[Peace-discuss] cool sayings on anti-war swag

[C. G. Estabrook]

Hm. 

"Taliban" is from Pashto طالبان (= "students" or "seekers"), a Pashto plural of 
Arabic طالب (= "seeker", "student"). Now an armed party or movement, it began 
as a Sunni (Islamic) student movement in Pakistan; as a political reform 
movement it was organized in 1994 by mullah Mohammad Omar. From 
September 1996, they ruled large parts of Afghanistan (including the capital, 
Kabul) as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; they were overthrown by the US 
invasion of 2001.

Mujahideen is from the Arabic مجاهدين (mujahidín = fighters), plural of مجاهد 
(mujáhid = fighter, freedom fighter, warrior, struggler).

So maybe the shirt could be read "Freedom Fighters or Students."


---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:36:28 -0500
>From: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] cool sayings on anti-war swag  
>To: Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
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>I like the sentiment of this t-shirt, [But it takes too long to explain]
>
>Mujahideen or Taliban
>$19.95
>A play on words, Mujahideen means “freedom fighter” and Taliban is
>equated with being a terrorist. The people the U.S. is currently
>fighting in Afghanistan has been labeled as terrorists; when the
>Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the 1980’s the U.S. labeled these
>people Mujahideen or “Freedom Fighters”. This shirt is offered in red.
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