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**t78VPkdO** · 09-04-2012, 03:57 AM

[QUOTE=Abu Zakir;782837]

I only saw the propaganda on British TV regarding the Taliban, so my views might well be wrong. But my impression was that they were trying to impliment the Shariah in all matters, stopping men from shaving or trimming their beards, punishing people for listening to music in the areas that they controlled. Yes they were still fighting a war and trying to establsih peace in many areas of Afghanistan, however had they not tried to force people to grow beards etc. they may have won peoples hearts and minds, and they may have got widespread support from the common people. The US may have found it very difficult, even more that they are now to get Afghan people to support them against the Taliban. I know I am making judgements on people I have no right to judge from the comfort of my nice secure home...and it was a very difficult situation and I might be wrong. The Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan used to have quite an interesting website that put their side of the story which was quite different from the Western and Arab media. It certainly showed a very different situation than the one presented in the commercial media.

I think a lot of things that they were criticized for were nothing but propaganda, but no one can deny that they shot themselves in the foot by (after decades of deliberate de-Islamification) trying to bring lax Muslims and Shiahs quickly into adherence with a very strict interpretation of Hanafi fiqh in regards public behaviour.

I always thought that they seemed to have learned their approach to policing the externals of the religion more from observing the Saudis (and then become even stricter) rather than from any teaching originating with the Deobandi Ulema on how to run a society.

09-04-2012, 03:57 AM	#21
t78VPkdO Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 444 Senior Member	[QUOTE=Abu Zakir;782837] I only saw the propaganda on British TV regarding the Taliban, so my views might well be wrong. But my impression was that they were trying to impliment the Shariah in all matters, stopping men from shaving or trimming their beards, punishing people for listening to music in the areas that they controlled. Yes they were still fighting a war and trying to establsih peace in many areas of Afghanistan, however had they not tried to force people to grow beards etc. they may have won peoples hearts and minds, and they may have got widespread support from the common people. The US may have found it very difficult, even more that they are now to get Afghan people to support them against the Taliban. I know I am making judgements on people I have no right to judge from the comfort of my nice secure home...and it was a very difficult situation and I might be wrong. The Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan used to have quite an interesting website that put their side of the story which was quite different from the Western and Arab media. It certainly showed a very different situation than the one presented in the commercial media. I think a lot of things that they were criticized for were nothing but propaganda, but no one can deny that they shot themselves in the foot by (after decades of deliberate de-Islamification) trying to bring lax Muslims and Shiahs quickly into adherence with a very strict interpretation of Hanafi fiqh in regards public behaviour. I always thought that they seemed to have learned their approach to policing the externals of the religion more from observing the Saudis (and then become even stricter) rather than from any teaching originating with the Deobandi Ulema on how to run a society.
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