Origins of word "Taliban"

[Jon Ford]

Frances-- somebody may have answered this, but the name means "God's 
Students. Mostly ethnic Afghan Pashtuns trained in Pakestan, very religious 
students of Omar :?The origin of the Taliban movement in southern 
Afghanistan in late 1994
was just as following : "A religious teacher; Mawlawi Mohammed Omar,
organized his students, or " Taliban," into a band to pursue and kill a
Mujaheedin leader and his men who had assaulted three women in the city
of Kandahar". Anwar Munsuri, Deutsche Press Agents, in an article in
wrote " The Taliban grew into a reformist force against the rape of
Afghanistan by warlords and "corrupt and power-hungry"
Mujaheedin groups.


>From: Frances Morey <Frances_Morey@excite.com>
>Reply-To: <frances_morey@excite.com>
>To: Jon Ford <jonmfordster@hotmail.com>, hedwards@gstype.com, 
>austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Re: shudda stayed wid da circus
>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:44:12 -0800 (PST)
>
>Jon, et al.,
>Does anyone know the derivation of the word "taliban". I have been using it
>as in "talibanized", "talibanned", and "talibanuped", etc.?
>Everything that arouses us to antagonism has to have a label, it seems. 
>This
>one is quite curious.
>Frances
>
>
>On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:46:17 -0800, Jon Ford wrote:
>
> >  Harry-- I wouldn't say he exactly "ran away to join the Taliban"--he 
>ran
>off
> >  on a religious quest to Pakestan, and wound up a Taliban. His case is
>really
> >  interesting, particularly to those of us familiar with cult groups and
>how
> >  they transform their followers. Here is a very bright, well-educated
>youth
> >  of privilege, neither of whose parents are Muslims-- just the opposite 
>of
>
> >  most of the international Talaban fanatics, many of whom are Muslin 
>youth
>
> >  from desperately poor backgrounds -- but his background is similar to
>that
> >  of many cult-group members in the US who strart off as spiritual 
>questers
>
> >  and wind up hooked on some obscure and exploitive doctrine.
> >
> >  Jon
> >
> >
> >
> >  >From: Harry Edwards <hedwards@gstype.com>
> >  >To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> >  >Subject: shudda stayed wid da circus
> >  >Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:15:09 -0600 (CST)
> >  >
> >  >For a report on the kid who ran away to join the Taliban, check this
>out:
> >  >
> >  >
> >  
> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/12/04/MN80908.DTL
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >Harry
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> >
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