Mohammed Hanif, a Pakistani and BBC correspondent for their Urdu service, had a informative article in the Wash Post Outlook section today on how and why the Taliban took over Swat and almost took over Buner.
The people (especially barber shop and music store owners, not to mention women of any profession) despise them and their conservative laws but can do nothing about it. This echoes many other reports: People hate the Taliban but do not have the resources (guns) to act.
A local man described his feelings the day the Taliban came into Buner: "I felt like a non Muslim citizen of Mecca the day it was conquered by Muhammad's army." This is a deeply telling statement, it encapsulates the hypocrisy of the Taliban movement and their corruption of Islam.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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