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Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks
faster_manic writes "The Taliban has demanded that cellphone network providers in Afghanistan cease service between the hours of 5pm and 7am each night of the week, as they believe American troops are able to track down Taliban members using their cellphones."
Wow these guys are stupid. Just turn off the damn phone. Oh yeah it requires stupidity to be a religious extremist.
That way we can paint the whole Muslim world as being represented by the crazy activites of a small number of radicals.
Then someone can post a response to me and inform me that Islam is evil!
Yay! Slashbigots!
But if that's the will of the majority, then so be it. And if that's not the will of the majority, then get organized and change the law.
As a Canadian, I'm always surprised how much the religious right seems to have influence in the USA when the appear to represent the minority opinion.
"When you go out at night to terrorize people"?
Not opinionated at all, are we? You appear to have swallowed our administration's rhetoric, hook, line and sinker.
There were no Taliban members in the September 11 attack. None. The Taliban was guilty of allowing the Saudi prince to operate from within Afghanistan, and while guilty of their own atrocities, terrorism wasn't one of them. They were attacked for not arresting and serving Bin Laden's group to the US on a plate, claiming that was outside their control. (Which is very similar to what Musharraf has used as an excuse for not handing over Bin Laden for years now, but that's of course different, because he's an ally...)
These are the very same people we called "freedom fighters" while they fought the Russians. While there are people in Afghanistan desperate enough to commit acts of terrorism, they're not these guys, but other groups. Treating every single person in Afghanistan that's opposed to the US the same is silly, because they are often even deadly enemies. If there's one country in the world that is known for its factions, it's Afghanistan.
As for your idea to leave the cell phones at home... The guerilla fighters who (currently and allegedly -- this is Afghanistan, after all) support the Taliban tend to either sleep or travel at night, not "terrorize" and then go home. And if they travel, it's kind of silly to leave their cell phone at home, don't you think? Oh, that's right -- you don't.
"Not advocating" isn't exactly "forbidding".
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Ephesians 5:18- And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
That's a far cry from saying not to drink, or that drinking is a sin. It's saying that being filled with God is better than being filled with wine. Who besides an athiest could argue with that?
1 Peter 4 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
I don't see where this is germaine to drinking; it doesn't mention drinking at all.
1 Thessalonians 5 says nothing at all about drinking either.
Galatians 5:16-21 (more in context) says This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Hatred. Variance. Wrath. Strife. Revelling. All the same as drunkenness. Yet again, the apostles were so drunk they couldn't stay awake in the garden with Jesus.
Matthew 26:39 - And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
Mark 14:23-37 - And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
Proverbs 4:24 - Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
In other words, stop frowning!
Yes, drinking can have us do things we may later regret, but that's not the fault of the wine. God put wine here for us to enjoy.
Genesis 1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Certainly.
So long as the civilised, enlightened, peaceful and freedom loving society with a strong sense of compassion and dedication to the furthering human rights still retained any sense of self preservation it would lock up those towel heads and throw away the key. Sometimes you've got to split the difference and treat you enemy kind of like they want to treat you.
The enemy is radical Islam. Until we own their kids via MTV middle east or their society collapses from AIDS we should keep the fanatics locked up (at least the few competent ones). It that's for life so be it.
The logic of war is brutally simple. The logic of economics are much more complicated. In ether case there is no reason (short of following them and blowing them up with their cohorts) to let any non-uniformed combatants go free, ever. Shooting them all as spies makes more sense. Infecting the really incompetent with Hep-C and HIV then releasing them makes still more sense. (Last I checked Iran claimed to have no AIDs problem. Ignoring problems always makes them better.)
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
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