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Jihad Chic Comes to London

In the city's Muslim neighborhoods, an Afghan reporter finds a few too many uncomfortable reminders of home.

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  • Posted By: mallika.e.lucknow @ 05/12/2009 11:31:09 PM

    Arundhati Roy is one of the most unscrupulous, publicity-seeking people I know of. She would be raped and thrown into the gutter if she was a MUSLIM WOMAN IN PAKISTAN. Have you heard of Taslima Nasreen??? She seeked asylum in India but demented Muslims would not let her live in peach there either.



  • Posted By: mallika.e.lucknow @ 05/12/2009 11:27:54 PM

    iffi2go and ghulam muhammad???

  • Posted By: mallika.e.lucknow @ 05/12/2009 11:19:13 PM

    Partly correct. ANP came to power last year for the 2nd time only since 1948. Though they've had numerous power sharing arrangements with coalition partners over the years. Escalation in Taliban activity coincides with this timing. It's part of a larger ISI/military strategy to counter ANP's growing influence in NWFP. The Khan family of ANP was secular, and this built resentment among the socially conservative. It has been traditionally opposed to Pakistan's involvement in Afghanistan and India, and supported US invasion of Afghanistan. Also in the picture is the mohajir MQM-a slightly liberal, aka mohajir version of the taliban, fiercely opposed to Pashtun migration to Karachi. They're basically gangsters involved in killing journalists, judges, organizing kidnappings and land grab scams. Uptil now their policy has been to kill all enemies and switch allegiances to whichever ruling party ---previously Musharraf and now PPP. ANP was planning to organize a strike on May 12 to mark the 2nd anniversary of a very bloody piece of MQM work: the attack, allegedly organized at Musharraf's directive, that killed 48 peaceful demonstrators protesting Justice Chaudhury's sacking in 2007. They called off the strike in solidarity with army forces fighting taliban, and part persuasion by ally PPP, who incidentally is also allied with MQM. What is striking is how ANP was pressured into a peace deal with taliban who consider them supremely vulnerable. It always appears that 'hate-India' is the only reason for the country's survival so far, and Kashmir the only unifying factor among the Punjabis, Mohajirs,Pashtuns, Balochis who all hate each other. Not to mention the age-old shia-sunni battles that plague every Pakistani city. India has been progressing steadily since 1947, but Pakistan keeps deteriorating. Pashtuns and Balochis are really not interested in Kashmir, the Punjabis can be easy-going and tolerant if placated. Ironically it is the mohajir community that is unable to get over their immigration. It is constantly looking for reasons and justifications to hate India and keep the hate alive. Wow...what poisonous hearts and minds!

  • Posted By: Jack Lew @ 05/08/2009 10:03:01 PM

    I'm pleased with the election of Netanyahu who I think won't agree to any 2 state solution despite colossal pressure. A sovereign Palestine will be free to acquire arms and build capability to intensify violence against Israel. US should instead work on establishing one single pluralistic, secular and democratic state comprising of Jews, Christians, Muslims that will put all despotic and Islamic nations to shame. If Palestinians wish to reside in an exclusivist Islamic society, they need to consider migrating to any 1 of nearly 50 so-called 'Muslim states'. Muslims are either engaged in violent activity to secure more and more land or crying about "Islamophobic attitudes" AFTER immigrating to NON-MUSLIM countries.

    • Posted By: chiselled @ 05/10/2009 5:34:44 PM

      Errr...interesting but somewhat nescient. How do you think this reform process will happen in the face of such severe hostilities between America and the Pakistanis? It has to be done discreetly and rather tactfully. That too after generating a certain amount of goodwill in the local communities. Instead of giving money to Zardari, US needs to partner with locals in every city and village. The $3 billion can be used to create joint US-Pakistani businesses that will provide jobs to Pakistani youth. This program should be introduced in NWFP first-the ruling ANP given direct military and cash aid. CONTRARY to what you think --ANP is a left leaning, SECULAR party subject to regular terror attacks by the Taliban. Their secular credentials are a major reason for the presence of the largest Sikh minority in Pakistan. The NWFP government went so far as to distribute cash aid to the displaced Sikhs. A paltry sum but still a kind gesture considering they are bankrupt and have got no federal funds yet. Founded by Abdul Ghaffar Khan or 'Frontier Gandhi' as he was called, ANP is an ethnically Pashtun party and thus uniquely positioned to take on the taliban. Another interesting bit of info is that Ghaffar Khan was tortured by Pakistan for loving India dearly and opposing its Partition. He was the only non-citizen, apart from Nelson Mandela, to be given the Bharat Ratna-India's highest civilian award. Anyways, the ANP should be enlisted for good by the US. And a strong marketing campaign: espousing their anti-fundamentalist and non-violent principles implemented. Unlike Afghanistan which has been destroyed completely, Pakistan's social institutions are still intact. There are good chances that an active US intervention in the small Pakistani economy will generate benefits in a short period. In exchange for all the help, Pakistan should be asked to reciprocate, by slowly sizing down its military and the ISI. Once it is taken care of, 50% of the world's problems will be over. Afghanistan will become automatically stable. India too will heave a sigh of relief, and may even look upto Pakistan as a role model for good governance!

  • Posted By: Jack Lew @ 05/08/2009 9:52:15 PM

    Pakistan is the finest example of a failed 2-nation theory. 500,000 people have left Swat due to the ongoing offensive against Taliban by the Pakistan army. Much like several thousand Hindus from Kashmir have become refugees in their own country and CONTINUE to get displaced to this day. Similarities exist between Israel and Pakistan --both created and imposed on in an undemocratic manner by the British. Palestinians became refugees in their own ancestral land, and Pakistan drove out virtually all of its non-Muslim population to India. In addition Pakistan illegally occupies part Kashmir, while fuelling an insurgency that has been bleeding India since decades. Islamic separatist movement in Kashmir (confined to the Srinagar valley) not supported by Indian Muslims, has always been in the spotlight. Separatist movements within Pakistan i.e. Balochistan, Baltistan, Balawaristan, other Pashtun regions are very active and resent Pakistani 'occupation'. These have been irrelevant to the international community until now. Not surprizing because no nation has ever felt the need to interfere in Pakistan's internal affairs. On the other hand, Pakistan's entire polity is based on destabilization efforts in its 2 neighbouring countries --India and Afghanistan. Diplomatic activity in the US, and elsewhere, indicates that world leaders realize how preposterous it is, for Pakistan to be playing Kashmir when it is dangerously close to collapse.

    • Posted By: mango ice cream @ 05/09/2009 8:11:48 PM

      Afghanistan is less of a concern now, according to Washington. It is Pakistan that's the actual problem. Karachi routinely erupts in violent clashes. The latest one being between MQM and the technically pashto ANP which has a distinct taliban character. It left 35 dead and opened a new front in the war for the soul of Pakistan. This battle comes along side news that taliban have plundered and banished the minority Sikh community in NWFP. Next in line to feel the heat will be Indian-origin 'mohajirs' and shiites. The taliban rose to power and established their brutal rule over Afghanistan, in part by leading a genocidal campaign against shiites. Grapevine has it that Obama officials are quite 'shaken' by Pakistan's inability to understand the kind of deep trouble they are in. This maybe the BEGINNING of a very long and violent conflict. So it cannot be too late or even impossible to save Pakistan. US also seeks a greater Indian role in stabilizing Afghanistan, for it is the largest provider of regional aid to Afghanistan. India may feel comfortable doing more if the US were to focus mainly on ending terrorism within Pakistan. The existing scenario gives us a golden opportunity to temporarily remove the country's nuclear arsenal, lest they fall into extremist hands. Pakistan's military requires complete overhaul by US or NATO forces. Transforming the Pakistani military into an elite counter-insurgency police force should be the second most important step. Tanks and fighter jets should be exchanged with small sophisticated arms that serve limited purposes of fighting with taliban and terrorist outfits such as jaish-e-mohammad, lashkar-e-taiba, BLA, and the more than 20 extremist groups. Throwing money at this monster will be more of the same and likely to produce dubious peace deals at the most.

  • Posted By: Jack Lew @ 05/08/2009 9:47:00 PM

    Most scholars will agree that either economic, social, or psychological stagnation lead to collective violence as a means of self-assertion and release from emotional stresses. Unattached and disoriented people have little to lose and much to gain in their 'struggle' for religious and ideological causes. It's true that there is great social unrest in Sri Lanka, Nepal and some east asian countries. This is due to lack of resources, infrastructure and opportunities. Oil-rich Islamic countries also rank very poorly in human capital development, despite having ample supply of funds at their disposal. The inhibiting nature of Islam leads to much internal conflict for sensitive individuals, making them ripe for recruitment by vested interests. Causes and patterns in these disparate situations remain the same world over. Violence is often legitimized to achieve political goals.

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/04/2009 10:10:30 AM

    to the indians and their touts -
    no one wants to know what a sham democracy with genocidal records and 900 million srarving victims with a lawless rural wasteland running rife with terrorists who kill and rob at will and slumdog urban billionaires who support corrupt political gangsters in a extremist hindu state thinks about islam -
    it is a concept that vegetarians and grass eatiers cannot even begin to conceive after the worship of MOTHER KALI WHICH DEVOURED A WHOLE GENERATION OF UNTOUCHABLES ALIVE AS HUMAN SACRIFICES -

    hey ghavedas when dids you last burn a widow or an untouchable alive -
    enjoy that while muslims will just enjoy a beefsteak like me -
    hail the mother cow in her iconic glory

    • Posted By: Jack Lew @ 05/08/2009 9:40:54 PM

      47 Indian companies listed in Forbes best 2000 companies, including 3 in top 200. 4 Indians among 10 wealthiest!

      Great research on Hindu goddesses. Didn't Mohammad marry 6 year old Ayesha and justified that Allah not only approved pedophilia but insisted upon it?

      India was the most culturally advanced, self-reliant, wealthy country; precisely why the Mughals got attracted!

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/04/2009 1:13:56 PM

    taliban are a problem created by america to break up soviet empire and it is their headache what they want to do with them in afghanistan -
    they pose no danger to anyone in UK -AS THE SECURITY forces IN UK are much better than ithe newsweek or its readers give them credit for and i think it is better to leave the taliban in UK TO be monitored by M16 andour cops -THEN THE absurd islamophobic comments being made on this useless chic piece of trashy journalism -
    it is irtresponsible to allow one afghani immigrant to denounmce another afghani who is also a legal immigrant in UK -
    I STRONGLY PROTEST AGAINST THIS CRAP AS A BRITISH BORN MUSLIM AND I CHALLENGE THE BLOODY DEMENTED MORON S WHO THINKS THEY CAN DEPORT ANY BRITISH BORN MUSLIMS FROM BRITAIN TO JUST TRY THAT ABSURD ANTIC -
    UK IIS NOT AN ANTI -ISLAMIC SOCIETY LIKE USA -which is fighting islam world over to the point its president has to deny that charge .
    over and out

    • Posted By: Jack Lew @ 05/08/2009 9:37:21 PM

      Not so fast buddy. Very unkind words for a conscientious and brave reporter who risks matyrdom everyday.

      Relax. You seem very psyched.

      Hope you're not related to any of the 12 Pakistani immigrants arrested for terror planning in UK? Some are fighting deportation.

      US did fund several 'mujahideen' ---bin Laden, Hekmatyar, Masood, Dostum and their armies to fight the Soviets who withdrew in 1989. The taliban were kids at that time. They were kids of Afghan refugees displaced in the Soviet war, educated in Pakistani madrassas with other Pakistani 'talibs' in Balochistan and NWFP. Their formative years were 93-96 whereby Bhutto, ISI, and the pakistani military propped them up as a proxy army to take control of Afghanistan.

  • Posted By: Harshini @ 05/05/2009 10:20:19 PM

    You must wonder why I bothered to reply. That's becoz I know you get distressed with bad news of your terrorist country ;-) :-D

    I've realized my goal so that's it.

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Brothers-kill-sister-for-performing-on-TV-in-Pak-Report/articleshow/4477914.cms

    I'll devise new strategies to stay out of the limelight. You will not exist for me anymore.

  • Posted By: Shivangini @ 05/04/2009 11:13:12 PM

    "legitimate response to atrocities to Muslim populations in Palestine, Kashmir, etc"

    "I live in a neighborhood in Fairfield, CT where my neighbors are Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, etc. etc. The diversity of the people who surround me is something I find to be beautiful and"

    Oh yeah? Quite contradictory. I remember you said something else about "freedom in Kashmir" earlier. What the heck are you talking about?? My family members go up there for vacation. You find your life enriched by diversity, but don't wish the same opportunity for others. Reminds me of mullah omar who lived quite lavishly before being ousted. Now Sindh is part of India's National Anthem, so should we claim it? Hindu sindhis have special customs and a heritage to preserve. Nankana Sahib in Pakistan is the holiest place for Sikhs. It is THEIR MECCA. And they'd like to have it.

    REMEMBER -- KASHMIR IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF INDIA.

    How dare you talk Palestine in the same vein ?

    "I'm not sure if it's different in the UK, but here in the US it's against the law to impede someone else's personal freedoms and you can bet your ass it's against the law to threaten someone directly or to threaten their family. THIS MAN IS BREAKING THE LAW AND NO ONE IN THE UK, to this point, HAS DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT? That' disgraceful!"

    AAAHHH I SEEEEE

    Now we reach the CRUX.

    I suggest you read the laws before making controversial statements. Collect relevant proofs before calling for indictment! Playing on facebook or making phone calls is not against the law. It is easier to press rape charges for trying to have sex forcibly. I dropped the idea of causing trouble on my own accord. I have never been afraid of anything and believe me there is nothing you'd be able to prove.

    I drive an expensive car than yours. Never engaged in any type of deception or manipulation in all my 26 years. Have a family that loves me unconditionally. Who don't expect me to give up my principles and my self-respect to accomodate their insecurities. Frankly, I just felt sorry for you. You have nothing except some bucks you've made working in US. I'm far more fortunate, so I thought to just let it go. I have understood your modus operandi of taking advantage of any perceived weakness. I never intended to continue. This was all fun. One coincidence led to another consequence. I will be nice and wish you good-bye now.



  • Posted By: Katyayini @ 05/04/2009 11:07:49 PM

    No more posts? These are much livelier ones unlike its just crap where you try hard to write like a polished and politically-correct white dude.

    Do give us the genocidal records. The Indian state of Gujarat is famous for development and industrial prosperity in the last 3 years.

    "slumdog urban billionaires who support corrupt political gangsters" -- IN YOUR DREAMS. WHO slumdog billionaire WHERE??? British film 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a major hit in all of India, including 'rural badlands!' There was an Indian film on similar lines called Traffic Signal. Another called Chandni Bar won the Indian National Award. Khamosh Pani-Pakistani film banned in Pakistan is a good watch for insight into the Islamist mind.

    Your maliciousness should not be dignified with an answer but I shall oblige nevertheless. Mother Kali is a divine manifestation and depiction of the woman's capacity to fight obstacles and be self-sufficient. She is a huge inspiration for hard-working women like my mother who supported herself right from college. Indian Goddesses like Kali and Durga have played very positive roles in male-dominated societies.

    "MOTHER KALI WHICH DEVOURED A WHOLE GENERATION OF UNTOUCHABLES ALIVE AS HUMAN SACRIFICES" - Please back this up with references.


    India's largest state has elected an 'untouchable' Chief Minister recently and nobody burns widows anywhere. What you refer to was a horrible practice in ancient India abolished ages ago. I see you enjoy past history very much-be it Hinduism or Christianity. Its a good distraction from the present condition of violent Islam. Calling the Quran a "toilet paper" is not supposed to be hip either. Comparing the Conservative Right who define their values by freedom to the taliban and al qaeda is so imbecilic! WOW!

    "Do not accept my words, because I said them. Be like an analyst buying gold, who cuts, burns, and critically examines his product for authenticity. Accept only what passes the test by proving beneficial in your life."--Gautam Buddh


    Hinduism/Buddhism is accepting of every type of individual and their experiences. Human passions and sentiments are usually portrayed aesthetically by various art forms in India. The context behind the kayas, the mother cow, tantra practice which includes yoga and bharatnatyam and kathak and many other activities will not be appreciated or understood by some. Not because folks are foolish, just that their mental dispositions are not spiritually inclined. US too has a culture of college sports and other physical games which is unique to the US. Cultures are different across the globe but most share similar purposes like all-round personality development.

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/04/2009 1:47:11 PM

    this is a dastardly attempt to get one afghan immigrant to denounce another legal immigrant in UK -WHY dontv you leave the UK AUTHORITIES TO DECIDE who is a danger to britain -our security is better than the rest of the globe -and it is absurd to target islam in an islamophobic attitude as the taliban are in no way representative of islam but rather a remnant of the american agression against soviets in afghanistan

  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 04/03/2009 9:17:12 AM

    If Europe does not wake up soon, they will be overrun by the moslem pop. surge. Look at the birthrates, theimmigration from moslem countries. French moslem soldiers refusing deployment orders to A-stan. France is in danger from forces within its own borders, years ago, this country was the CAPITAL of Christianity. Your PC attitudes will get you killed. Moslems come to Europe, suck the social programs dry, and breed like rabbits. Soon, they will have an edge in men of fighting age, 18-40. Look up the blog "Gates of Vienna", you may be concerned about the stats. WAKE UP WEST!!

    • Posted By: Bloody Bucket @ 04/05/2009 6:21:12 PM

      Hey Screaming Eagle, I certainly concur with your arguments concerning the Muslims and their seizing of Western Countries. Here in the states patriots such as myself will fight and kill them by the scores such as we have in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, you and I have a president who sympathizes with Islam to the point of bowing to Saudi king in last week at the G20 summit meeting held in Englan. I know many of my fellow patriots including myself are in the Army and we are willing to defend the Constitution and our Bill of Rights and not some dictator in the White House.

      • Posted By: harris81 @ 05/03/2009 12:39:16 PM

        Here's a good one for you. I'm a Muslim and I'm an American Soldier, and I'm currently deployed to Iraq. If I were the type that some of the ignorant people here think I would be, why would I join the U.S. Army to fight against these terrorists?

        The fact is, Islam is in no way represented by these terrorists. They have no grounds - I repeat - no grounds upon which they justify actions when it comes to using Islam as their source of inspiration. And Muslims like me who know better, will NOT tolerate this abuse of is religion by such madmen. I have taken action by wearing my country's uniform, and I'm damn proud of being an American as well as a Muslim.

        No one here can take my personal beliefs and allegiance to my country, because someone before me fought for my freedoms. In the same regard, the moderate Muslims of the world who are inexcusably tolerant of these extremists need to rise up and crush this breed of men who know nothing but to spread a message that is the opposite of what the religion of Islam is all about.

        Lastly, my fellow Americans, do me a favor and please don't make an ignorant comment on something you have no knowledge about. Your ignorance and the comments you make as a result of it puts you on the same level of the very group of people our nation is currently fighting against. This is not a religion-based war, it's based on eradicating a poisonous ideology that has no right to exist under the cloak on any religion.

        • Posted By: Vigilance @ 05/04/2009 12:25:49 PM

          Amen - or Alhamdulillah, if I may. I wish we had more like you and less like the two above making up our nation.

        • Posted By: nvinh @ 05/04/2009 4:20:23 AM

          very well written...i applaud you fighting on behalf of America, and i agree that people shouldn't make ignorant comments about issues they know nothing about. Ignorance, to me, is a form of hatred. I personally wish you the best and safe blessings while on duty in the armed forces. God bless.

        • Posted By: habibti08 @ 05/03/2009 12:58:32 PM

          Awesome post, Harris81. Bless you and thank you for your service to our country.

          • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/03/2009 5:26:03 PM

            it will be clear in a few years whether u got your aims or went to their cause as a convert ,regards

        • Posted By: habibti08 @ 05/03/2009 12:58:01 PM

          Awesome post, Harris81. Bless you and thank you for your service to our country.

      • Posted By: mallika.e.lucknow @ 04/13/2009 7:42:22 AM

        you grisly-faced, stenchy pimp! howz work coming along at mirza legs open, inc?

    • Posted By: Vigilance @ 05/03/2009 5:26:51 PM

      You're a disgrace to my military.

  • Posted By: gbavedas77 @ 05/04/2009 9:53:54 AM

    To the Talibanis, and all those who support extreme Islam: The rest of the world is not interested in your strict interpretation of Islam and your desire to spread this strict interpretation to other parts of the world is inherently dangerous; Wars will begin because of it! If the people under you are so weak minded that they'll go along with your interpretation then so be it, but leave us alone.
    Call it good old American determination, but I'd venture to guess that our desire to live the way we choose in freedom will always outlive your desire to undue that freedom. For every extreme Muslim created by a crazy cleric, there will be an American willing to fight against you. Our fortitude has been questioned in the past, but if you want an idea of how sick the average American hearing about extreme Islam is and over reading stories like this one, just ask yourself how George W. Bush got elected twice here (and I didn't vote for him).
    I'd love to see a country who pushes extreme Islam try to invade the United States. There are more guns here than anywhere in the world! You'd see the Minutemen all over again, but this time it would be gun owning white people, blacks, hispanics and everyone else banding together to throw the Muslim invaders back into the sea!!!
    Jan, the crap you espouse might sit well with Londoners from Afghanistan, but I'd love to see you try that s%#t with anyone here because the results would be comical. Can anyone reading this picture this Afghan man named Jan trying to tell an African American woman what to do? How about this, picture Jan trying to tell your wife what to do or how to act. An African American woman, or any woman from America, for that matter, would bitch slap Jan before he got more than a few words out! ... And I'd be there to laugh my rear end off!!! :-)

    p.s. I'm also sick an tired of the Muslim sensitivity over their deity Mohammed. I mean, lighten up already and try to be more open minded like us Christians :-) Jesus makes regular appearances on South Park, he is criticized regularly on the Simpsons and I thank God Christians here are thick skinned enough to see the humor in pointing out the imperfections in Christian dogma/doctrine. God bless that Danish cartoonist for portraying Mohammed in a cartoon and its a shame that he was crapped on for what he did. To poke fun at a deity shouldn't require bravery as I am big believer in freedom of speech. If someone wants to say that Mohammed wears pink girly underwear and is a contradiction of himself then they should be able to voice that opinion without fear as I have done here.

  • Posted By: gbavedas77 @ 05/04/2009 9:53:07 AM

    I'm sorry... I'd love to have this Afghan man from London named Jan try to tell me not to walk down the street with my girl's hand in mine. I'd go Taliban and take his head off!
    By the way, Jan is breaking the law because he's impeding someone else's personal freedoms by walking the streets, telling people what to do, how to act and backing up his demands for good behavior with threats as to what might happen to their families back in Afghanistan if they continue to act in ways that are viewed by him as un-Islamic.
    I'm not sure if it's different in the UK, but here in the US it's against the law to impede someone else's personal freedoms and you can bet your ass it's against the law to threaten someone directly or to threaten their family. THIS MAN IS BREAKING THE LAW AND NO ONE IN THE UK, to this point, HAS DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT? That' disgraceful!
    These Talibanis make me sick: They call us infidels and espouse this deep belief in the most strict interpretation of Islam and yet they fund their operations by producing heroin!?!?!? Heroin that changes hands many times among Muslims before it ever ends up in the hands of an infidel! It sounds to me like extreme Islam has its stories screwed up: Are you people devoutly religious or just an Asian version of the well armed drug dealers I see on TV from South America trying to exercise their own agenda?
    Do the rest of us in the world who chose to live the way we want to a favor and isolate yourselves in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan. There, you can have all the crazy ass, backwards, anti-female rules you want: Just please, leave the rest of us alone! I live in a neighborhood in Fairfield, CT where my neighbors are Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, etc. etc. The diversity of the people who surround me is something I find to be beautiful and is something I truly appreciate. I go to my church, others go the their synagogues, and still others go their mosques as they choose. We all live happily together, we are all neighbors who help one another when help is needed, we all live our lives as we chose and we're all happy living our lives with the freedom to worship as we choose as well. Now, I know America isn't a perfect Utopia and that there is a certain amount of racial or religious unrest here, but at the same time, for the most part, all Americans live in a highly communal spirit in which people can worship as they choose without persecution.
    Continued>>>

  • Posted By: gbavedas77 @ 05/04/2009 9:52:44 AM

    I'm sorry... I'd love to have this Afghan man from London named Jan try to tell me not to walk down the street with my girl's hand in mine. I'd go Taliban and take his head off!
    By the way, Jan is breaking the law because he's impeding someone else's personal freedoms by walking the streets, telling people what to do, how to act and backing up his demands for good behavior with threats as to what might happen to their families back in Afghanistan if they continue to act in ways that are viewed by him as un-Islamic.
    I'm not sure if it's different in the UK, but here in the US it's against the law to impede someone else's personal freedoms and you can bet your ass it's against the law to threaten someone directly or to threaten their family. THIS MAN IS BREAKING THE LAW AND NO ONE IN THE UK, to this point, HAS DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT? That' disgraceful!
    These Talibanis make me sick: They call us infidels and espouse this deep belief in the most strict interpretation of Islam and yet they fund their operations by producing heroin!?!?!? Heroin that changes hands many times among Muslims before it ever ends up in the hands of an infidel! It sounds to me like extreme Islam has its stories screwed up: Are you people devoutly religious or just an Asian version of the well armed drug dealers I see on TV from South America trying to exercise their own agenda?
    Do the rest of us in the world who chose to live the way we want to a favor and isolate yourselves in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan. There, you can have all the crazy ass, backwards, anti-female rules you want: Just please, leave the rest of us alone! I live in a neighborhood in Fairfield, CT where my neighbors are Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, etc. etc. The diversity of the people who surround me is something I find to be beautiful and is something I truly appreciate. I go to my church, others go the their synagogues, and still others go their mosques as they choose. We all live happily together, we are all neighbors who help one another when help is needed, we all live our lives as we chose and we're all happy living our lives with the freedom to worship as we choose as well. Now, I know America isn't a perfect Utopia and that there is a certain amount of racial or religious unrest here, but at the same time, for the most part, all Americans live in a highly communal spirit in which people can worship as they choose without persecution. Continued>>>

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 05/04/2009 6:33:29 AM

    britain has survived longer than any other state in the world in keeping its freedom and ideals and it is through being open and it will last much longer than the union of sham states which are already divided into a mexican -african -hispanic and caucasian segment .
    regards

  • Posted By: tjhall @ 05/04/2009 4:23:04 AM

    Britain's openness will eventually cause their downfall. She should collapse about 2050.

  • Posted By: eye 4 an eye @ 05/03/2009 9:23:57 PM

    Chic? WTF????? There is nothing, not a THING, "chic" about anything islam or jihad. Aside from the fact that these people are both liars and animals, they are truly indeed first rate hypocrites. They will leave there own homes and countries that they claim to love so much and come to another that they claim to hate? Why not stay there and show some balls and join in on the fight for allah? They are cowards. Plain & simple. Then of course we have those pseudo jihadists mentioned in the article that are hooked on internet porn, How nice. I certainly hope they don't think that's whats waiting for them in paradise. Nope, they're gonna get those fat, hairy mustachioed, dressed in black unshaven pigs that walk the streets of there homeland.

    To all who read, I thumb my proud American nose at all things muslim, insult allah on a daily basis and use the evil quran as my toilet paper. (unlike obama, who kneels and bows to ruthless pseudo mislim kings and apoligazes for us being Americans)

    • Posted By: fm700 @ 05/03/2009 11:32:11 PM

      This response reads just as hypocritical. Obama says it as it is. Americans has been wayward in the past, but at the same time have done good. just as everyone else. It was Americans who helped Bin Ladin and the Taliban to defeat the Russians. It was the Americans who helped Sadam Hussein. Obama balanced it out. I keep reading complaints about Obama bowing, but it was an act of courtesy and not subjection. Obama has bowed to the Queen of England and Japanese officials so it's not a big deal. But his predecessor Bush actually walked hand in hand and kissed the Saudi Prince, which seems to be ignored because it doesn't suit extremist lunatics ideology.

      Sometimes I can't see the difference between the Taliban and a right wing, gun totting, Obama hater. They all seem to have the same narrow hateful minds.

  • Posted By: J. H. Strickland @ 05/03/2009 9:51:27 PM

    Religions have many versions just like software on computers. For the radical revisionist Taliban they are trying to go back to what they believe is version 1.0. It is also in other religions. Violence and a return to the 800 years ago will not suceed. As it seems when ideas make a bright final nova they are also dying. It is only a matter of time before new versions of Ievery religion will become the main stream and surpass the religions and sects in religions of the past.

    While time is ticking away we must protect ourselves and as many other as we can from the death throws of religious ideas. The Taliban are only one example of a brightly burning idea that is about to go out, unless we fuel the fire.

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