[infowar.de] Prawda 12.7.01: TALIBAN BANS USE OF INTERNET FOR AFGHANS

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                      TALIBAN BANS USE OF INTERNET FOR AFGHANS

 The Taliban has prohibited for Afghans the use of Internet and obliged public officials to wear black
 turbans. 
 The Frontier Post newspaper reports that until now computers linked to the world web were found in
 only two ministries -- information and foreign affairs, as well as the office of the governmental new
 agency Bakhtar. The news agency and the military command of the so-called Taliban militia /the Kabul
 regime's army/ had their own sites. 
 Now even these sources of information on domestic life are being closed: the Muslim theologians --
 mullahs and ulemas, who came to power in 1996 -- are enforcing their Medieval norms and Islamic canons
 in their own orthodox interpretation. 
 Now in the Taliban-controlled territory of Afghanistan nobody may use electronic mail. This, too, is
 designed to bar the population from "the pernicious influence of the satanic west", reads the decree. 
 The second decree of mullah Omar obliges all public officials to wear black turbans as a distinction
 uniform. They also have been obliged to fill out all documentation in black ink. 
 Earlier, the Taliban leadership obliged all teachers and students in universities to wear black turbans.
 Without them students were not allowed to attend classes or were ousted from the few remaining higher
 schools. 
 Islamisation of the country is in full swing. This year the machine of state, including the army and the
 police, was exposed to total purge. Thousands of officials, who used to be faithfully serving the Taliban
 regime, have been fired and replaced by fanatic graduates of theological seminaries, madrasahs


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