Talk:Joshua Blahyi
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If a special warfare center is named after him, it's impossible to find any other mention of it than that blog entry. I'm taking it out.
- Fair enough. As an aside, I don't think it would be slander to say so, as I don't think it would necessarily be a negative. But I've been looking for other sources as well, and couldn't find anything, and a blog entry isn't very reliable. That being said, when one reads the blog - if it is a flat-out invention, it's an oddly-placed one, very random... Zafiroblue05 20:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
I am still suspicious of this article. If this man actually exists, the only evidence of his bizzare claims being true is that he had said so. A plausible alternative is that he may be engaging in "lying for Christ" - what else could be more persuading than "I have been an insane war criminal, but now Christianity has saved me"? Compare American fundamentalists [1] claiming "I have been a victim and/or perpetrator of satanic ritual abuse, but now ..." - you get the idea. - Mike Rosoft 16:18, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- Take a look here or here or here. Multiple credible sources - books published major American university's presses, articles in non-tabloid newspapers in South Africa and Scotland - take it at face value. The objection that he is now exaggerating his past for the sake of evangelizing is a good one; to some extent, his exaggerating is probably likely.
- But I think it is highly unlikely that he doesn't exist at all, and the colorful nickname he received is at least one example of an outside source (the nickname had to come from somewhere, and wouldn't have been invented by a Christian evangelist or after-the-fact sensationalist reports - it's too good!). I think it's clear that he existed and was a particularly crazed warlord, as warlords go. The details could be incorrect, and I'm marking them more clearly as just claims. But there's at least basis of truth here that one can't deny, IMO.
- In addition - if the sources say the stories are true, which they do, it's original research to say that they're NOT true. All we have to go on is what other people say, not what WE say. zafiroblue05 | Talk 19:49, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- (On that basis, I'm going to remove the verify tag. The article's claims ARE verfied by outside, independent, trustable sources. zafiroblue05 | Talk 00:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC))
Another source for the nakedness/wig stuff - possibly could use as reason for why he and his troops dressed the way they did... zafiroblue05 | Talk 03:29, 5 April 2006 (UTC) http://www.slate.com/id/2086490/
