The Taliban and The Watchtower

by JWD 10 Replies latest jw friends

  • JWD
    JWD

    It`s amazing the unusual bed-fellows one finds from time to time.
    It seems that certain traits know no national boundaries. While watching the news the other day men with turbans living in Afganistan
    began to resemble men with suits dwelling in Brooklyn. You might have
    to squint a little bit to see the resemblance but try and see if you
    can see what I saw.

    As to the Talibans and the leaders of the Watchtower:

    Both suppress information
    Both discourage higher education
    Both rejoice at the death of their `enemy`
    Both keep women in a low place in society
    Both keep their followers poor
    Both have all their people wearing the same style clothes!
    Both like making lots of petty rules
    Both have their own `theocratic police force`
    Both have a thing about beards (Taliban want em on/ WT wants em off)
    Both have a thing about New York!
    Both hate the trinity

    Any other common traits I might have missed? JWD

  • CornerStone
    CornerStone

    Both think they are going to heaven, (with or without virgins).

    CornerStone

  • JWD
    JWD

    Both believe they`re fighting a `Holy War`

    Both don`t hesitate to ask their followers to throw away their lives.

  • JWD
    JWD

    Both have really boring services! (and bad singing!)

  • JWD
    JWD

    Both hate apostates!!

    Both hate the American government

    Both are looking forward to Armageddon

  • Amazing
    Amazing

    Good points TR: We can also add:

    Both prohibit their members access to the Internet.
    The Taliban prohibits TV, the WT just discourages TV
    Both believe in Theocratic government.

    Now we can see what might happen if the Watchtower were given real political power and have guns in their hands. - Amazing

  • proplog2
    proplog2

    More garbage from the haters. There is absolutely no comparison. But have fun.

  • hawkaw
    hawkaw

    No prolog there is lots to compare.

    The big thing - there is no check and balance in both organizations. Thus, the ends justify the means happens in both organizations and the innocent people get hurt.

    hawk

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    You guys noticed that too. Seriously the characteristics are a lot the same. If you had a muslim friend, it would confirm it even more.

    S

  • JWD
    JWD

    A good friend of mine has been working in northern Pakistan for
    18 years. He speaks Pushtoon fluently and has many friends who are
    from Afganistan. We were comparing the fundamentalist Islamic world
    view and the WT world view and were amazed at the similarities we
    came up with.

    JWD

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