[Nettime-bold] Bulldoze a wall over them.

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

Another helpful hint - just in from Taliban:
Non-Muslims must wear yellow patches to help the faithful avoid 
them.

hmmm, I remember we've seen those yellow patches on people 
somewhere earlier in the last century. it didn't end up too well.

Plus, given that the Taliban law prohibits practically any human 
activity save for prayer and punishment (even KITES of all things 
are forbidden), and thinking how they treat women (and men) of 
ordinary disposition, I wondered what happens to homosexuals. I 
mean, I was pretty sure that such a dire offense would be punished 
by death, but since so many other things are punished by death, 
there must have been something 'original' reserved for gays - there 
is no other fun that coming up with new and imaginative ways of 
torture and killing under Taliban, anyway - an on-line Economist 
article proved me right - there was a worthy 'intelectual' debate over 
that issue among the 'seekers of knowledge': "Taliban theorists 
have debated whether the proper punishment for homosexuals is to 
bulldoze a wall over them or to bury them alive." Poor Pat 
Robertson, he looks like an amateur homophobic compared to 
them.

This, here, looks like a must-read historic perspective on how Al 
Qaeda might be working:
http://www.phinnweb.com/neuro/assassins.html
Although this "terrorist" group was set in 11th century, it seems 
that those who 'harboured' it were actually fairly liberal for those 
times - quite unlike the Taliban of today - and in a way more 
advanced than their Western adversaries, who learned from them to 
establish their Templars and CIA-s later - again unlike this modern 
network, that seems to be formed in a reversal of roles.

ivo


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