This is what is was all really about.
That’ll show them pesky teetotal Taliban terrors.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – In Taliban times, it would have been unimaginable: a fully stocked Irish pub serving whiskey and cold beer in the heart of Afghanistan’s ultra-Islamic capital.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/04/17/offbeat.afghan.bar.ap/index.html
I wonder if they have a dress code, maybe only green burkay?..
Afghans aren't allowed into the bar to drink alcohol or eat any of the food served including the pork. The Afghan waiters have had their names changed to Kevi, David, Robert etc to save them from retribution and the main patrons seem to be westerners.
I feel that if this was a war for liberating the Afghan people then they should be allowed to go to bars in their own country. Why are there bouncers employed to keep them out?
The Afghans must first be trained in the etiquette of Irish theme pubs, having several hundred kills under your belt is simply not enough to warrant admission; one must swear like a Punjabi whore (see NYA for further information) and dance a merry jig (not on one) and grow orange side burns (see Ohioguy et al. for hair dye products).
Strange...seems like the best chance a citizen of Kabul has to celebrate Kabul nightlife is to emigrate to Belfast.
With a kool round of hashish that will be in ample supply this season 
I bet Nortern druggies will make a nice kool handsome profit this very first season… Now waht was that goon yelling about in US congress… hehehehe gooood I like it I like it this is just the beginng…
Interesting quotes in this article:
…even the Islamic fundamentalist Taleban regime, ousted in 2001, allowed foreign aid workers to drink alcohol in clubs in closed compounds.
One local Afghan newspaper recently carried a light-hearted report about the Irish Club, comparing foreigners’ need of alcohol to post-war Afghans’ need of electricity.
“Even foreigners suffer power shortages!” ran a caption under a photo of foreigners drinking at the bar.
Threats close Kabul’s Irish bar, BBC, 26 April 2003
Terrorism alerts have prompted the owners of Kabul’s only bar to close down temporarily.
The Irish Club has been a roaring success with correspondents reporting hundreds of drinkers inside at a time since it opened on Ireland’s national holiday, St Patrick’s Day (17 March). But the popularity of the bar, which is open only to foreigners in the predominately Muslim state, appears to have attracted the interest of terrorists, United Nations staff in the city said.
“On a Thursday night [the end of the working week in Kabul] you can have up to 200 people there and if someone were to bomb it, they could wipe out the entire international community in one night,” one UN official, who did not want to be named, told Reuters news agency.
David Porter, a British partner in the bar, confirmed there had been warnings of a possible attack. “We had a security warning for all places where foreigners gather, so we closed temporarily,” he said on Saturday. “We have to take people’s safety into consideration.”
Owners of the bar hope it will reopen next week, but its clientele is set to shrink after the UN banned its staff from going there for security reasons and other foreign aid organisations and diplomatic missions have issued warnings to their personnel. “It’s been placed off limits indefinitely after warnings that it could be the target of a terror attack,” said UN spokesman David Singh.
Attacks on foreigners in Afghanistan have mainly been directed at US troops but an El Salvadorean aid worker and an Italian tourist were killed by suspected militants in March. Mr Porter has been philosophical about the closure, describing it as “all part and parcel of being in Kabul at this time” and saying the establishment can undergo renovations while its doors are shut.
The anonymous official who spoke to Reuters said the UN mission was also concerned that the very existence of a bar in Kabul was “culturally insensitive” in a country where alcohol is frowned upon and banned to Muslims for religious reasons.
However, even the Islamic fundamentalist Taleban regime, ousted in 2001, allowed foreign aid workers to drink alcohol in clubs in closed compounds.
One local Afghan newspaper recently carried a light-hearted report about the Irish Club, comparing foreigners’ need of alcohol to post-war Afghans’ need of electricity. “Even foreigners suffer power shortages!” ran a caption under a photo of foreigners drinking at the bar.
While the bar is closed, expatriates wanting a night out have the option of going to one of the new restaurants - Thai, Indian and Chinese - which have recently sprung up to cater for them.
What do you expect.
The IRA are funded by the Americans.
Out with the Taliban and in with the IRA.
[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Nadia_H: *
Interesting quotes in this article:
...even the Islamic fundamentalist Taleban regime, ousted in 2001, allowed foreign aid workers to drink alcohol in clubs in closed compounds.
[/QUOTE]
The Taliban were well known for being warm, caring, sensitive, and tolerant people. After they whipped women for going to school, they offered them chai and snacks. Thanks for uncovering this gem.
[QUOTE]
Originally posted by Kareem: *
**The Taliban were well known for being warm, caring, sensitive, and tolerant people. After they whipped women for going to school, they offered them chai and snacks. Thanks for uncovering this gem.
[/QUOTE]
*
Yes, Kareem, didn't you read the part of my post where i stated that i was in love with a Taleban guy and that they were all angels sent down to earth?
i never stated anything, in any thread in Gupshup ever since i registered in 2001, that they were "tolerant" people, or "warm, caring, sensitive". My crime was to italicize a part of a quote from a BBC article. Those were the BBC journalist's words, NOT mine.
Ouch...Nadia being sarcastic....
Anyway an Irish pub is far more important than running electricity or even water. But of course who really cares about Afghanistan now that we have to rebuild Iraq and get all its oil.