys your argument because pointing out the idiocy of extremist Muslims is rude.
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I know, that's why I called him on it. It's stupid. Muslims suck. Christians suck. Jews suck (on baby penises, giving them herpes, apparently). Hindus suck. They all suck.
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I did.
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OK... well, good job interjecting worthless drivel into the conversation. No one said christians are any different, asking
, again?
was worthless shit looking for a fight and arguing a point no one was making.
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It doesn't do well to take the Taliban seriously.
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Any group that kills because of religion should be taken seriously.
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They're killing to kick out foreign occupation troops.
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They were killing people long before Western troops set foot in Afghanistan. Indeed, most of their victims (pre- and post-9/11) are Afghans.
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Actually, the Taliban doesnt really target civilians. Thats mostly the Haqqani network. The distinction isnt made very much in the press.
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I don't think the Haqqani network does so either.
It's mostly the Pakistani Taliban.
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Burn a Bible
Oh, I will pray for you
Burn a Quran
YOU DARE BURN ZEH QURAN????? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! O_O
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Why burn korans, when you can slaughter men and women and burn them instead.
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Looks like someone is taking their tactics from Four Lions.
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Have you seen the movie Four Lions? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5YIuNez5O0
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Entirely different situation.
The Taliban in Afghanistan is a nationalist organization fighting to kick out foreign occupation.
Also, this post is incorrect. Pakistani Taliban has carried out attacks against mosques and as far as I know, the Afghan Taliban has not. The guys pictured are Afghan Taliban, not Pakistani Taliban:
The TTP is not directly affiliated with the Afghan Taliban movement led by Mullah Omar, with both groups differing greatly in their histories, strategic goals and interests.[4] The Afghan Taliban operate against international coalition and anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan while the TTP in contrast has almost exclusively targeted elements of the Pakistani state.[5]
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You know, I really wouldn't mind if these guys went around blowing up mosques and destroying their own books.
Unfortunately they blow up occupied mosques. If they were empty, I'd be all for it.
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And i bet they are not going to protest as much about the US soldier killing 16 Afghans - their religion messes up their mind so much that they consider a book (it's only paper and printed words no matter what the words are) more worthy than a human life
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Dam... there goes my plan to replace the plates in my vest with giant Qurans....
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Logic is not one of their strengths.
Seriously. The Quran in the Mosques weren't even the only things they blew up. They went around for days beating on peoples' cars and smashing everything in the streets to hell. At what point is that getting a point across? It is supposed to deeply hurt the US government's feelings that you went next door and took a bat to your neighbor's car? Wow, that's some powerful symbolism.
Edit: grammar
I like your comment and completely agree. But ive always wanted to ask someone this, why do you, and others tell us why you edited your comment? Specifically if you fixed some grammar?
If you post something, and someone reads it and points out something incorrect, (spelling, grammar, logical fallacy etc) and you edit it after the fact, it makes it look like the guy below you is crazy. And if you do this within (5?) minutes, it doesn't show the asterisk, and thus people can't tell if you have edited it.
2 minutes.
I had the impression that it was if someone came along and saw that your post was edited, they might think you had edited it to say something different from what you originally said. Therefore skewing an argument. :/
One thing to consider:
I'm not in the US, so I don't know what your media portrays. But what I see is the US pulling out of many locations (done complete in Iraq soon, no?) whether or not idiots dent up a car. Knowing this, I'd say causing havoc and then claiming "victory over the western devil" when the US leaves is a plausible plan of action for the terrorist organization. At the least, I'm sure they'll make some destabilizing attempts.
They're Afghan, they probably have a poor education and virtually no critical thinking skills.
Using this logic, we should make Koran armor....
Do you SERIOUSLY believe it's like that...? The whole point is not the fact people are burning a book. It's the symbol behind it.
When bombing mosques they're not trying to disrespect the muslims. Which is not the case of the american catholics...
Seriously those kinds of posts are as dumb as the theists you're mocking.
I guess there is no symbol behind blowing up school and mosques full of innocents and weapons (not to mention probably more than a few "holy" books)
"No disrespect bro, just bombing your shit."
PS- The Americans who burned the books, had been GIVEN the books by their afghan counterparts and told that they were to be disposed of.
Also go fuck your hat.
I'm not saying there's no symbol behind blowing mosques but the symbol isn't "I hate muslims" obviously. While burning that book by occidentals is in 99% of the time because they despise muslims. Seriously, I'm really saddened by what r/atheism has become. It's like "Let's hate on theist for every single reason we can find, doesn't matter if we're not logical." They're getting as blinded by their "atheist faith" as the guys they despise.
You can downvote me as much as you want, that's how I feel and I believe this is how most of reddit feels about r/atheism
Also hats? wut?
TIL a muslim who blows up mosques because someone burned a quran is as "blinded" as a couple of guys in r/atheism circlejerking.
Alright, I guess we won't make fun of the Taliban for killing innocent people. I'm sorry we misunderstand.
They may not be trying to disrespect muslims/allah when they blow up a mosque but I am pretty sure blowing something the fuck up is one of the best ways to show disrespect for it.
Indeed, but my point is the different reactions between shouting at americans for burning Qurans and blowing Mosques (be there Qurans or not in it) is because they are not fighting for the same symbols.
Nothing more, nothing less. I'm not trying to justify what they're doing at all, bombing Mosques is an awful act.
My issue with this whole thread is that it's based on a logical fallacy and sheer ignorance. And doing it like this doesn't solve anything. Even worse, all it does in deepen the gap between sides that should be trying to reconcile.
My two cents, I don't mind being downvoted to oblivion for this.
I haven't downvoted you bro and I understand your point, I just dont agree with it is all. We will not see in our lifetimes the ending of humans using differences for hate. If religion were literally wiped off the earth tomorrow people would find other reasons to hate someone for a difference. Maybe one day we end it, but not today sadly.