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Taliban Demands Unbiased Coverage of Its Attempted Murder of a 14-Year-Old Girl

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The Taliban is mad because the rest of Pakistan is mad at them over the shooting. "Undoubtedly this is the worst press the TTP has ever had, there is no doubt," Rana Jawad, Islamabad bureau chief of Geo News, told The Guardian's Islamabad correspondent Jon Boone. The Taliban have been furious that justification for the attack, that the girl was being "un-Islamic," was not being placed prominently in news stories. Muhammad Amir Rana of the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, says the Taliban are taking a PR beating. "We have seen a similar public sentiment in the past, but this time it is quite unique," he said. "This case has provided a catharsis of the masses for all the grievances that have been building up for years."
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That's progress.
 
radcen said:
Nobody understands why we shot that 14 yr old girl, and now they're saying mean things about us. :baby2
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Hehe- we think it's bad now. Just wait until they have reached teenage status. :lol:
 
Hmm....Paki media is finally beginning to realize that they could be next so it might be a good idea to rally up a little support. Interesting.
 
radcen said:
Nobody understands why we shot that 14 yr old girl, and now they're saying mean things about us. :baby2
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How about a cruise missile, they're pretty unbiased.
 
Hmm, mainstream Pakistanis aren't understanding why the big, bad Taliban was justified in shooting a child in the face. Who knew? :lol:
 
Hopefully the people of Pakastan will be motivated to rid their country of Taliban. Beliefs or not, the Taliban have no place in todays world, (imo).
 
Either they have a collective "right" to live as they choose, with their own laws, or they don't.
Which is it?

If they do, it doesn't matter.

If they don't, then we "as in a collective world we", need to be involved in a little more policing action. An not be restrained when doing it.


So which route do we take?
 
Excon said:
Either they have a collective "right" to live as they choose, with their own laws, or they don't.
Which is it?

If they do, it doesn't matter.

If they don't, then we "as in a collective world we", need to be involved in a little more policing action. An not be restrained when doing it.


So which route do we take?
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I'd say let the pakistani people decide what to do about the Taliban. THEN toast the arseholes if pakistanis wont do it themselves.
 
Jonsa said:
I'd say let the pakistani people decide what to do about the Taliban. THEN toast the arseholes if pakistanis wont do it themselves.
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So that is one vote for they have the right to live as the choose, with conditions. lol
 
Excon said:
So that is one vote for they have the right to live as the choose, with conditions. lol
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yep. really just one clear condition - rein in the taliban politically and militarily so they cannot be a terrorist threat to anyone including their fellow citizens, afghanis and the west.
 
Sonic said:
Isn't that how it always is with dealing with the US? :lol:
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As it stands, I am pretty sure that is what every Country does.
Or are you saying the U.S. should be different, and not seek conditions favorable to it?
 
Excon said:
So that is one vote for they have the right to live as the choose, with conditions. lol
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Pretty much. Someone may choose to live their life as a serial killer but that doesn't mean the rest of society has to allow that.
 
Jonsa said:
yep. really just one clear condition - rein in the taliban politically and militarily so they cannot be a terrorist threat to anyone including their fellow citizens, afghanis and the west.
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Paratrooper said:
Pretty much. Someone may choose to live their life as a serial killer but that doesn't mean the rest of society has to allow that.
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Ahhh!

So that really wasn't votes for option one, but actual votes for option two.


Why didn't you both just say so to begin with? iLOL
 
DiAnna said:
Hmm, mainstream Pakistanis aren't understanding why the big, bad Taliban was justified in shooting a child in the face. Who knew? :lol:
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In the face? Now I think I can provide a meaningful interpretation: they couldn't understand why she shaved her beard. :lol:
 
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Excon said:
As it stands, I am pretty sure that is what every Country does.
Or are you saying the U.S. should be different, and not seek conditions favorable to it?
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I never made any such assertion. It's sick what the Taliban is doing, but I don't think that the US should intervene right now. My personal opinion, if you want to go for it. Kick some Taliban ass!
 
Excon said:
Ahhh!

So that really wasn't votes for option one, but actual votes for option two.


Why didn't you both just say so to begin with? iLOL
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I'm kind of on the fence on this one. On the one hand I think we should only be involved in matters of strategic interest to us, but on the other hand I feel there are some things that are so bad that we simply can't over look them.
 
Sonic said:
I never made any such assertion. It's sick what the Taliban is doing, but I don't think that the US should intervene right now. My personal opinion, if you want to go for it. Kick some Taliban ass!
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Didn't say you did. I was just asking a question.
 
Excon said:
Either they have a collective "right" to live as they choose, with their own laws, or they don't.
Which is it?

If they do, it doesn't matter.

If they don't, then we "as in a collective world we", need to be involved in a little more policing action. An not be restrained when doing it.


So which route do we take?
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I would give them all individual free credit, and when all their farms are mortgaged to no return, I would package them and sell them to the highest bidder. Then, their chauvinist men will be in the same shoes as their abused women. What is even more interesting, those girls don't want to be saved.
 
Paratrooper said:
I'm kind of on the fence on this one. On the one hand I think we should only be involved in matters of strategic interest to us, but on the other hand I feel there are some things that are so bad that we simply can't over look them.
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I understand. One day you will make up your mind.
 
ab9924 said:
I would give them all individual free credit, and when all their farms are mortgaged to no return, I would package them and sell them to the highest bidder. Then, their chauvinist men will be in the same shoes as their abused women. What is even more interesting, those girls don't want to be saved.
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:lamo
It would have only been better if you had said "highest female bidder".
 
Excon said:
Didn't say you did. I was just asking a question.
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Sorry, I misinterpreted what you said. But, yes, the US should seek favorable things. There are probably quite a few different opinions on what would be favorable to the US as of right now.
 
Sonic said:
Sorry, I misinterpreted what you said. But, yes, the US should seek favorable things. There are probably quite a few different opinions on what would be favorable to the US as of right now.
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As they say. No harm, no foul.

Any Country should seek what is most favorable to them.


Hmmmm?

And to think China as a power house will be doing the same thing in the years to come, which will obviously interfere with what is favorable to the U.S.
Which brings about the question as to whether or not a Country has a right to use force to obtain those favorable conditions, and even to preemptively take down a powerhouse such as China to prevent them from infringing on future favorabilities.
 
Read your history books. The taliban have extremist views, they are still living in the 8th. century. They twist the tenets of their religion for political gain and are quite brutal about it as you already know. They are women haters just like the extreme right wing of the R party is with the likes of Romney-Ryan.

These religious extremists need to understand and wake up to the fact that time waits for no man, for no religion. Time marches on.
 
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