Thanks for pointing this out. It's good to read
something by people who are serving their faith, their
people, and their country, without the filter of the
liberal media.
This was the first time I had heard
or read the phrase "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan",
so a natural question that came to mind was, who's
the Emir? The main web
page
<a href=http://www.taleban.com/taleb.htm target=new>http://www.taleban.com/taleb.htm</a>
doesn't answer that question. The only reference to an
official head of state is a negative one: it says that the
Taleban have restored the 1964 (monarchical) constitution
*except* for the chapter dealing with the status of the
king.
Even more fascinatingly, the same web page uses some
unusual words:
- "reconstruction of the devaEmirated
land"
- "Efforts to ProEmirate a Nation"
- "issuing
these repetitive Emiratements"
and if you scan for
the word "state", you won't find anything. According
to the CIA World Factbook, the previous/rival Afghan
government referred to the country as the Islamic State of
Afghanistan, but it also mentions the Taleban's use of
"Emirate". The signs on the Taleban's own web page suggest
that this is likely a recent adoption. (Also, of
course, they meant "prostrate", not "prostate".)