It wasn't too long ago, Afghanistan was run by this group called the Taliban, an Afghani reminisces of the good ol' days . . .>> Ah yes, the good old days. Back then, we really knew how to keep the womenfolk in line. Back then, it was illegal for little girls to go to school and learn how to read and write. All that learning can make a woman uppity, you know. Back in the good ol' days of the Taliban, it was illegal for women to work outside the home. Yeah, barefoot and pregnant, that's how we liked to keep them, property of their fathers until sold off to their husbands.Damn, talk about how things have gone to hell, now you have little girls going to school, learning to read and write and women, actually dreaming of having careers! <<
Islam is newer than Christianity, I don't understand why you call it bronze age. Christianity comes from similar superstitious and humble roots as well if you're trying to put one religion down in favor of your own.
This is why some comparisons are so odious. The sheer scale of devastation over decades plus countless deaths in Afghanistan vs. the economic decline of Detroit. Yeah right.
The picture reminds me of how Cambodia used to look back in 1965, 10 years before it's destruction by the Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodia 1965: <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyqtMnVI1Qk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyqtMnVI1Qk</a>Now, Cambodia is a third world country still recovering from what happened. Progress has been made but still decades left to catch up with the world. Idiotic ideologies ruin the world and prevent progress
@rrwestThat was the destruction of the Serapeum, which was thought to have once housed the library.It is more likely to have been invading Arab armies who destroyed it.From Wikipedia: "Several historians told varying accounts of an Arab army led by Amr ibn al 'Aas sacking the city in 642 after the Byzantine army was defeated at the Battle of Heliopolis. Some historians, including Alfred J. Butler, argue that, when the commander Amr ibn al-Aas asked the Caliph Umar on what to do with the library he gave the famous answer: "They will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, in which case they are superfluous." It is said that the Arabs subsequently burned the books to heat bathwater for the soldiers."
Closed AccountDec 27, 2009
It wasn't too long ago, Afghanistan was run by this group called the Taliban, an Afghani reminisces of the good ol' days . . .>> Ah yes, the good old days. Back then, we really knew how to keep the womenfolk in line. Back then, it was illegal for little girls to go to school and learn how to read and write. All that learning can make a woman uppity, you know. Back in the good ol' days of the Taliban, it was illegal for women to work outside the home. Yeah, barefoot and pregnant, that's how we liked to keep them, property of their fathers until sold off to their husbands.Damn, talk about how things have gone to hell, now you have little girls going to school, learning to read and write and women, actually dreaming of having careers! <<
robotwarlordDec 27, 2009
To be fair, it didn't actually look that beautiful. It was the kind of scrappy urban park people go to just because they don't have gardens.
xjason1987Dec 29, 2009
That's sad...
hawaiianssmellDec 31, 2009
Dessert Storm: The great crusade against cakes and pies.
erikwithaknotacJan 5, 2010
Islam is newer than Christianity, I don't understand why you call it bronze age. Christianity comes from similar superstitious and humble roots as well if you're trying to put one religion down in favor of your own.
darkfishJan 6, 2010
This is why some comparisons are so odious. The sheer scale of devastation over decades plus countless deaths in Afghanistan vs. the economic decline of Detroit. Yeah right.
distantignitionJan 8, 2010
I thought that was so stupid yet I laughed so incredibly hard.
thearaJan 9, 2010
The picture reminds me of how Cambodia used to look back in 1965, 10 years before it's destruction by the Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodia 1965: <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyqtMnVI1Qk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyqtMnVI1Qk</a>Now, Cambodia is a third world country still recovering from what happened. Progress has been made but still decades left to catch up with the world. Idiotic ideologies ruin the world and prevent progress
locastusJan 14, 2010
@rrwestThat was the destruction of the Serapeum, which was thought to have once housed the library.It is more likely to have been invading Arab armies who destroyed it.From Wikipedia: "Several historians told varying accounts of an Arab army led by Amr ibn al 'Aas sacking the city in 642 after the Byzantine army was defeated at the Battle of Heliopolis. Some historians, including Alfred J. Butler, argue that, when the commander Amr ibn al-Aas asked the Caliph Umar on what to do with the library he gave the famous answer: "They will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, in which case they are superfluous." It is said that the Arabs subsequently burned the books to heat bathwater for the soldiers."
kurtwinterJan 15, 2010
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