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Child Interrupted

ehsan syed January 14, 2008

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#3 Posted by netengr on January 19, 2008 1:07:34 am
please check this out


http://www.fazliazeem.com/research/pathanresearch.htm


http://ww-iii.n etfirms.com/mullahomar.htm

http://afghanprofile.net/index.php?option=com_cont ent&task=view&id=209&Itemid=27

http://hujra.forumwise.com/hujra-t hread1033.html

http://www.dangoor.com/74069.html

A Jewish site about dajjal (Their Masaya talk about pathans claims their brothers)

http://www.moshiach.com/features/tribes/afghanistan.php

http://w ww.moshiach.com/features/tribes/are-the-pathans-jewish.php


http://members.a ol.com/pashtuns/losttribes.html


Wikipedia says about pathans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pashtun_Mafia






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#2 Posted by fuzair on January 16, 2008 7:30:08 am
"playing “Shiite Militia versus Sunni terrorists” game, where they pretend to kill each other with toy guns. This is not a normal behaviour. It indicates that they have become desensitized to violence, dehumanized the perceived enemy and has a much distorted style of coping with stress of exposure to violence."

This is absolute BS. What the children are doing is perfectly normal behavior. Haven't you eminent psychiatrists heard of, e.g., American children playing "Cowboys and Indians?" Heck, even we played at being cowboys in Pakistan; growing up I remember getting a Cowboy Hat and a Gunbelt with a toy revolver as a birthday present. We also played Muslims and Hindus; only problem was that none of my friends wanted to be the bad guys!

Nowadays, I'm sure, eminent pyschiatrists discourage children from playing such games but they've been played since time immemorial. I'm sure that other children elsewhere play similar games.

While child soldiers and violence against children is a very serious problem, ridiculous statements as the above simply weaken the author's argument.
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#1 Posted by laddu on January 16, 2008 2:14:49 am
All these totalitarian ideologies are sick.......

they not only kill physically - they destroy the free souls...

Islam and Communism are prime examples of these soul destroying ideologies....
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