NEW BREAK, PRINCE HARRY SERVING IN AFGHANISTAN FOR MONTHS, HE IS MY HERO

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i WISH HIM EXTREME SAFETY , HEALTH AND MAY GOD BE WITH HIM. I JUST ADORE THIS REMARKABLE YOUNG MAN. A REALLY SPIRITED , WONDERFUL FELLOW. MAY GOD BLESS HIM AND HIS TROOPS. I PRAY FOR HIS SAFE RETURN

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Good for him. Keep praying:k:

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The Drudge report should be ashamed for leaking the info about Prince Harry, putting him in more danger and the troops he is fighting with.

I have a very, very, very close intimate who served in Aghanistan last year and I know how difficult it is to be there. All of the troops from every nation are owed a huge thank you. I admired those how have and will serve. Many question why they are there I do not.

If its a simple as me being a woman then I say kick the mysoginists donkeyasses into hell. The women in Afganistan have suffered a great deal. It was only when the soviets were in Afghanistan that women had the most equal rights in the entire existence of the damned country.

Prince Harry is truly a hero in many ways. He could have easily led the posh life but chose the brutal existence and dangers being a soldier. A damn fine lad.

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Here's to hoping he kills a bunch of Taliban scum! The war in Afghanistan is a worthy cause all righteous Muslims support.

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CNN reports he got thirty of them :):):):snooty::biggthumb

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CNN reports he got thirty of them :):):):snooty::biggthumb

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:rotfl: keep supporting oh-so-righteous muslim. We should all follow your example :slight_smile:

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Right, explain to me why they haven't let go of their shuttlecock burqhas, which were so oppressive? Even after all the "liberation"..

Yeah, thought so.

Some "liberation", troops are getting their asses whooped, and Taliban are re-gaining territory faster than you can say prince.

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They still wear the burqas because the afghany males scum still terrorize the women. Nothing more then fear!!! Only a question why they still wear the burqa would come from a male

Perhaps you should be more angry and venomous toward the Taliban piece of stool in sty sludge that they are and how they have ruined the lives. Taliban and their sicko fundamentalists who live and think like its 1400 years ago. A country of many men who are afraid of a woman choosing independently of her own free will what to do with her hymen. The TALIBAN are ridiculous evil warlords who are waste of air, water and food when there are plenty of hungry, thirsty people in this world.

Crescent , Allah I believe firmly he will deal with them harshly and
and send them and his supporters /defenders into eternal damnation . All of them need to be and are asking to be annihilated. THey are truly the spawn of the devil who's mothers have been visited by the incubus.

Don't worry about ISAF, they are a remarkably brave, skillful and able. Victory to all who serve and may ALLAH bestow favors and guide them to victory. Inshallah.

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^That's a mighty emotional speech there.

Here are two simple facts:

During the Taliban rule, the poppy crop was eliminated altogether.
Since the coalition forces landed, Afghanistan is the top supplier of Poppy once again.

How does that add up? Isn't poppy illegal by moral and religious standards? Who would you pin that blame on?

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Afghani men dont do anything, women choose to wear the burqhas themselves, go down there and talk to them yourself. Or I could recommend a few recent documentaries if you'd like, especially "Women in Islam: PBS presentation" Where they interview Afghani women, and ask them why they do not want to take off their niqaabs (liberal journalist-women asked)even though the men cant force it on you anymore? And they answered with a simple "Because my religion tells me to uphold my diginity, the men have not forced anything upon us, this is our own choosing."

The reason I quote an American made documentary by a liberal female journalist is so you wouldn't label it as taliban-propaganda.

And Allah gives victory to those who tread on the path of justice. The forces invading the country have proven otherwise, but if this is what you choose to believe, then so be it. Keep praying, for in the end, Victory is with the muslims.

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i blame it on warlords, Karzai, and the stresses that ISAF can't be at all place at one time. As soon as some fields get wiped and others sprout.

There is much lawlessness and many who are afraid of Taliban and many who find it quick cash like in Columbia. In that country muslim kills muslim for sport it seems . Too much heroin or too much sicko religious zeal for blood and carnage.

But the issue is human rights, rights for women. Why are the men keen on writing posts which sideline WOMEN'S RIGHTS by concerns of other issues and questions. EMPOWEVERMENT OF WOMEN IS WHAT WE ARE AFTER ,. SOVIET UNION GAVE THAT TO THE AFGHANI WOMEN.

Taliban got poppy banned and women damned. WHAT IS THE GREATER EVIL. THE RUINATION OF WOMEN OR THE GROWING OF POPPIES.

WAIT TILL MONSANTO SELLS THEM THE SEEDS. ooooh bro I wait for the day.

My religion does not tell me to wear a sack of potatoes over my body. There is no such compulsion in ISLAM. NON WHAT SO EVER. SOME IDIOTIC MULLAHS WHO ARE NOTHING MORE THAN GANGLORDS/WARLORDS THEMSELVES MANDATE IT AS SO. THESE ARE NOT MEN OF GOD BUT IDIOTS WHO HAVE *******IZE THE KORAN TO SUIT THEIR BRAINWASHING OF PEOPLE FOR THEIR NEFARIOUS GAIN AND CONTROL. . It is NOT IN THE KORAN. MAD MULLAHS AND CRAZY CLERICS AND THEIR FOLLOWERS ARE RUINING ISLAM. AND YOU WONDER WHY THE WEST HAS SUCH FEAR AND ABHORRENCE. I HAVE FEAR AND ABHORRENCE OF THEM BUT WOULD GLEEFUL AIM THE TANK AT THEM.

*VICTORY TO THE ISAF . MAY PRINCE HARRY REMAIN SAFE AND BLESSED BY ALLAH AND ALL THE TROOPS WHO ARE ON THE SAME PATH. INSHALLAH. *

*Women all over the world should have the right to free will, choose who they love, choose who they will be, choose how they dress, choose who they keep company with, choose to walk safely down the street, choose to have whatever education , choose to dance, sing and scream out in ecstacy and pleasure. *

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I'm all for women's empowerment. But i will not sit here and say mini-skirts are a go! and burqas go in the trunk. That's not happening. Like it or not.

It's a muslim country for God sake.

Islam ensures Womens rights. In most instances, women have more rights than men. You cannot point out the bad apples and say the entire garden's rotten.

If Karzai's a warlord/druglord....then why is he chosen as the "leader" of Afghanistan by coalition? It would make sense to me to make someone who has ties with and identifies with the people universally a leader so he can assist in establishing peace. Everyone knows no one gives him a grain's worth of respect.

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Like I said, keep praying for them.

May Allah guide us all.

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i WILL , THANK YOU, AND IF ALLAH IS IN YOUR HEART YOU WILL ALSO PRAY FOR THEM. MAY HE BLESS US IN KIND AS YOU WISH FOR ISAF.

and a woman has the right choose what she will wear. Since the world is becoming increasingly smaller I hope one day there won't be an Islamic or Christian country but a country with a name and all kinds of people and religions that have vastly moderated their dogma. Otherwise , humans will annihilate themselves for GOD and there won't be anyone left to believe in his existence. If existence is all relative to the mind's imagination.

I wonder if Aliens exist in another universe who is their god? What would they think of this planet which exists in our universe. Are women subjected to the same distortions of religion by leaders who also act like mad mullahs, crazy clerics and such ilk? Or is there no religion and they have more peaceful and co-hesive society?

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And I pray that Allah (SWT) returns us to the ways of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) because we have come so far from the basic principles of Islam is why Muslims are in a state they are.

May Allah (SWT) guide us all to that which is best for us in this world and in the hereafter. May Islam and Peace prevail over all. Ameen.

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Ameen.

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Bravo, captain obvious has arrived to announce how effective the brutal Taliban regime was at dismantling poppy farms and torturing their farmers. Kudos to the Taliban for sticking it to the poor poppy farmer with the good old "you either stop giving the Northern Alliance poppy seed money or we'll kill you" routine. Gee, the Taliban stopped poppy production eh? Well... whoopty doo!

If Afghani farmers want to sell poppies, let them flood the international market with enough poppies for every poppy-seed-bagel-eating man, woman and child. Heck, even let them flood the market with heroin! Atleast they're not blowing up innocent men, women and children like your Taliban super heroes. But you would'nt care about that - would you? All you care about is them pesky poppy seeds.

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Under Taliban, money-changers never had it so good

The good times rolled for the money-changers of Kandahar under Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers.
But since the overthrow of the fundamentalists late last year, it has been downhill all the way for the southern city’s money men – and it’s getting worse.
“It was our best time in my 20 years as a banker,” said Gul Ahmad, a turbanned trader in downtown Kandahar’s busy Shapak Bazaar. “Whatever you say about the Taliban, they brought stability and didn’t interfere in business.”
Huge piles of banknotes are stacked up on makeshift tables, the money-changers squatting on the muddy, fly-blown sidewalk, or sitting in tiny kiosks along the shopfront. But the impression of simplicity and general decay is grossly misleading.
“There are about 100 money dealers in this street, serving import-export businesses trading with Japan, the Gulf and Europe,” said another trader, Abdul Salaam. “Commerce is the foundation stone of Kandahar, and we Kandaharis have a reputation for a straight deal and for keeping our word.”
Ahmad agreed. “In good times, we money changers collectively handle the equivalent of about (Pakistani) Rs 5 billion a day. That’s about $83 million dollars.”
But things have changed since Northern Alliance forces, allied with the United States and its B-52 bombers, toppled the Taliban for protecting Saudi-born militant Osama in Laden, the prime suspect in the September 11 attacks on the United States.
“Now business is down 90 per cent,” Ahmad said.
People were hoarding their cash, holding back on investment and new trading ventures.
Abdul Salaam said businessmen were waiting to see what monetary policy the interim government would adopt. Would it devalue, or scrap the existing currency altogether?
Both traders agreed the most important factor was insecurity – a combination of uncertainty about the future, and a nagging sense of physical danger.
“Business hates insecurity. If there are bandits on the roads, levying illegal taxes, we suffer. If we suffer, everyone else does too,” Saleem said. Law and order were essential.
“Traders need safe roads to the capital Kabul, north to Herat and south to Chaman on the Pakistan border. If the routes aren’t safe, business won’t flourish,” he said.
The local currency, the afghani, had hardened with the fall of the Taliban.
Under the Taliban, a Pakistani rupee bought afghanis 1,200. Now, under the Western-backed interim government led by Hamid Karzai, one rupee would buy some afghanis 475.
Both dealers said wild fluctuations in the national currency did not bode well for the future.
The exchange rate swung from afghanis 300 to 500 to the rupee on a daily and even hourly basis, and that was worrying. Ahmad said Afghans were quite capable of creating a vibrant economy with a little foreign assistance to help revive the battered infrastructure.
“Leave us to build the economy. We can do it ourselves. All we need is peace and security.”
There is an official curfew in the city, from 2100 to 0600 (local time).
The streets are patrolled by forces controlled by the city’s new chief, former governor Gul Agha, in the form of pickup trucks flying the red, green and black national flag and packed with gunmen wearing NATO-style camouflage uniforms.
Rusty T-55 tanks stand guard at the approaches to the city, and white-capped traffic policemen in shabby brown uniforms blow their whistles at traffic clogging city intersections shrouded in fumes from motorised rickshaws.
But the population at large is well-armed after more than 20 years of war, and ancient tribal and ethnic loyalties along with a general scramble for lucrative jobs in the new administration make for a combustible atmosphere.
Down the money changers’ street, an automotive spare parts trader is feeling the pinch.
“My customers aren’t doing new deals,” said Mohibullah. "They are holding onto their afghanis. They want to buy cheaply and sell dear, and they don’t know what the future will bring.
"None of us do.

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“The biggest achievement of the Taliban is they have brought sharia [Islamic law] to Afghanistan,” says Abdul Qudus, an ethnic Afghan and religious scholar who runs a madrassah, or religious school, for young Afghans in the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. “They have made a very good peace, they have collected weapons from the people, they stopped poppy cultivation [a source of opium], they stopped foreign interference - and especially religious conversions of our Muslims - and they started electricity in Afghanistan. That is their legacy.”
Nasir, a taxi driver in Kabul, takes a much dimmer view, and one shared by many of the Persian-speaking citizens of Kabul toward the Pushtu-speaking Taliban rulers. (Afghanistan has two official languages, Pushtu and Persian, and a variety of ethnic groups. These include majority Pashtuns, as well as Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, and Turkmen.)
“These people don’t have any home, any food, any income,” Nasir says, gesturing at a group of widows and their children begging in a busy Kabul market. Like most Afghans interviewed for this story, Nasir asked that his name be altered to protect his identity.
“With the Taliban, the first thing they build is a mosque and a madrassah,” he says. “We need mullahs, but we also need other things too: engineers, doctors, teachers.”
When Karim saw his first Taliban soldiers, driving in on Toyota pickup trucks on Sept. 26, 1996, there was little to indicate that the public mood might turn against them. The Taliban, unlike the fractious mujahideen rebels who ousted the Soviets, was able to unify a majority of the country under one regime and bring a level of peace that hadn’t existed here for almost two decades.
In Kabul, and the five other Afghan metropolises under Taliban control, this newfound peace allowed Karim and his family to rebuild their home. Around the country, Afghans returned by the thousands, restoring a semblence of the lives they had led in the 1970s, before the troubles began. Hundreds of foreign-aid groups began setting up food-for-work programs; establishing medical clinics, bakeries, and schools; and beginning the long, dangerous task of clearing away millions of landmines and tons of unexploded ordnance.
Today, the Taliban claim to control up to 90 percent of Afghanistan, but this figure must be tempered somewhat by the fact that Taliban forces still face fighting in more than half - 17 out of 32 - Afghan provinces. As recently as yesterday, fighters from Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance - the main Taliban foe - launched a helicopter attack on Kabul itself, destroying two civilian airliners and detonating tons of ordnance at an ammunition dump.
Even so, in those areas where the Taliban is firmly in control, Afghans say they feel safer than in previous years.
“When the Taliban came in, the fighting stopped,” says Ubaidullah, head of a food-for-work program that is rebuilding homes in a destroyed section of Kabul. “Now, it is OK, there is no fighting, no thieves, no rapists. There is also no work and no money, therefore there are a lot of poor people.” As fellow workers gather, he pauses. “We have a lot of feelings about the Taliban that I can’t tell you.”
A ‘pure’ Islamic state
But more than anything else, the Taliban aimed at remaking Afghanistan into a nation that adhered to its interpretation of the pure Islamic society envisioned by the prophet Muhammad. Part of this came from the utter disappointment many of these young Taliban felt as they watched the mujahideen turn from liberators into bickering warlords, creating an anarchic state where robbery, rape, and extortion became the rule rather than the exception.
“If you look at the constituency of the Taliban, they are mostly the lower rungs of society, those who have little trust in where the world is going,” says a Western diplomat in New Delhi with extensive experience in Islamic societies of the Middle East. “So when the Taliban come in, they say, 'You have no food? We’ll build a bakery. No mosque? We’ll go build one. No school? We’ll build one, and we’ll even give your son free education in the Koran.”
“When the son comes home, fed and in new clothes, the first thing he tells his mother is, 'Mother, I have done bad things to you. I should honor you. I wish you to forgive me,” the diplomat adds. “What mother is not going to be ecstatic about that?”

Now go suck on a lemon!

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Oh hush!

I dont like how you copy and paste irrelevant junk from way back in 2001. I'd much prefer you conjure up a coherent and sensible rebuttle - if you dare can.