Just how do you talk to people who think it necessary and right to cut off the nose and ears of a young woman because she fled an abusive home, or kill medical aid workers who are serving the poor in Afghanistan? How do we, as foreigners in a foreign land, effectively wrest power and authority and moral legitimacy away from these people? And if we can 't, what are we doing there? Killing our enemies [Al Qaeda] and the allies and harborers of our enemies [Taliban] is a good enough reason for me, but do we really think we are going to build a modern nation-state out of this place or its peoples? Do we really believe we have the god-awful power it takes to accomplish that?
Let's pull down a few headlines from the recent news:
Afghan medical mission ends in death for 6 Americans. (August 7 - Associated Press)
Ten members of the Christian medical team — six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton — were gunned down in a gruesome slaughter that the Taliban said they carried out, alleging the volunteers were spying and trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. The gunmen spared an Afghan driver, who recited verses from the Islamic holy book Quran as he begged for his life. -- You might want to browse the article because it's about a medical team bringing humanitarian assistance to people without doctors and dentists who were murdered for their trouble.
Afghan woman whose nose, ears cut off travels to U.S. (August 4 - CNN)
Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan wife whose ears and nose were cut off by her husband, is heading to the United States on Wednesday for reconstructive surgery. Aisha made headlines and was on a recent cover of Time magazine, showing the plight of women in Afghanistan.
"When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out," Aisha said, describing the attack. "It felt like there was cold water in my nose. I opened my eyes, and I couldn't even see because of all the blood."
Aisha says her mutilation was an act of Taliban justice for the crime of shaming her husband's family.
At 16, she was handed over to her husband's father and 10 brothers, who she claims were all members of the Taliban in Oruzgan. "I spent two years with them and became a prisoner," she said.
She eventually ran away but was caught by police in Kandahar. And although running away is not a crime, in places throughout Afghanistan, it is treated as one if you are a woman. Eventually her father-in-law found her and took her back to her abusive home.
She was taken to a Taliban court for dishonoring her husband's family and bringing them shame. The court ruled that her nose and ears must be cut off, an act carried out by her husband in the mountains of Oruzgan, where they left her to die.
A few tender mercies of justice from the 'religion of peace'.
Stepping back in time there was the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 AD. That was 550 years ago, but The West is not without fault when it comes to religious torture. However we got over it a long time ago. Islam still boasts that sort of horror in the present day.
How can you make a silk purse out of a sow's ear in Afghanistan? Can you bring Islam kicking and screaming into the modern era where young teenage girls are not sold into slavery - and are punished by horrible mutilation when they try to escape?
CAN NASA REALLY DO THAT?
It's tougher then landing men on the moon and returning them safely to earth.
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The answer to ALL your questions about Islam is here: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-islam.html
Claiming that Islam is a 'religion of peace' is like claiming Obama is 'pro-life' and 'Pro-America'. Islam and peace just don't seem to be compatible with one another. Libs call for us to be tolerant while both they and Muslims are the least tolerant people.
"If you don't believe the way I do, you die." Sounds pretty peaceful.
WoFat - you don't necessarily die. Sometimes you're mutilated. Nose cut off, ears cut off, hands cut off, all in the interest of peace.
Islam is not a religion. I don't know what it is, maybe a cult. Maybe a political movement. But there is little of God's love in what they do.
Oil revenues power Arab, Farsi, and Islamic violence for the most part. Without it, they will return to their nomadic ways (by necessity), and leave the rest of us alone as a result.
Cut off the sources of money, and you cut off the heads of the Hydra. Now, of course, doing this as a practical matter is the rub.
I would suggest bombing them into the Stone Age, while surgically protecting the oil fields. Remove all Islamic and Arab control of petroleum, and we would see some progress. Of course, they would accuse us of stealing their oil, and they would be in a sense correct, but since they have declared war (Jihad) on us, that argument is off the table and the 'rules of war' would apply here (to the victor goes the spoils, to include petroleum). Suppress those voices subsequent to their defeat, since oil is the source of terrorism, and we eliminated a threat against the west in doing so.
Think this argument will be adopted soon?
We're going to "tolerant" ourselves right out of existance. Should you be tolerant when black mold invades your home? What about termites? How about if serial killers recently escaped from jail invade? be tolerant? What about someone speeding down your dead-end street while your 3-yr old is playing in the front yard? Be tolerant? Should you be tolerant of the mob when they start shaking down the small businesses in your town? The answer to all these questions of course, is no. So why in the world would we EVER consider being tolerant of a culture that has lived for and by the sword for centuries, has no desire to change, and has only one goal - to make Islam the only religion in the world - regardless of who or how many have to be killed to achieve that goal? Here's a test for all the progressive libs out there. I think I can safely say the majority of the country would support me when I say we'll GIVE you California. You can ALL move and live there, and we will leave you alone, on one condtion. You also have to take all the Islamists who live in, or want to come to, America with you. And while you're at it, take the illegal immigrants too! God, where's the tylenol!
Islam isn't a religion. It's a political system with a religious overtone. Any "religion" that tells you how you have to clean your butt, treat women as property, and force the conversion of "infidels" is not a religion.
We shouldn't allow any more mosques/armories to be built in the West (especially the Ground Zero mosque) until people are free to build churches, synagogues, and temples in mecca and medinah.
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