yeah, i share your wishes, and let's hope that what comes next will be better, for you, and for the afghani people!
Merry Christmas Nasim! I hope this year will be a year of remarkable achievements for you and for Afghan youth in general. Keep up the great work; lots of us support you and we'll never forget you and your country.
maybe i am uninformed, but it seems that in afghanistan and iraq (and some other countries) where there are violent radical islamic movements, that selling christmas trees would warant death. seeing as christmas is the celebration of the birth of christ. i have read blogs from lebanon, iraq and afghanistan today (all by natives of those countries) and they have all posted stories and pictures about christmas. i think is awesome and it shows that there is hope that we can all get along, be that christian, muslim, jewish or whatever. i wish everyone a joyous and peaceful christ-mas.
A Merry Christmas to you too, Nasim!
Thank you so much for writing your blog and sharing your photos with us!
Nasim Jan, you know that I love you and I don't forget you, for what I can do...
Love and peace, always
Merry Xmas to you, Nasim, and to all the brave people. And my best wishes for a joyful new year.
Ciao
Giovanni B.
Nasim, I trust you found the Christmas season joyful. I find it incongruous to see Christmas adornments in Afghanistan. Of course, this Christian holiday, which has it origins in so many pagan traditions and is now as much a secular celebration as a religious one, there is something for everyone to celebrate for the Winter solstice time.
I hope the best for Afghanistan in the New Year with more of the Afghani factions coming in out of the cold and participating in rebuilding the country. I trust my country, Canada, will have the good sense to bring it's troops home when they are no longer making a positive contribution.
Merry Christmas Nasim, albeit a bit late. I wish you and all the Afghanis the best for '08!
From your name I would think you were a Muslim...but if you celebrated...I hope you had a wonderful Christmas & an equally wonderful New Year!
I am indeed surprised to see shops selling Christmas trees...Afghanistan being a Muslim country....how little I know!
Mirandian!
Don't surprise in that, there are a lot Afghan Christians and also international who works in Afghanistan.
Christianity is always repeated in Quran and several verses repeated says Isa Rohllah ( jasus is the soul of God)
Although Muslims don't believe to Christianity but they always respect it.
Nasim
Nasim, that's nice to know. I stay in the Middle East and here in some places its not allowed for such public display...some places not encouraged...if you get what I mean.
Nasim,
Because this is quite late for 'Xmas 2007, please let me be the first to greet you a Joyous and Blessed Christmas for the year 2008.
Like some of the the people who placed a comment in your blog, I also wasnt expecting that there would 'Xmas ornaments/symbols in Afghanistan.
Nice pictures! Nice blog! Nice work! You're doing a great job! What you're doing is commendable and very NOBLE!!
I saw your blog when it was featured in slate.com.
Congratulations for winning the 2005 Freedom of Expression Blog Awards of RSF!! You definitely deserved it.
Kudos to you and keep up the
good work.
God bless you and all your people.
May this Christmas be bright and cheerful for Afghani people and may the New Year begin on a prosperous note.Love, Peace and Joy came down on earth on Christmas day to make you happy and cheerful and spread cheer in your lives!
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