A bit about Talibanese education:......This is how firts-year schoolchildren learn the alphabet: "J is for Jihad, our aim in life, I is for Israel, our enemy, K is for Kalashnikov, we will overcome, M is for Mujahedeen, our heroes, T is for Taliban..."
War was the central theme in maths books too. Schoolboys - because the Taliban printed books solely for boys - did not calculate in apples and cakes, but in bullets and Kalashnikovs. Something like this: 'Little Omar has a Kalashnikov with three magazines. There are twenty bullets in each magazine.. he uses two thirds of bullets and kills sixty infields. How many infields does he kill with each bullets?'
Guys...try to find this book. Written by Asne Seierstad, a Norwegian journalist.
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Anonymous said...
yo! how are you?? interesting book you have here. gotta find it to read one day. Okay, take care and keep up in introducing us interesting books like this hehehehe -- miss you. Oyl
Hi Oyl,
How's Thailand? Love your job and heated environment already?
I'll see u in Thailand soon...(hope so)
Inform me any interesting book u've found there
Miss you too
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