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DON'T EVER SAY "NO"

When Allied troops captured a young American fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, last year a major American newspaper wrote the following:

“The parents of John Walker Lindh, the child of privilege turned Taliban terrorist didn’t put their foot down when he announced that he was going to drop out of school and when he decided to become a Muslim. Indeed they were actually proud of him for pursuing an alternative course.

His mother said it was “good for a child to find a passion”.

They didn’t object when he asked them to pay his way to Yemen, nor when his new circle of friends included gunmen.

As long as he could remember, his oh- so- progressive parents had answered “Yes” to his every whim. The only thing they insisted on was that nothing was insisted on..

“Newsweek” called it ‘truly perplexing’ that Walker was attracted to this narrow intolerant sect.”

The newspaper went on to say:

“There’s nothing perplexing about it.

He craved standards and discipline. Mum and Dad didn’t offer any; the Taliban did....