MetaFilter posts tagged with Taliban and religion

and Cash is King...

dkg — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:50:56 -0800

A disturbing chess set uses the US war in the Middle East as inspiration for its pieces. This is only one modern take of many variations of sets which play off of religious/cultural conflict. to The game itself generally has had a turbulent relationship with religion. In the 13th Century, Pope Innocent III excused post-chess homicide as an involuntary act. Some modern Muslims don't approve of chess, despite Islam having probably introduced it to Europe. Judaism also has a long, if disputed engagement with the game, including enduring anti-semitic attacks about "Jewish" gameplay. The Taliban banned chess in Afghanistan, and the game has returned after their fall (though it now sounds like the Afghan women's team has been withdrawn).

Religious freedom

semmi — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:04:09 -0800

In the meantime back at the ranch. Afghan man faces death for abandoning Islam for Christianity.

American Taliban, sans condoms, extra brimstone

troutfishing — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:32:20 -0800

American Taliban plans theocracy - soon Theocracy Watch reports on the religious right's takeover of the Republican Party. The Bush Administration's proposed Federal Marriage Amendment is but one ploy of the new American Taliban : "with one amendment the religious right could wipe out access to birth control, abortion, and even non-procreative sex" ["...behind this amendment: Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Gary Bauer, Robert Bork, Rick Santorum" - via Andrew Sullivan]. Maureen Farrell chronicles the power centers of the newly powerful religious right. Tim LaHaye, author of the Left Behind series, has the President's ear and this concerns more than jamming Creationism into your school's curriculum.

On the agenda - "The civil government of our nation, its laws, institutions, and practices must therefore be conformed to the principles of Biblical law as revealed in the Old and New Testaments." Writes Farrell - "How did this happen? - Voter apathy is the key to the phenomenal ascent of the Religious Right in the U.S. government." Pat Robertson, 1990 : "With the apathy that exists today, a small, well-organized minority can influence the selection of candidates to an astonishing degree."

rushmc — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 17:30:03 -0800

In other news, Humpty Dumpty put back together again.

KimmishKim — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:33:02 -0800

The Taliban has declared the Internet un-Islamic, but elsewhere in the Muslim world, going online is one way to avoid the censors.

da5id — Tue, 22 May 2001 04:09:36 -0800

How far will the Taleban go in isolating themselves from the rest of the world? This possible move brings to mind memories of how the Nazis treated the Jews during WWII.

rushmc — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:39:11 -0800

All your cultural treasures are belong to us! At least in China it was the accidental kind of stupidity...