TALIBANISM

Have we ever thought abt a phrase called Talibanism? and why Taliban is hell bound on creating a primitive world which is 100 yrs behind the current development? Interesting isn't it. As they too use laptops, mobile phones, sat navigation systems, kaloshnikovs, mineral water...but still they want Afghanistan to be as it was 100 yrs ago...

The phrase Talibanism was excisting for quite sometime and it was first used by a NEWYORK TIMES journalists to describe the act of terrorism in its extreme sense. But now a jewish journalist has given a new meaning for Talibanism. According to him anyone who wants a peace and quite nation with minimal resources to live and where traditional values are considered in a socialistic manner can be described as embracing Talibanism. It doesnt make sense at all in first read and needless to say that article created a furor in the world for trying to justify Taliban...

But lets try to understand that in a simple way. Take BANGALORE CITY for example. I used to go to Bangalore when i was very young. That was about 15 years back (still am young hihi). I remember the roads, the gardens, the beautiful climate of the city. How good it was. You wont see slums, only educated people, everywhere there are gardens, neat, the roads look as if u r in singapore with trees on both sides which are having green leaves. I loved the place. Till about 10 yrs back the city was decribed as "garden city" and "Honeymooners City".

Now to the present. I went there last year to visit my sis and coming from a quiet place like trivandrum and a neat place like singapore i was taken back seeing bangalore. Those old roads are gone and have become dirty, the trees are having brown leaves, slums have popped up, illegal constructions on the outskirts, the gardens have been taken up for IT buildings and Malls and for COFFEE BEANZ. Jesus! it was a complete turn around. You can see more IT brads than beggers in every corner of the city!! The city has lost its charm. Its now just another indian city. CLimate has become worse. I drove in the city this time, and tell u that was a nightmare!!!.

Now let me embrace Talibanism. If i were to believe in talibanism, wht i would do is to create an army and try to flush out all modernity from bangalore , demolish all illegal constructions, chuck out IT companies and make it the old bangalore ...exactly as it was 15 yrs back..Ofcourse the 1000s of jobs will be gone, the business will decrease and the economy will unwind. But thats not my objective instead i want that "garden city", the "honeymooners city" back...Am not talking about economy here, but Talibanism.

Eventhough i want the above to happen, i really am not so supportive of it as i am educated (supposedly!) and can think of economic benefits that we have now because of IT comps.

But imagine a Talibanist, who hasnt seen school in his life nor anything made of paper pulp and sees afghanistan being populated with american ideologists with new developments popping up. No wonder y he goes haywire and tries to close the community to external world so that he can live in his old times with islamic radicalism. Do remember that islamic radicalism was considered legal till abt 50 yrs back by Muslims when americans decided to name some of the acts as radicalism . Thats TALIBANISM. Thats exactly what the article by the jewish journalist is trying to convey. Ofcourse he will understand as he is from Palestine.

Now the question to ask is whether Talibanism is an idealogy, religion or nationalism???

GOD SAVE US!!!