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Taliban create bonfire of 'immoral' music equipment

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This is not the way to get your city on the next Willie Nelson world tour.

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Progressively winding the nation back to the Middle Ages. Who needs crypto when you have goats for currency. Just escape whilst you can. Nations that handed the Afghan people back to the Taliban should accept as refugees anyone who wishes to leave.

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Pay attention - this is coming to a Red State in the US near you...

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They want to rip the heart and soul out of all the people just because of a book.

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Why legitimise a narrative from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice ?

The reality is four incredibly dull men burning a pile of junk in the desert.

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"Promoting music causes moral corruption and playing it will cause the youth to go astray," said Aziz al-Rahman al-Muhajir, head of the Herat department of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

Probably got incensed at the end of ‘Footloose’ and beat his wife up.

Neanderthals.

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"We'll have a bonfire, and dance around like"...oh wait, Talibuddies dont' dance.

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Afghanistan has a long history of music.

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Surely, them standing there and letting their photo's being taken can be classed as 'posing' which must be a sin according to whatever book they follow.

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Bombing them back to the stone age would only set the Taliban back a generation.

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EastmanToday 03:03 pm JST

nice US "victory" in "war against terrorism"...and at bvery "cheap" costs...sleepyJoe moshi moshi are you "proud"?

You have something relevant to add? The Taliban were around long before the 2003 Afghan War. This is what you wanted with a coalition defeat.

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I have no words. Wonder if there were any books in that pile to aid their symbolism.

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