New Taliban rules target Afghan teachers (1. Warning 2. Beating 3. Death)

[rainbow4321]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_TALIBAN_RULES?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-12-09-14-26-40


The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed.

The new list of 30 rules, decided on during a high Taliban meeting in September or October and since circulated over the Internet, span from the organizational - no jihad equipment may be used for personal means - to the health conscious - militants are not supposed to smoke.

The 30 Taliban rules also spell out opposition to development projects from aid organizations, including clinics, roads and schools.

"If a school fails a warning to close, it must be burned. But all religious books must be secured beforehand," rule No. 26 says.

[Telly Savalas]

1. Can we start a pool to place bets on how many posts there will be

until somebody claims that this article is the fabrication of a CIA psy-ops campaign to drum up support for the military occupation of Afghanistan.

On a more serious note, assholes like these are also seizing control of Somalia. For all the Right's huffing and puffing about "Islamofascism", it's curious how quiet they are about Somalia.

[Chulanowa]

3. Somalia's full of black people

And worse, it's in Africa.

[Phredicles]

2. But wait: I thought things were going "swimmingly" in Afghanistan.

Of course, Ann Coli likely approves of such anti-educationism.