Taliban Quotes - Page 6

• The Pashtuns feel discriminated against by the Americans because they supported the Taliban and the war is still going on in their region with continued U.S. bombing. They are also disgruntled at the overwhelming power of their ethnic rivals the Tajiks, who dominate the security forces in Kabul and control the key levers of political power. Although Karzai is a Pashtun also, many Pashtuns consider him a hostage to the Tajiks and Americans.

  Ahmed Rashid

  War, Keys, Political

  Source: progressive.org

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• I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Goats, Safe, Politics

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• [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sorry, Iraq, Bosnia

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• The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

  Will Durst

  Earth, Politics, Problem

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• Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

  James Taranto

  College, Rights, Views

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• The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Thinking, World, Afghanistan

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.

  Laurence Tribe

  Country, America, Airports

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• There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

  Peter Pace

  Leadership, Battle, Offensive

  "September 11, 2001 : Attack on America". DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 30, 2001.

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• Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.

  Toby Keith

  Real, Nice, Hands

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• Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Soul, Way, Impossible

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• According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.

  Bashar al-Assad

  School, Men, People

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

  Steve Earle

  Real, Enemy, Fundamentalism

  "'John Walker's Blues' meets the boos". www.cnn.com. July 23, 2002.

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• What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Europe, Important

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it up in Pakistan, where the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary, and our young wife in California would've picked up an item like this. And it puts out that Salafi-Wahhabi ideology that is ultimately the toxic poison that is crossing all these borders.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Book, Government, California

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the story of David and Goliath and David's friend, the Stealth Bomber.

  Tina Fey

  Victory, Rebel, Experts

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• The big question now is who will take power in Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. I was thinking, how about Al Gore? He's not doing anything, he needs a job, and he's already got the beard.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Thinking, Needs

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• Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches, but they do have calendars.

  Mitt Romney

  Calendars, May, Watches

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• What NATO troops are doing in Afghanistan is to train, assist and advise Afghans, but they are actually doing the fighting. They are actually taking the responsibility for the security in their own country. And that is a great achievement, compared to what we saw just a few years ago, when NATO troops had to conduct the combat operations fighting the Taliban.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Country, Responsibility, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Taliban has asked Osama bin Laden to voluntarily leave the country.They said they delivered him a note asking him to leave, which is a pretty goodtrick considering they claim they don't even know where he is.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Asking, Osama Bin Laden

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• If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.

  Henry Rollins

  America, People, Different

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• I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Pakistan, Saws, Mets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• But we have achieved at least two important things. Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for international terrorists. We have a strong Afghan army, which is fighting the terrorists and Taliban. And the second thing is that they are able to do that without us being there to conduct the combat operations.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Strong, Army, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Mother, Dream

  "Malala's diary / "I am afraid"". Cited in: Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger, 10 October 2012, www.bbc.com. January 3, 2009.

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