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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 01 2015, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the learn-from-history-or-be-doomed-to-repeat-it dept.

For two years, academics worked to digitize and translate a collection of Taliban documents as part of the Taliban Sources Project (page currently appears to be down, but exists in Google's cache). As the project comes to a close, they've sought an institution to make the digital archive available to researchers around the world. However, the British Library, after reviewing a catalogue of titles, declined to host the documents. Their statement noted that“The Terrorism Act places specific responsibilities on anyone in the UK who might provide access to terrorist publications, and the legal advice received jointly by the British Library and other similar institutions advises against making this type of material accessible.”


[Ed. note] I've had a report that it is available on Bing's cache.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:31PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:31PM (#230977) Homepage Journal

    No the mystery is how do women let this happen? Surely Taliban wasn't getting depopulated because all the women were dead. Unless you believe that all women are angels who have a mental moral compass that men lack which will automatically tell women to not breed unless raped?

    May be women were part of it? How would you find out? We won't study even their men because people have trouble trusting women unless they take a militant stance on proving innocence of women?

    Just saying.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:09PM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:09PM (#230989) Journal

    Women who try to prevent it happening end up dead at the hands of their husbands or fathers.
    Its been going on so long, they know no other way. Some, perhaps most, willingly believe this
    is the right way, when in fact it is the only way allowed by the men.
    Cattle don't get to decide when they will breed.

    Which is why I say:

        "The mystery is how do you get women in charge of all education in such a society."

    If you have some suggestions, I'm all ears.

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    No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @05:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @05:13AM (#231134)

      He has no suggestion. It might be easy to miss if the only context you have for cubancigar is that singular post, but pay attention to his posting history and you'll see he is a ultra-misogynist taliban wannabe. Knowing that, go back and read his post again and it is super obvious.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:03AM

      by cubancigar11 (330) on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:03AM (#231145) Homepage Journal

      That is a nice story, 50% of population has devised an intricate system that works on every level, all connected, resulting in large number of deaths in this same group, but the other 50% of population has got nothing to do with it... they are just too weak, resulting in several times less deaths in this group. It become believable because you don't get any studies on how such societies help certain women or how the victims of most murders, mutilation, robbing, kidnapping and any kind of crime are actually men NOT women.

      See this is the problem with the patronizing oriental approach. You believe that all men are same - evil - with all exceptions being not so important for narrative, and all women are same - innocent - with all exceptions being not so important for narrative. Whenever one starts talking about how 'men' have created, ruled and benefited from the system, one is talking about a movie and nothing else. A system that kills those who oppose it, and somehow some privileged onlooker has to come and complain about how men are running things and women are being oppressed when in reality, proven by all empirical data, it is always the MEN who oppose such system first and get killed, and ALWAYS the women who survive in larger numbers. It is never about strong praying on weak because then your own existence becomes a choice between 'I am strong' and 'I am privileged'. It never becomes about how when a society becomes more and more militarized, stronger are given more and more power, abuse of power is tolerated more and more, or that such system enables criminal men AND women over more peace loving men AND women. No. Out of no where gender does become an issue.

      I am not sure why it is so. Is it because the weak men of rich countries can't prove their manhood in their society so are hell bent on imaging damsels in distress in poorer countries? Is it because people actually think that taking responsibility is 'BEING A MAN' and so by default all the blame must be laid on men? Is it because men are supposed to protect women and so there are large number of organizations working under the banner of humanitarian NGOs (both in the west and the east working together) that get huge donations when they whip-up such atrocity porn? Is it because the true face of the fact that blind reach to power corrupts everything is too toxic for the government of UK to tackle?

      Regarding, ' "The mystery is how do you get women in charge of all education in such a society." ' - women were already in charge of all of the education from birth to teenage. In fact, that is the only responsibility they are allowed to have. Women don't like it. They don't want it. They want freedom from the role of mother, you know. They want what men have - being a man - getting out of the house, not letting family dictate their own life and doing their own thing. The word unwanted pregnancy is a technical term in west, but it doesn't exist in Afghanistan, you know? They don't believe any woman is capable of thinking anything except her kids? Because she is a mother? Because 'women are like that'? We want that to change. The world has progressed AWAY from what you want to achieve. We want more of it, and as a man I want that to happen to men too! Traditional role doesn't even allow father to have any role in child rearing. If a child doesn't please his father at the ripe age of 'being a man' (an age that changes from society to society and from time to time), then it is his or her mother who is held responsible for it.

      I am not sure where should I stop because I feel most soylentils are white americans who have absolutely zero idea about actual social structure of agrarian societies. Now thanks to the decision of British Library's decision most of us are doomed to depend on news media to know that, an industry in cahoots with the government.