stellauk
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Hmm, let's see if I can make any of this simpler.
You see there's this country, it's made up of 50-odd states and it lies between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans just south of Canada and north of Mexico. It's called the United States.
There's this other country, some way to the north west of Pakistan, in mountains, inhospitable, known as Afghanistan. It's one of the poorest countries in the world, the people are hard, very hard.
There's also the Internet. This starts at something which is known as a computer, a box with electronic equipment, a monitor, keyboard, mouse.. if you're reading this it should be that bit of equipment you can see in front of you.
You might notice a cable (unless it's wireless) running into a phone socket. It leads to a massive network of other computers, all over the world, known as the Internet. You access the Internet through what is known as a browser which displays web pages and websites. Any website on the Internet can generally be viewed by people from any computer, anywhere in the world.
Now, coming back to those two countries. In one of these countries, Afghanistan, there are soldiers and troops from the other country I wrote about - the United States. They have been there for some time because of some Afghans who enjoy living in the 12th century known as the Taliban. They believe that the world has become a place dominated by evil and that anyone who chooses to live in the modern world also must be evil. They think other Muslims are softies, that women are lower than them, that other people who aren't Muslim are also evil, in fact anyone who isn't Taliban is evil. They are not nice to such people, they string them up from lorries, shoot them publicly and it is thought they also have links with terrorism.
Most Muslims think the Taliban are a bunch of crazy nutters, as do many other people in the world.
The soldiers from the United States are in Afghanistan because of a war - when two sides of people who don't like each other much use weapons on each other. A war on terrorism, where people make bombs which they hide to blow up things and people who they don't like.
Now, in both countries, i.e. the United States and Afghanistan, there are people who are somewhat pissed that troops from the United States are in Afghanistan.
Some of these people are religious. Some believe in a religion called Islam, and call themselves Muslims to let other people know that they believe in Islam. These tend to be living mainly in Afghanistan. They also live in other countries too, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Algeria, and so on.
In the United States there are other religious people, who believe in Christianity, centred around a bloke who was good at woodwork and who was called Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, to let other people know that they believe in Christianity. Christians also live in other countries too.
Some of these religious people (Christians, Muslims) are not only rather pissed about the war and the soldiers, but they are also not very intelligent. They are so stupid that they cannot tell the difference between an evil American and a normal American. In the United States they are unable to tell the difference between a Muslim and a terrorist. I have already stated that the Afghan people, living in some of the most inhospitable territory on the planet are hard people.
When you get hard and stupid together these people will kill you without even thinking about it. Even for the slightest reason.
These stupid Muslims in Afghanistan believe that because there are American soldiers in their country that all Americans are at war with them, and together with others who perhaps are more intelligent are the enemy. Now what happens usually in a war when you perceive someone as an enemy you try to hurt them or even kill them. This is why weapons are used, and why soldiers carry weapons.
Then there was a preacher - this is a man who stands up in church and talks about religion or reads from a book known as The Holy Bible - who was rather stupid and decided that because he didn't like Muslims much he would burn their holy book, known as the Holy Koran (Muslims also use this sort of book in meetings in a mosque, which is like a church).
The preacher made it public that he was burning the Koran, and details of this burning was made available on the Internet.
Then there was another silly man, in Afghanistan, called Karzai, who also had access to a computer which also was connected to the Internet. On the Internet he must have found a website about the silly preacher who burned the Holy Koran, which as a Muslim must have greatly upset him and pissed him off no end, and this is where the trouble started which led to more people getting rather pissed and angry and holding demonstrations and killing people.
I hope this makes things simpler for those who are having great difficulties 9 pages into this thread understanding what this is all about.
< Message edited by stellauk -- 4/7/2011 5:09:00 PM >
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