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Mystery Man
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You should play more hard to get 
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Mystery Man
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you're gay?
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rambling man
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The scary thing is that I don't think India will sit around and wait for genocide like Britain and France did in the thirties. Afghanistan may be seeing 800 million pissed off Indians scampering across their borders in the next couple of years. Afghanistan is lucky India is downwind of them or they might get a nuclear surprise.
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I forget,
Is Afganistan on the UN Human Rights Commission?
We may need to boot Sweden off to get them on, eh?
Is Afganistan on the UN Human Rights Commission?
We may need to boot Sweden off to get them on, eh?
R Nitelight
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Taliban Slams World Powers for Attacking Ruling on Hindus
Thursday, May 24, 2001
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The ruling Taliban on Thursday criticized what it called a "propaganda drive" by world powers over its decision to require Hindus to wear a yellow identity patch, saying the move is aimed at protecting the religious minority.
"It is unfortunate that some countries, for their selfish interests, are attacking" the Taliban for the decision, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Taliban-run Radio Kabul.
On Tuesday, the Taliban announced it planned to require Hindus to wear identification patches to distinguish them from Muslims. The move -- reminiscent of a Nazi policy that required European Jews to wear yellow Stars of David -- has been harshly criticized by several countries including the United States, Russia, Germany and Hindu-dominated India.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer on Thursday called the Taliban decision "unjustifiable" and "serious discrimination."
The Taliban rejected the criticism.
"The move is not meant to harm or humiliate Hindus," Mohammed Wali, the Taliban minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, was quoted as saying. "It is for their own safety and to protect them" from the religious police enforcing Islamic law, he said.
Thursday, May 24, 2001
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The ruling Taliban on Thursday criticized what it called a "propaganda drive" by world powers over its decision to require Hindus to wear a yellow identity patch, saying the move is aimed at protecting the religious minority.
"It is unfortunate that some countries, for their selfish interests, are attacking" the Taliban for the decision, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Taliban-run Radio Kabul.
On Tuesday, the Taliban announced it planned to require Hindus to wear identification patches to distinguish them from Muslims. The move -- reminiscent of a Nazi policy that required European Jews to wear yellow Stars of David -- has been harshly criticized by several countries including the United States, Russia, Germany and Hindu-dominated India.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer on Thursday called the Taliban decision "unjustifiable" and "serious discrimination."
The Taliban rejected the criticism.
"The move is not meant to harm or humiliate Hindus," Mohammed Wali, the Taliban minister for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, was quoted as saying. "It is for their own safety and to protect them" from the religious police enforcing Islamic law, he said.
