Dealing with Islamic terrorists, and with Afghanistan

[Dr. Evil]

> > Perhaps a Britney Spears concert?
> 
> Hey, now, we don't want to be violating the Geneva and Stockholm accords
> ourselves. <g>

Hey there's nothing wrong with Britney except for her music, right?

> Probably some of them do, the Joe Talibans I mean, not the not-so-smart
> bombs. The problem is they probably haven't read the Koran too carefully
> and are relying on the misinterpretations of mullahs with agendas. Same
> thing happens with Christianity. Latin America had several preachers
> teaching "Revolutionary Christianity" or some such nonsense, telling the
> guerrillas that the sixth commandment allows the killing of enemies. The
> preachers could get away with this because the masses were mostly
> semi-literate and mostly uneducated.

That's a good way to look at it.  Anyway, the Koran is written in
Arabic, and Joe Taliban speaks some Persian dialect, and he may not be
literate in that, much less literate in Koranic Arabic, so they
basically can't read it themselves, and have to rely on the mullahs,
who, as you point out, have agendas.  I guess it's the same situation
with the Catholic church in the middle ages.

The situation is the same everywhere.  In the US there are some people
who don't believe that the 2nd Amendment means that people have the
right to bear arms.