Once at dinner with Mullah Umar...

[KhyberKhan]

Once a delegation of guest came to visit Mulla Umar. Fresh bread, cream, tea and other delicacies were brought for the guests and they all began to eat heartily. All except Mulla Umar that is. He refused to touch the cream or the bread. His guests ushered him to eat with them but he refused.


His advisors also urged him to eat with the guests, indicating that there was nothing wrong with him eating this food since it had not been brought especially for him; it was brought for the guests and he was the host. He still refused. A few moments later, a worker brought in a bowl of plain soup together with some hard, stale bread. Mulla Umar proceeded to break the hard bread with his hands and eat it with the soup. Upon being asked the reasons for his refusal to eat the cream, Mullah Umar said:

"When the lowest person in my country eats this food, then I will eat it."

[emkhan]

Omar is Omar

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

Long live Omar.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

how do we even know this story is true? I remember reading that in some Taliban propaganda like 11 years ago


Then there were pictures of Mullah Omar's house



Not exactly a man who's eating stale bread if he's living in such a nice house.

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

Then there were pictures of Mullah Omar's house



Not exactly a man who's eating stale bread if he's living in such a nice house.

Yes, what a magnificent mansion it is.

I am green with envy.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

Yes, what a magnificent mansion it is.

I am green with envy.

well it may not be a mansion; but someone living there isn't eating stale bread, that is for sure.

The hole in the wall was caused during the overthrow of the Taliban.

[khushal]

he didn't have to eat stale bread, he chose to if the story is true.

I have read the stories about how he lived in a mansion and luxery but I have seen no evidence of it.
If you have evidence please enlighten me, I have been searching for it.

[khushal]

well it may not be a mansion; but someone living there isn't eating stale bread, that is for sure.

The hole in the wall was caused during the overthrow of the Taliban.

why are showing a picture of a hole in the wall. show us a pic of the place so we can see the real man and not the myth.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

so he'll live in a nice house (relative to Afghan standards) but won't eat fresh bread? LOL

[IamDZJ]

i never warm my food before eating it. that doesn't mean i am humble. i am simply lazy and tend to burn myself when it's hot. mullah omar better starve himself to death because he has been the cause for afghans starving for years.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

why are showing a picture of a hole in the wall. show us a pic of the place so we can see the real man and not the myth.

That's my whole point; all we have here is a "story" and we're supposed to take it as fact, and when people have pictures, you ask for more conclusive evidence.

You people are steeped in confirmation bias.

[khushal]

i never warm my food before eating it. that doesn't mean i am humble. i am simply lazy and tend to burn myself when it's hot. mullah omar better starve himself to death because he has been the cause for afghans starving for years.

Najib and the rest of the commies were the cause of it. Omar was a reaction to it.

[khushal]

That's my whole point; all we have here is a "story" and we're supposed to take it as fact, and when people have pictures, you ask for more conclusive evidence.

You people are steeped in confirmation bias.

It is you who is guilty of confirmation bias unless you can provide evidence for your claim.

[KhyberKhan]

That's my whole point; all we have here is a "story" and we're supposed to take it as fact, and when people have pictures, you ask for more conclusive evidence.

You people are steeped in confirmation bias.

This coming from a guy who posts a hole in a brick wall as proof of a mansion.

[khushal]

this is the mansion that the latinos live in east LA.


anyone that dont beleive in my pic is guilty of confirmation bias.