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Background on this story, demonstrating the level of organization in the Taliban's campaign against education. "New Taliban rules target Afghan teachers," by Jason Straziuso for Associated Press:
KABUL, Afghanistan - 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 full list can be found at SignAndSight.com.
They also contain a grave warning for aid workers and educators.
Rule No. 24 forbids anyone to work as a teacher "under the current puppet regime, because this strengthens the system of the infidels." One rule later, No. 25, says teachers who ignore Taliban warnings will be killed.
Taliban militants early Saturday broke into a house in the eastern province of Kunar, killing a family of five, including two sisters who were teachers.
The women had been warned in a letter to quit teaching, said Gulam Ullah Wekar, the provincial education director. Their mother, grandmother and a male relative were also slain in the attack.
The two sisters brought to 20 the number of teachers killed in Taliban attacks this year, said Education Ministry spokesman Zuhur Afghan. He said 198 schools have been burned down this year, up from about 150 last year.
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.
An addendum to the rules said they were distributed initially at a meeting of top Taliban leaders during Ramadan this year. The rules were signed by Mullah Omar, the fugitive Taliban leader and "the highest leader of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan," according to the document.
A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, confirmed the authenticity of the rules. He said aid organizations were not working for the Afghan people but for the policies of occupying countries. "If they won't stop their work we will target them, like we've targeted them in the past," he said.
Mohammad Hashim Mayar, the deputy direct of ACBAR — the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief — an oversight body for almost 100 aid organizations in Afghanistan, said the rules are no surprise.
"They've been practicing this in the past," Mayar said. "We already knew when they were burning schools, when they were killing people, we said that they were against education, and they are well aware of the importance of education."
The rules confirm a Taliban policy of undermining all forms of development that benefit ordinary Afghans and seem to sanction the targeting of civilians, said Maj. Luke Knittig, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force.
"The rules likely represent an attempt at indirect leadership by the Taliban in the face of increasingly hindered ability to lead directly and visibly," said Knittig, who said officials had no reason to doubt the authenticity of the rules, which are being circulated on various Web sites.
Other edicts focus inward on the Taliban command structure:
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Rule 19 says that mujahedeen may not take young boys without facial hair onto the battlefield — or into their private quarters, an attempt to stamp out the sexual abuse of young boys, a problem that is widely known in southern Afghanistan but seldom discussed.
"The rule regarding behavior toward young boys shows this has been a problem," Knittig said.
Posted by Marisol at December 10, 2006 7:34 AM
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No more pencils.
No more books.
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at December 10, 2006 8:30 AM
the problem with the taliban lies with its protector "pakistan", l say cut off all funds,aid to pakistand, bolster it with India, and bomb the crap out of the border of Pakistan. who the hell needs crapistan as an allie! we do not need pakis, go with the regions Democracy "India"!
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at December 10, 2006 8:55 AM
Maybe Bush and CIA should try talking to these guys...
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at December 10, 2006 10:05 AM
... talk to them, then beat them and then kill them, their families and any livestock they own.
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at December 10, 2006 10:06 AM
Sexual abuse of young boys? From the religion of such high moral fiber? I guess they were like uncovered meat.
Posted by: TEXROCK at December 10, 2006 10:15 AM
Taliban Rules a.k.a. The non-Bushido Code for the Islamonazis.
Cheers,
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at December 10, 2006 10:31 AM
19) Mujahideen are not allowed to take young boys with no facial hair onto the battlefield or into their private quarters.
well I guess it shows that this rule confirms that the Taliban and and their fighters excuse me to the Taliban terrorists are a bunch of queer bastards and pedophiles those not surprising their beloved prophet was one, as for teachers and destroying schools and NGOs that is not surprising a uneducated population that only can chant the Koran by rote not really knowing what it says are is much easier to keep under control by the Taliban and people tend to support those who support them so if the Taliban can keep the people illiterate and under control of the mullah in charge of the Taliban it becomes that much easier for them to control the country and keep it back as a medieval society. So to the teachers and aid workers are their enemies the USA needs to the same bombing campaign in did to chase the Taliban back into the hills
at December 10, 2006 10:35 AM
I never would have thought that Neanderthals such as these would be able to come up with rules of any kind other than kill and kill some more.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at December 10, 2006 11:11 AM
Truthfully, I have little or no sympathy for the Afghan people at this point. A moslem is a moslem, whether or not they are Taliban or with Karzai. I fully supported the Afghan war until the Abdul Rahman incident occured. Then I realized that, like the ungrateful Iraqi people, they never wanted democracy or freedom, they only wanted a slightly less crazy Islamic state. Even the so-called moderates were trying to murder one of their own whose only "crime" was daring to convert to Christianity some sixteen years before. Until Islam itself is recognized as the enemy and completely destroyed, the world will never know real peace or freedom. We will only have new, brief intermissions until the next muslim attack.
To those who think I'm being harsh or unfair, let me put it this way: If the Afghan people really wanted freedom and human dignity, the first thing they would have done would have been to throw off Islam, not re-embrace it.....
at December 10, 2006 11:23 AM
After reading this, is there any doubt that there is something seriously wrong with Islam ? It is a vile disease/religion . Muslims simply cannot be allowed to be left to their own devices, look at the results. Sunni V Shiite bloodbaths, Prehistoric nutjobs the Taliban want to destroy any non Sharia/Muslim books or teachings and kill anyone with an education above kindergarten it seems. Muslims all over the world suffering, and killing for their peaceful , tolerant religion and prophet, and the list goes ever on!!
But Muslims all around the world and especially in these lovely Tourist destinations will say that Islam is Peaceful etc...
It's so repulsive.
Posted by: Concerned Canadian at December 10, 2006 12:32 PM
the problem with the taliban lies with its protector "pakistan", l say cut off all funds,aid to pakistand, bolster it with India, and bomb the crap out of the border of Pakistan. who the hell needs crapistan as an allie! we do not need pakis, go with the regions Democracy "India"!
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess
We may not agree on the traitorous Bush, Z.. but we certainly are on the same page re. Pakiland and the Taliban.
I concur with you word for word. Only i have no faith Bush would EVER do what we all know must be done. That is where we disagree. I am holding out hope for the 2008 election. Either we get a leader who rolls up his sleeves and rights the ship or we drift further into the murky stranglehold of the islamists.
So Al Quaeda keeps jumping around the border and the Taliban is alive and well.
Yes indeed we should bolster India.. and encourage India to expell all moslems from Kashmir and to enact a Death Penalty for any moslems coming back in after expulsion. If they can do it in the sudeten then it can be done again. The reasons are similar.
Posted by: germaninamerica at December 10, 2006 12:33 PM
I never would have thought that Neanderthals such as these would be able to come up with rules of any kind other than kill and kill some more.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS
EXCUSE ME!! You are insulting the Neanderthals who lived a peaceful existence in Western Germany some 20,000 years ago. These hardy folk had nothing to do with the KKKoran.
Posted by: germaninamerica at December 10, 2006 12:36 PM
the taliban need to be destroyed. Show no mercy to the merciless.
Posted by: callmeinfidel at December 10, 2006 1:27 PM
IFL
GIA,
Sounds like a potential Geico commercial...
Cheers,
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at December 10, 2006 1:35 PM
Know Islam, no peace. No Islam, know peace.
Posted by: localmalcontent at December 10, 2006 1:37 PM
talk to them, then beat them and then kill them, their families and any livestock they own.
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses
Why would you want to kill their livestock? Are their animals terrorists too? That's a bit silly and over the top.
I'm not surprised they're molesting boys, as that seems to be the norm in Islamic culture since they're not permitted to have relations with the opposite sex. I also hear they run off when confronted by our troops and don't retrieve their dead and wounded. They're such cowards and our troops are laughing at them. It's also quite common to capture them covered with lice.
Posted by: Bonniea at December 10, 2006 1:54 PM
Ah but Afghanistan is a success story, sez George Bush and the neo cons.
Then again we are (were) winning (what I ask) in Iraq.
There can be no victory in Afghanistan or Iraq, no mission complete either, because we are not fighting a state, a government, and against uniformed armies.. there is no one, party, no group, that can surrender.. hence no victory is possible.
We are engaged in a life and death struggle with a vicious, intolerant ideology that poses as a religion.. and the only way to defeat it is to use it's own tactics, the tactics it used to gain control of the Arabian Peninsula and the world from the Atlantic into India and Asia. And that means wholesale slaughter, and execution of all religious scholars, and religous leaders and judges, as well as the complete destruction of all Islamic literature and symbols..
The Khaybar Medina Hindi Sindh solution turned back on the authors.
Posted by: Nariz at December 10, 2006 2:24 PM
With those thirty rules, the Taliban is edging closer and closer to becoming a full fledged bureauracy. They are sure to collapse now. Let's just wait.
If rule 31 contains the instuctions for filling out an expense report, it will be just a matter of time before the rules get in the way of the jihad. I guess they would call it green tape?
Posted by: Pelayo at December 10, 2006 2:31 PM
"The two sisters brought to 20 the number of teachers killed in Taliban attacks this year, said Education Ministry spokesman Zuhur Afghan. He said 198 schools have been burned down this year, up from about 150 last year..."
real islam for real people. (are they?)
Yes this is spiritual enlightenment--to return people to the dark ages and murder those who dare to learn!
But, when you think of it--it's really just another CULTURE. OK, slightly different than our own--but equal to our own, we must admit. So what if we have to hold our noses a litte--it's only a little islam, right?
at December 10, 2006 2:50 PM
EXCUSE ME!! You are insulting the Neanderthals who lived a peaceful existence in Western Germany some 20,000 years ago. These hardy folk had nothing to do with the KKKoran.
Posted by: germaninamerica at December 10, 2006 12:36 PM
I am filled with shame. Two legged cockroaches would probably be a better way to describe the Taliban.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at December 10, 2006 3:06 PM
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY ALERT:
If you own a phony beard factory, you might want to target Afganistan as a marketing opportunity now.
Posted by: GrimReaperxxx at December 10, 2006 3:14 PM
From the article:
The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules
True. And when the Afghans train another group of terrorists who crash airliners into skyscrapers, they will only be following the instructions of their holy book, the Qur'an. No big whoop. They've already warned us infidels several times to embrace Islam, which we've ignored, so Allah specifies what their next step must be.
A.I. Steamroller said
Truthfully, I have little or no sympathy for the Afghan people at this point.
What I don't understand is why we would have EVER had ANY sympathy for the Afghan people. The attacks of 9/11 were apparently interpreted as some sort of Islamic Welcome Wagon, to be responded to with huge donations of cash and troops deployed to rebuild (well, actually, build) their bridges, schools, water treatment plants, and roads. I can only assume that future historians will label this chapter "WTF?".
Posted by: special_guest at December 10, 2006 3:34 PM
I am quite new here and you probably won't like what i say. As believer of the Bible I agree that there are extreames on both sides of the planet.
But I think people are being overly insulting about certain things and kind of gives me the impression of your angers sounding ignornant to the point where your language is no different to the situation or society you oppose of. Not like they are nicer back towards the West anyway, that is undersatndable. But I get the feeling people get so wrapped up with Islamic issues and we get so judgemental that I can not tell the difference beween the species so to speak. Please be more constructive as I think even the people here are beginning to make the level minded people look bad, level minded as in less insulting language.
I agree some stories are bad to read makes you angry maybe, but you are just the people watching and reading these things and if you feel passionate then complain some about some issues for real not just here. If political correctness rocks your Christmas socks then write letters to the people who have lost their senses.
I am not against anyone but feel certain energies sound as bad as those london protesters who say 'Kill Infedels' on their board signs.
Posted by: jesusisthelamb at December 10, 2006 4:18 PM
I am not against anyone but feel certain energies sound as bad as those london protesters who say 'Kill Infedels' on their board signs.
Posted by: jesusisthelamb
We are saying what we say in REACTION to those lovely folks. By the way they are hlding up their "kill infidels" board signs in ENGLAND!!!! Among other WESTERN nations. WE have NOWHERE else to go. These folks can always go home if theydon;t like life among us "unclean" infidels.
THAT is a HUGE difference between them and us. How many of us have you seen standing aroun holding us board signs that say KILL MOSLEMS on them?? We'd either be arrested or lynched if we did.
And that in OUR OWN LANDS!!!!
That is the outrage that people are expressing here.
Jesus may the the lamb. But a mighty Lion teaming up with the Eagle, the Bulldog and the Elephant would truly be the Bee's knees as far as I am concerned!!!!
Lamb = Dhimmi. NOT FOR ME!!!
Posted by: germaninamerica at December 10, 2006 4:37 PM
"Rule 19 says that mujahedeen may not take young boys without facial hair onto the battlefield — or into their private quarters, an attempt to stamp out the sexual abuse of young boys, a problem that is widely known in southern Afghanistan but seldom discussed."
"Mahmoud, is that a whisker on your chin? Yes it is! Brothers, Mahmoud is growing a whisker! Praise be to Allah. We must celebrate! Let us go to my private quarters..."
Posted by: USBeast at December 10, 2006 5:52 PM
germaninamerica
Lamb = Dhimmi. NOT FOR ME!!!
Hi there, just saying Jesus is the lamb sounds like 'Jesus is Islam' which is not so Jesus is the lamb. Hope people don't get me wrong.
I did not know what a dhimmi was, I must be a bit dim. :-) But now I know.
Yes we are not as bad as the protesters but I have to admit I am a little concerned about sites like this, see fear by irrational people who get highrate over their definition of peace. I am suprised no one has mentioned it's a religion of pieces, if you don't obey you will be in two maybe more. :-)
But I am just concerned that with so many confused minds that could be reading some our comments will make the individual creative controlled parts of the mind confused and creativity becomes a 'blue peter' (UK CHILDRENS SHOW) on how to make a toy that you blow up. But using balloons of course. I admit we have freedoms to express but even in our countries its unsafe to have such views. It's sad and if the governments want a tollerant society then they should have tollerant people. If 50,000 well known NAZI's decided to imigrate to the UK would we be democratic in open arms? I doubt it as a people but as a government its not suprising they probably would and have.
TONY BLAIR should go to Afgahnistan and say,
'EDUCATION'
'EDUCATION'
'EDUCATION'
:-)
at December 10, 2006 6:00 PM
Localmalcontent said "Know Islam, no peace. No Islam, know peace".
This should be on billboards throughout the world.
Nice one
Posted by: g hadi hater at December 10, 2006 6:01 PM
Jesusthelamb, welcome! I see your point, but I have to side with Germaninamerica's comment to you. I'm a born again Christian too, and believe what Jesus taught in goodness, etc. However, we posters here on Jihad Watch are aware of the enemy and know it's only a matter of time before they are attacking us on our own soil once again. If we do what Jesus told us to do by turning the other cheek, we will be exterminated. So, what is the answer? The Bible also foretold these times to us that we are living in now and told us to get ready for him when we see the signs of prophecy, part of which said the descendants of Ishmael will cause the final battle. I will not stand by and allow my country to be dominated or ruled by Islam, and neither should you.
Posted by: Bonniea at December 10, 2006 7:06 PM
jesusisthelamb--
If you are new to the site, you need to spend a couple days to see what goes on everyday that is recorded on Jihad Watch (JW).
However, I will say that you have one quote above that I am going to steal:
"it's a religion of pieces, if you don't obey you will be in two maybe more."----nice.
There are many people of faith and people of no faith on here---and everything in between. One thing that is agreed here--islam is a curse.
We know saying that will not make any muslim happy--but that is not the point. The point is you can never make them happy--short of your converting to islam (and in our case renouncing the lamb). Islam as a religion-- it is a piece.
Posted by: BB at December 10, 2006 9:49 PM
Sounds like the ACLU and NAMBLA are making headway with thes perverts. Or maybe it is the other way around.
Posted by: TexasInfidel at December 10, 2006 10:39 PM
TONY BLAIR should go to Afgahnistan and say,
'EDUCATION'
'EDUCATION'
'EDUCATION'
How about
"Death to those who behead teachers"
"Death to those who slay school principals"
"Death to those , who through terror tactics , force hundreds of schools to close"
"Death to those who slay the people trying to distribute school supplies"
" Death to those who , through terror tactics, deny women any education"
Yes, I agree Mr Blair should be talking.
at December 11, 2006 9:06 AM
Bonniea - I said that remark about destroying 'any livestock they may own' as an over-the-top bit of hyperbole but what I really intend to say is: destroy the fighters, their support system and their means of support.
It's not enough to simply destroy the active fighters. Those who support the active fighters must also pay the price. All networks supporting the active fighters need to be destroyed: financial, institutional and otherwise.
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at December 11, 2006 10:18 AM
Who is supplying weapons to all the major players?
Try Russia, N.Korea, China,Pakistan,Egypt,Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran.
Slay the head of the snake.
Posted by: exsgtbrown at December 11, 2006 10:26 AM
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