"Genuine Muslims"
The Sick Backwards World We Live In. Quite right:
What about their treatment of women? Few people know that the Taliban had opened several centers to train women to be doctors. As for the burqas, the women of Afghanistan continued to dressed the way they had under the Taliban as they had done for centuries. In the countryside and in and around the home with a simple headscarf, but in the towns they wore the burqas.
Yeah, the poor misunderstood Taliban. All they did was dish out love:
More from the parallel universe:
To hand over OBL without evidence or a trial would completely contrary to the rule of law and no country on Earth would do it. It would be the same as France handing over General George S. Patton to the Japanese without evidence of a crime.
Video tapes, apparently, don't count.
It appears as though the Taliban might be just what they claimed to be genuine religious Muslims of very high integrity that posed no threat to the U.S.
Of course.
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