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Notes on Mullah Omar

 
  • Mulah Omar is head of Taliban and had his headquarters in Kandahar until the American Invasion. see also Kandahar
  • Mullah Omar lived in Jalalabad in the province of Nangahar and served under Mujahedin Commander Mullah Yunus Khalis in the Hezb-i-Islami during the Russian war.
  • Omar is from the province of Oruzgan.
  • Omar is said to have shrapnel pressing on his brain from an explosion a few years ago. This affects his judgement and accounts for his visions.
  • Omar claimed the title of emir of Afghanistan, Amir-ul Momineen (leader of the faithful) and Calif (the spiritual and political leader of all Islam). He was born the son of a tenant farmer in a mud hovel near Kandahar in 1959. His family is of the Hotak tribe who are Ghilzai Pashtuns. Omar fought as a Mujaheddin against the Russians in the 1980s under Mullah Yunus Khalis. Prone to injuries he lost his right eye. He later caught shrapnel in his head that has been pressuring his brain and causing visions.
  • With intensive Pakistani and Saudi backing Omar attempted to create a pure Islamic state. The problem is that he never really understood true Islam. He adopted a bastardized form of Sunni Islam called Deobandi Islam and is deeply influenced by heterodox Wahabbi Islam and Pashtunwali (Pashtun social custom).
  • Mullah Omar was closely tied to the Deobandi school of Islam in Pakistan

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