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We will judge the Taliban by their actions not their words and use every economic, political and diplomatic lever to protect our own countries from harm and to help the Afghan people. ... Does the Prime Minister believe that Tony Blair was right this morning when he said that western leadership was “naive” to believe that countries could be remade, or was it that our remaking of Afghanistan needed to last longer? If Tony Blair was saying that it was naive to believe that countries could be remade and he was thinking of some of the things that he supported, I think he was spot on. ...We need to work together to ensure that, as far as we possibly can, we condition the new Government and new authorities in Kabul to understand that Afghanistan cannot slide back into being a cesspit of terror. That is our effort today. ...the reality is that even when there were 130,000 western troops in the country, it was not possible to subjugate the Taliban, and I am afraid that we are living with the lessons of that today. ...One way forward for the Prime Minister and Government might be this: the Prime Minister might use his kind offices to ask the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, with 57 member states, to request that Al-Azhar, a leading Islamic school of thought, set out what Islam means for women and religious minorities, as that might give us a way to judge what the Taliban are doing and what Islam stands for. ...an interesting suggestion and I encourage it to be taken up. We need to ens ure that the elements of the Taliban who are different, as I believe they are, from the Taliban of 1996-9 are encouraged and that we put the maximum pressure on them not to allow the more retrograde elements to have the upper hand. That is what this Government and others around the world are going to do. house of commons 6 september

L'altro giorno Zabihullah, dato per sicuro ministro e alla fine risultato deputy di uno dei Gitmo 5 regalo del Qatar, spiegava ad una giornalista inglese come a lui la musica non fosse gradita. Ha aggiunto che comunque i soldati talebani cantano canzoni senza strumenti. Non ha usato la parola nasheed. 

Da abile comunicatore quale è, per tutto il corso dell'intervista ha guardato la giornalista negli occhi.

Alla moschea centrale di Londra, dove pronunciai la professione di fede, ho conosciuto immigrati e seconde generazioni che consideravano la dottrina sullo sguardo e la stretta di mano un cardine della religione. E parlo degli anni a ridosso del 9 11.

Ora pretendere di capire i talebani di oggi e addirittura di sapere intercettare il cambiamento, è un pò gross come si dice da quelle parti.