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Subscribe to RSSAs urban youths embrace the holiday banned by the Taliban, one group is banking on love, or at least marriage, to help end violence in Afghanistan. NBC News' Mandy Clark reports.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Suliman and Farzana Sharifi’s marriage is very unusual in Afghanistan.
The 23-year-olds have a love match in a country where most weddings are arranged. That fact makes Valentine’s Day, a holiday banned by the Taliban but embraced by many of the country’s urban youth, extra-special for the two.
Both work hard to surprise each other on Valentine's Day, which they've celebrated for the three years they've been together.
“I don’t let him know, he doesn’t let me know," said Farzana, a university student who heads up an Islamic NGO that runs orphanages throughout the country. "Like a month before Valentine’s day we act that we don’t know it is Valentine’s Day. So, we normally surprise each other.”
This isn’t just a game – the couple believe that love is simply more powerful than hate, and it could be a weapon in ending the insurgency.
“When love comes even the Taliban can’t stop anybody,” Farzana adds.
But can love really stop Taliban fighters in other parts of the war-torn country?
An American charity put money on it. Getting married in Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, is very expensive. Women’s families can demand dowries of up to $10,000 from prospective husbands, Qasimi said. With the average Afghan earning less than $500 a year, these demands make marriage and family unachievable for many.
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More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.
With the help of local NGOs, Texas-based Comfort Aid International helped organize a mass wedding of 38 couples last year.
“We did this to prevent our youth from joining the Taliban side. They often join the Taliban because they are single and poor,” local organizer Sayeed Saleh Qasimi said.
That’s were Comfort Aid steps in – it has helped arrange the weddings for more than 1,000 couples already. Local organizations it works with have negotiated with local families to agree to more reasonable dowry prices.
One young husband, Sayeed Hussaini, says he simply wouldn’t have been able to get married without the charity’s help.
“Everyone wants things in life, like getting married,” the unemployed construction worker said. “But a lot of people are doing bad things for money like joining the Taliban.”
He added: “I am jobless but I will not join them.”
Hussaini's new wife Fatima is the reason he won’t risk his life.
She says she’s grateful for the charity’s help in easing their financial woes, which allowed the couple to marry.
So perhaps Farzana is right to hope that love can conquer war.
“I think love can change anything,” she said, turning to her husband Suliman. “Yeah, yeah it changed you, it changed me.”
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This story was originally published on Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:25 AM EST
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"Like a month before Valentine’s day we act that we don’t know it is Valentine’s Day. So, we normally surprise each other.”"
This is known as living in fantasy island!
A few can afford to do it privately. And media can take a microscope and focus on one or few incidents as if it is being done by many.
Openly it is very costly to oppose Taliban and other Islamists operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In most of the Islamic terrorism and plots in the US, Britain, Europe and other places, Pakis have a hand.
Half of NATO forces deaths in Afghanistan are due to Pakis.
Before followers of Islamic cult set their feet on Afghan and Paki regions, these regions were quite peaceful and prosperous.
Once the cancer of Islam gradually got control of the region, those regions have become raping, stealing, looting and killing fields.
In Afghanistan, Paki proxies Taliban did not even tolerate Buddha’s statue in Bamiyan.
Many Paki areas and some Afghan areas have become breeding and exporting centers for illegal activities including drugs growing and trading and export of Islamic radicals and terrorists all over the world.
After NATO forces pull out from Afghanistan, one can bet: Afghanistan and Pakistan will be worst hating and killing fields.
When the mean old men finally die off, the young will have a chance to live.
Love can conquer the Taliban? A well-placed bullet would do a better job.
Omigosh! What a unique idea. This is wonderful! The Taliban mentality is obsolete by at least 500 years. I'm glad there is hope for the young people in this poor country.
You know of this young chap, wossname...Alexander...I guess he must have been some sort of warmongering Muslim, 2000 years before the world had ever heard of Islam.
For long periods of time, the region has been wartorn and full of strife and for long periods, it has also known peace. This was before Islam came along and it was the same after. Your particular hatred for Islam doesn't change anything.
In general, religion neither makes you better nor worse. It tends to explain your nature, so if you are evil, your evilness will be expressed through your religion, such as Hitler's, Osama bin Laden's, the nastiness of wartorn Europe in the Dark Ages, and the like. If you are good, such as one of the Christian or Islamic saints, it will likewise be expressed through your religion.
So religion is pretty much superfluous; it is neither good nor evil, or for that matter, necessary.
I wish they were right, but I doubt it, considering the women and couples who have been stoned by them (and by others) for loving each other.
Jonathan is against it so I'm on board! Like most articles, you make some caustic comment then copy and paste the dire situation rant from one of your other posts.
Living in an island sounds terrible, I would rather live on it. You obviously haven't been in a relationship or it's been such a long time that you've forgotten what it's like. Little games like this are fun to play with your significant other. Yes Jonathan, despite your consistently negative posts some of us can still have fun :)
Byron Raum -
Considering some of the people that sainthood has been granted to, particularly that sick, twisted @!$%#er Augustine, I wouldn't consider using sainthood as a marker for "good Christians."
I'd say look more to the nuns, who have recently given @!$%#-all about the pope and his men wearing dresses and said "we're going to continue helping the poor, and we're not going to discriminate against gay people or women needing and abortion or whatever you have a bug up your butt for now."
Ain't love grand...when's the stoning ?
Spoken like a true dhimmi, Byron.
Funny how in an article about Islam, posters immediately jump to criticizing Christianity. Are you people just stupid or what?
The answer is no. Bring them all home now.
The young needs to arm themselves with a full array of ordinance to combat the Taliban for the purpose of erasing them from the earth. The statement about the Killing fields is exactly what is to come. In a country where the chasm in between the wealthy and poor is so great, the people like the Taliban and communism has a free ride to gaining support.
The ideas of arranged marriages needs to be removed from the culture. If you want to see a stoning of a star struck couple in love google Stoning and Islam to see the love of Allah's laws.
Lazarus
riverboy: Why don't you people at least take a look at Iraq before commenting?
Have Iraqis become worse or better in Iraq despite two wars?
More than million were killed in Iraq.
The fate of Afghanistan and Pakistan will be similar or worse.
But one good thing is that likes of you and US, British, French, German and allies' corrupt/brainless/biased politicians and headless military advisors can't decide in future the events going in Afghanistan and Pakistan as in the past.
Byron: Alexander was defeated and met his end in the current Afghan region.
Jonathan, I never said Iraq is better off or Afghanistan is will be better off, and I don't believe they will be either. I agree with what you say, but this article isn't about that. It's about hope and people who have the courage to risk their life for love in a very dangerous country, but you come here and start posting about other countries and all the evil occuring. You should have just said you salute these two for their courage in the face of evil instead of insulting them for having that courage.
riverboy21: 1. Do I need to take permission from you to post realities? Has US become some Muslim nation?
2. There are limits even to "hopes". Conditions in some regions like Afghanistan and Pakistan are hopeless. If you know the history of those regions, you would not be making your comments.
3. When we see an issue(s), we have to study and make comments in the larger context. We should not act like the Bush and his team, military advisors and lobbyists of oil rich Sunni rulers led by House of Saud. When they saw the money and favors, they went into Iraqi war without knowing much about Afghanistan and Iraq. All that mattered were money and short term interests.
4. You are trying to dictate how I should post. Do you believe in freedom of expression? Are we under some Muslim rulers like House of Saud, Kuwait and co or Pakistan and Afghanistan?
5. As we move on, those with mindsets like those of Bush, some Islamic nuts like House of Saud, Iranian Ayotollahs, will not be able to determine the future course of actions like in the past with Iraqi wars, wars to invent/save House of Saud and so on. Just wait and watch!
Love? In Afghanistan where they stone their women to death? Happy Valetines day honey, this Rock is just for you.
Tarzan....priceless!
You mock the situation, but you are not far off the mark either. I recently got home from there and my advice is to anyone going over there is do not make friends there. I would hand candy out to the children and they instantly turned into liberals because they would expect it the next time I came back and if I did not have any candy, they would throw rocks. Something about that candy they turned them into liberals.....weird
gotta love Islam...or die.
Why don't the Shiites and Sunnis Valentine's day in Syria?
Also those dhimmis on the payroll of oil rich Sunni rulers like House of Saud can also join them.
Yes, they love to hate.
They lived through a brutal Soviet invasion and occupation in which entire villages were erased. Then a 10-year civil war as the Taliban took control. Now another decade long invasion and occupation. Some 30 years of nothing but war. What do you think that does to people? Produce liberal art majors? Sure criticise them all you want and be glad you have the luxury to do so from the quiet comfort of your home.
Excellent points, standingwave. I am sick of people making pronouncements about other societies without considering what they have been through.
This is an article about two people showing love and tenderness to each other in a country struggling to overcome its divisive past....and commentators go and make snotty, disparaging comments.
We hear so much about the Taliban and the radicals. We do not hear much about what the normal, regualr people think and believe. I am so glad they ran this article. It shows another side and that not everyone there is for the Taliban and even if they are, they are almost forced into it. The people there live in fear and poverty. If you think you are afraid of the Taliban, imagine how they feel. To the people out there standing up against the Taliban - Don't ever give up and don't ever give in. There are people here rooting for you. I wish you all luck and a Happy Valentines Day.
standing: Thank You! I truly can not imagine living in a war zone. There are children on this planet that have never known peace. Everyday the threat of death and injury, the hatred and fear-I just can't imagine it. And then when people try to leave they have no safe refuge or they are put into 'camps' with no food or water.
I understand where all of you are coming from and I felt that exact same way until I went over there. I used to feel compassion and empathy for all those people and I still do for some of them, but I also realized that the wars they have been fighting were largely brought on by themselves.
Well said StandingWave, very similar to points made by General McChrystal in his book.
Corky, you don't state if you were over there as a soldier or not. I assume you weren't because I have never heard a soldier take your viewpoint about the Afghani civilians before. All the Generals to have command in Afghanistan would also disagree with you.
I just got back a few months ago from my 2nd tour over there as a soldier. I am willing to assume a large majority of the military forces over there felt some sort of empathy towards the civilians there, but that feeling died out after a while.
One example that I give is when I would meet little kids on the street I would give them candy. The next day, if I did not have any candy to hand out to the same kids, they would be throwing rocks at us. That is just one small example, but I use it because it to give an idea to those back home here about their culture and I believe its shows the bigger picture of how their culture actually is over there.
As I said, I am willing to guess a majority of the soldiers over there would agree with me. Maybe not all, but a majority
The wars Afghanistan have been fighting have been brought on by themselves? That has to be the dumbest statement I have ever heard regarding afghanistan. You may have been over there Corky, but you obviously have no clue what you are talking about. How did they bring the soviet invasion on themselves? We armed people like osama bin ladin to get rid of the Soviets and then left the country at the mercy of these armed crazies after we got what we wanted. How did they bring that on themselves? The irony of your statement, is that we are actually fighting a war over there right now that we brought on ourselves by just worrying about our short term goals and showing no regard for Afghanistan or the big picture.
Sadly, if any country is fighting wars brought on by themselves right now, it is us.
Oh, boo hoo, Standing and homesick. Whose fault was Muslim violence before the Soviets or the US or Israel even existed, you know, like the fist 1,200 years or so? Muslims say that their blood lust is always the fault of someone else. If you went to a therapist for 1,400 years and always blamed your problems on someone else, do you have a clue what your therapist would say to you? Yes, I think you do.
Pray Hard is correct, though his post has absolutely nothing to do with the reason Russia invaded Afghanistan or StandingWave's post. In case you didn't know Russia was already in Afghanistan before there was a war with Islamists, they were attempting to help Afghanistan create the "People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan"(communism). The United States, United Kingdom, China, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan all helped train and arm this new Islamist army called the "Mujahideen" to fight against the Russians and Afghani government. Here is Islam's first conquest, quite young compared to other nations/nationalities/religions.
However, every country has a bloody past including our own country and including Russia's bloody past that actually pre-dates Islam's bloody past. Mussolini may have been a monster and a tyrant, but he spoke no truer words when he said "Blood alone moves the wheels of history."
Really? 1200 years ago? year 632? These are examples you guys use to paint muslims as brutal? Hmmm if we look back in the last 60 years in the US we can see brutal racism and Jim Crowe laws, 150 years - slavery, last 400 year - a genocide of Native Americans whose deaths in sheer numbers due to our policies outnumber those of the holocaust. (Last line to be read in the Whiney voice of pray hard) Yeah, but thats us and I don't want to talk about what we do. We are christians so our wrongs are right.
Since you brought up Israel, I think it is worth noting that jews were treated a million times better than blacks in the United States in most of the Arab countries until Israel was created. The creation of Israel helped fuel islamic extremism and nationalism thus creating many conflicts, which, once again, we brought on ourselves.
I love how we as a country get so upset at the idea of illegal immigration from mexico, yet we don't see why muslims should have a problem with the immigration of millions of European Jews, and the taking of their lands. Imagine if the mexicans decided they were going to take US land, and the rights were granted by the UN because they lived their hundreds of years ago. Would we accept it? Hell no, and we would have already forced them out because we have superior firepower. The muslims tried to force them out and failed, but it doesn't mean it was right just because the muslim weaponry was inferior. I used to support israel blindly like most other Americans until I actually read the history, and then I understood exactly why the muslims were so pissed. They have a right to be. This isn't ancient history, this is modern history and the wounds inflicted are on those that are still living. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but at least go out and try to find the truth instead of accepting the story which makes you feel the best. Try to look at things as a whole, and not just from your point of view. It doesn't mean you hate your country, it just means that you are informed.
standingwave: Islamists of Afghanistan and Pakistan asked for their problems and they are getting them with compound interest.
Don't worry: NATO forces withdrawal is not the end. Instead it is beginning of another rounds of hating and killing.
Northern Alliance and those opposed to Taliban are going to hit back.
This time, there will not be the US, Britain, France, Germany and others to save them.
riverboy: You are floating too much in rivers. Hope the rivers are not of Pakistan, the dirtiest swamp on earth.
Jonathan & Tarzan - shut up. You add nothing you hateful pigs. I thought this story was nice and it's inspiring to hear about little things like this in a country so rot with war and poverty. Good luck to them and good luck to the honest people of Afghanistan. I do hope Love prevails in the end and peace and prosperity can flourish :)
My thoughts, exactly, Sara!
your in wonderland Alice,,,,
Sara,
Honorable ideology but I don't think this world will ever be wholly one or the other.
"shut up. You add nothing you hateful pigs."
" I do hope Love prevails in the end and peace and prosperity can flourish :)"
As you must know, given the content of your retort, love and hate reside in all humans in an epic endless battle that has spanned our entire existence. One cannot exist without the other. Without people like Johnathan & Tarzan to act as a sort of window display of hate and stupidity, we would not be able to recognize the behavior for childly foolishness. We need these wack jobs so we are reminded that we should strive to be better people.
Troy- Very cute. We can be better. We will be better. We should just all get along. Lets be friends.....Cute
Sara-
I understand you like this story and that is cute as well, but maybe you should take it easy on people like Jonathan and Tarzan. Maybe they have lost a few good men in Afghanistan to a backwards culture filled with hatefull people hellbent on destroying beautiful things. So forgive them if they do not hold the same naive love that you hold in your heart and they are fedup with the backwards Afghan culture.
Yeah, criticize other people for not falling for the faux feel good baloney of this article. What, they don't stone their women to death? What is not true about that statement? They also throw acid on little school girls. They also shoot them in the head. They also hang gay men. Shall I continue? I can go on for a very long time about the religiously and culturally sanctioned atrocities perpetrated against women and children in this savage, hell hole country. Pull your kumbahya heads out of your rear ends.
Islam is poison.
SaraRW: Don't call me a Pig, you Cow. I agree with PRAY-HARD 662027. He hit the nail on the head.
Sara,
If only you were the great Fairy Princess of Rainbow land. You could just wave your magic wand and make all those nasty people go away.
The reality is that Islam has not only been preserved in its original form by a society of illiterate people because of its built in protection(Kill and destroy everything else), but after the Ottoman Empire was expanded throughout the known world, it was also protected by the European powers because of the possible potential for Bankers and investors to get rich.
The last and final death throws of the Great Library of Alexandria was put to the same destruction as the library of Timbuktu recently. The story goes that when the great leader of the Muslims was told about the library he said, "Either the contents will verify Islam which is Heresy, or it will dispute Islam, either way it needs to be destroyed".
The reality of Islam is that All other cultures are required to be destroyed and only the one true religion will remain under the pain of death. As soon as the world realizes these are not just words as we think about the Christian religions, perhaps we will still be able to stop its spread. Go to the news site for Malaysia, the single largest Muslim population on Earth and you will see the effects of a religious dominated country. The world is 50 percent Muslims now by their accounts and they hope the sooner the total world converts the better.
So, Sara, stop and smell the roses, tiptoe through the daisies, roll another joint, and have another smoke, because if Islam comes to a neighborhood near you, every freedom you love will be gone.
Lazarus
LOVE always overcomes HATE in the long run.
JESUS sacrifice on the cross as the LAMB OF GOD was the ultimate example of GOD's LOVE toward mankind, to take upon himself (JESUS) the penalty for SIN (DEATH), as a SINLESS SACRIFICE.
Those who accept that sacrifice of JESUS as LORD, are SAVED through GRACE.
LOVE conquers all...
Let's hope they can find someone to give them that long run, other than us. Yes it sounds like I am lacking some love, yeah I am okay with that.
AJC, my husband is atheist, I am agnostic. We LOVE each other and have been faithfully married for over 25 years.....Jesus had nothing to do with it. Nor does he have anything to do with this article.
Your agnostic views and husband's atheists views has nothing to do with this article but yet you shared, so who cares.
Like this young couple Jesus believed that Love would conquer all. That's how he came to say, "Eloi! Eloi, lama sabach-thani". God, as opposed to the projected and personified ethical theriomorph the Pauline heresy has promoted these two thousand years, is not the saccharine "love" of valentine's day but Caring. Caring, first and foremost is justice and justice, contrary to the magical thinking inherent of a bronze-age cosmology, is not magical, but hard, tedious, dangerous and sometimes bloody work. Also, contrary to all the advocates of violence in this thread, the primary arena in which it is worked out is not on some external battlefield but within each of our minds.
Actually, their views show that people of different faiths can live in harmony and love, which is also the theme of this article.
To answer this question: pretty much anyone who reads this article, and even you, who feel it necessary to thrust your alleged uncaring in all our faces.
AJC, tell it to the Muslims or get over yourself and your sanctimonious pontification.
Sex does take the fight right out of you! Only if you could do it 24/7!
lol. That's what Afganistan needs...a national weekend block party/orgy fest. I bet they wouldn't go back to killin' for at least a month. Don't tell me those are evil thoughts that muslims do not have either...the muslim men literally dream about 72 virgin orgys...its part of their religion.
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They do ... on the weekends ... with little boys, little girls and livestock.
The Taliban, love to fight.
And live to hate.
And lose.
Which Taliban?, the one in Afghanistan or the one that Boener rules over?
George gets the douche award
George,
You are totally right about Bohner. How dare anyone try and get in the way of Obamas logic?!?!
President Obama ordered the cabinet to cut $100,000,000.00 ($100 million) from the $3,500,000,000,000.00 ($3.5 trillion) federal budget.
I'm so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same thing with my personal budget. I spend about $2,000 a month on groceries, household expenses, medicine, utilities, etc., but it's time to get out the budget cutting axe, go through my expenses, and cut back.
I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the same ratio (1/35,000) of my total budget. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2,000 a month, I'm going to have to cut that number by six cents. Yes, I'm going to have to get by with $1999.94, but that's what sacrifice is all about.
I'll just have to do without some things, that are, frankly, luxuries, six cents worth.
Who does Bohner think he is?!?! It seems to me like Obamas logic is bulletproof, but those darn right wing people are always trying to force their fiscal responsibility on us aren't they?!?! Darn those responsible right wing people. They just ruin all the fun for the liberals....
I hope love can conquer. I would love to see us out of that country yesterday.
Yes, love is powerful, but look what did to us back in the '60's. Love---Peace---Sex---and drugs. All we need is love la da da da da da.
It all depends on what you believe love is not.
It's an exciting time for a young girl, those golden years between her amateur clitorectomy and her beheading in the old soccer stadium, when she meets some young guy who wipes his butt with one hand and caresses the outside of her body tent with the other.
If they find love, and put aside their hate of education, music, dancing, walking around with a bedsheet on and happiness in general, the mullah's will see to it that they are tortured.
Ahhhhh....young love.
LMFAO
Damn, Steve, that was the best one yet. And, notice that no one has the balls to take issue with you.
More power to this couple. For thousands of years, the Middle East has lived and cultivated hatred. Those who are viewed as an obsticle to the spread of their beliefs are hated and considered enemies. It is through that hatred that they justify killing the enemy. Until that mentality is changed, there isn't much hope for a solution to the issues that exist in that part of the world.
There is no reasonable response to fanatic religions like Taliban. The religion is generations away from being safe to the rest of the general population. Their ideas are taught from birth and should be treated as a terrorist organization instead of a religion. The US didn't recognize Jim Jones religion and shouldn't recognize Muslim extremism. It's time for them to leave the 10th century.
America needs to stop kissing the asses of Muslim groups whose only alliance is to some fake God who promises all the men 72 virgins when he dies. I guess the women get to be virgins again when they dir to eternally serve some man who has just killed himself and probably others, for his religion.
The Taliban is not a religion - it is and is treated like a terrorist group. Muslim is a religion and in that religion suicide is wrong and so is murdering innocents such as unarmed people, women and children. A Martyr is someone who goes into battle knowing he will die in battle against armed men. Killing unarmed people, women and children is still wrong according to their religion. There is a lot of hate and violence in the christian book too. Up until the second testament anyway.
Crystal,
I am willing to guess that you might have taken a college class on this and your professors told you all about how Islam is such a peaceful religion.
Or maybe, you have a friend who says she is Muslim and has told you how peaceful and loving it really is.
In many instances you may be right, but I can promise you the Koran may not be as friendly and peaceful as you may think. The Taliban get their logic from Koran. They are a terrorist organization, but their work is solely based off of the Koran and killing women and children is sometimes called upon by the Koran depending on the situation.
You are correct on the bible part. The old testament is nasty sometimes. I am Catholic and I have a hard time reading the old testament because it is very vengeful, nasty, and may not pertain to today. The difference between Christians and Muslims though is that Christians do not practice some of the impractical nasty teachings of the old testament, whereas there are a compelling number of Muslims willing to committ Jihad for the sake of their religion
Crystal, take your Muslim taqiyya somewhere else. Nobody believes it here except the dhimmi idiots. The evidence is contrary to what you say.
They don't show any love in that country! Hate? ho! yes, a lot of it.
I love you so much, that I am going to kill you. Taliban Happy Valentines Day Card
I love you Americans so much..BOOM!! Taliban Happy Valentines Day Card
My fear after reading the article is that in the not too distant future, we will read about the 'Valintine couple' being eliminated by the Taliban. The Taliban cannot afford individuals actually living to love another human being. Far better to kill and oppress one another.
I just checked and this is NOT April Fools Day. What is really funny that some people actually believe this. Well go to Afghanistan and spread your Love around if you really feel that way. They hate you and everyone else that do not believe what they do. You won't be coming back so say your good-byes now. Oblivious......
Just a heads up for those of you who thought this article was touching...The vast majority of people in Afghanistan are Muslim and since Valentine's Day would be a Christian Holiday (Named after Saint Valentinus) I am willing to bet, that much like Cupid, this story is fictional.
Lots of atheists and agnostics also celebrate St. Valentine's day. Not sure why you think Muslim lovers would not want to.
Sheesh, Byron, GET A BRAIN!
A---rand? "look what it did to us int he 60s? it enlightened a generation, it was squashed by the extreme right and the murder of four students at Kent state University by armed troops against kids with flowers. . If only those days could come back. maybe they are.
Ahh, the leftist are out today, preaching free love and orgies for all.
Morons like George don't realize people were always having sex. They just weren't doing it in the mud at places like Woodstock. Enlightened? That generation did a great job of helping STDs spread like crazy. Really something to be proud of George....
George- I'm so glad I came of age in the 60's. What a great time to be young-and what a decade!! I feel sorry for the young people today......
Not our problem. Bring our troops home.
This is the World WE ALL live in. Little Cupids don't come out and shoot the Taliban and all of a sudden they love everyone on Earth. Singing "Love Will Find A Way" is NOT going to change their way of living one iota. They live in the "Dark Ages" of their own laws and no matter how much WE "Wish upon a Star" nothing is going to change, period. They have been brain-washed from birth and guess what? They are exactly Who they are....Taliban!
Yes. Delusional thinking helps nothing, only hurts. Truth, as in your paragraph, is the only thing that creates progress.
Your praying is what is Delusional because it absolutely solves NOTHING, period. Actions speak way louder then words or thoughts. Yes you can wait another 1000 years for something to change which this hasn't in the last such time. Your point is? Maybe long after you and I are deceased something like this will change. Since the Taliban are the ones that are despicable I'll just leave it at that. Facts.
Idiots abound in Afghanistan!!! Muslim terrorist have no idea of the meaning of love. All Islam ever taught them was absolute, murdering, lying obedience!!! Pain and suffering - for others - not them is their motto!!!
This is a "National Enquirer" article.
When the Taliban find out this marriage was not arranged, both these people will be killed. Sorry, but the Taliban only believes in killing to solve problems.
Unfortunate, but true.
Read these statements, dhimmis, and learn the truth. It's the only thing that will release you from your delusional state and the only thing that will save us from the clear and present danger of Islam.
Love + Youth = Hope + Courage
I hope they live a long and happy life together.
These two will be dead in a week....
Tim, what a cruel man you are. Why don't you show a little joy and optimism for a couple who are starting with nothing? Be kind...whatever your faith is. Gosh...is there no goodness and basic decency left in America, or the American blogs anymore? If you feel happy for this couple maybe you'll get real love someday. Is this hatred a White male thing or an American thing? Jeez Tim...a couple announce their engagement and you warn them about death. Get a life...or get kindness.
Sounds like Tim is just being realistic. This couple gets interviewed and published online, and at some point the Taliban are going to read it or hear about it. They pretty much belittle the Taliban and say that they are not afraid of them. So obviously the first thought the Taliban are going to have, being the bullies that they are, is "We need to make an example of them so others will fear us". While I am happy for the couple, and hope they live a long life together, you have to admit that the Taliban are going to at least be thinking about making an example of them.
Dr. MS, you apparently live in delusion. Why do you say Tim is cruel for stating the truth? The truly cruel people are those who live in the multicultural lie which allows the blood lust of Islam to perpetuate and perpetrate it's poison and death on the people of this part of the world. What Tim says or doesn't say has no effect on these people who live half a world away and 1,400 years ago. Secondly, Tim isn't the one who'll probably murder these people, blood lust Islamists will or have you not noticed such? You want to talk about hatred and accuse white males and Americans? If you want to chastise people about hate, talk to the Muslims. Islam is an ideology of hate and death. I don't say it, they do or is that another aspect of Islam you've not noticed?
Go, Tim! Keep on telling the truth. The light of truth is the only solution to the continuing, incessant horror of Islam.
And, Dr. MS, seriously, get a brain. If you're a Muslim, take your lies somewhere else.
Islam is poison.
Muslims kill more people every year than were killed in the 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition.
Muslims kill more people every week or two than so called "white Christian terrorists" have killed in the last 25 years.
Muslims kill more people every day than the KKK has killed in the last 50 years.
More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.
19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years.
Jihadists killed 931 people in January, 2013, critically wounding 1,480.
You're not talking about the south side of Chicago or Detroit are you?