posted on March 2, 2001 09:37:43 AM new
Oh I know they are lovely. They virtually enslave their women. They arrest anyone who does not have on a long sleeve shirt. They arrest people for having a haircut that is too "western". They had a soccer team visiting from Pakistan and were so upset that they came on the field in shorts that they shaved the visiting team's heads - which is a ritual humiliation in their culture. What does their religion say about hospitality?
They are going out of their way to humiliate visitors from the neighboring country which is supposedly the same religion and just happens to now be a nuclear power. If you
nuked the biggest 5 or 6 cities there you would probably have about 5000 goat herders left in the whole place.
posted on March 2, 2001 10:19:27 AM new
If this was a situation where one ethnic group was 'enslaving' another ethnic group--the UN would be in there with peacekeepers etc.----but in Afganistan it is Men who have enslaved the Women and have basically declared war on them....and the UN does nothing.
I know the statues and artifacts are important are irreplacable---- but they are nothing compared to what the Taliban has done to the women of that country
posted on March 2, 2001 10:27:42 AM new
I do wish they would give the men a sample of their own medicine. You may be bigger but you have to go to sleep sometime. Will is more important than size.
posted on March 2, 2001 10:56:18 AM new
Many of my friends are Afgan refugees. Let me tell you, there is not one single one of them who isn't shocked and angered by the Taliban's intrepretation of the Quoram. The Quoram (Koran) places women upon the same level as men - see, the Communists were not the first to do that! The purpose of women (and men) wearing plain clothing is to reduce/deny vanity a foothold. A woman to cover herself up, but for the face in the traditional garb is because it is man's nature to be distracted by a woman's physical attributes. By wearing the traditonal black grab, it is meant to allow men to treat women as equals and equal minds and not sexual objects. Try reading the Quoram for yourself if you don't believe me. This is just one great wrongness of the interpretation of the Quoram perpetrated by the Taliban.
The far-right Christian Fundamentalists have the same problem as the taliban. They pick certain pasages in the Bible as their creed, while ignoring other vital parts that would make them more tolerant, more open-minded.
The only purpose of Fundamentalist Whatever religion is to "make us feel superior to everyone else, 'cause God is on our side and everyone else is gonna catch Hell-Fire!"
But Afganistan is not the first Islaamic state to be Fundamentalist: remember Iran? When Iran went to a Theoracy, they had a war with our then ally, Sadam of Iraq. They sent 12 year old boys walking across mine-fields to find live mines . . .
Of course, it's not just Islaamic Theocracies that become human horrors: our Western history is full of the horrors wreaked out Theocratic Monarchies. And America underwent a period like we are now back in the 1830's. A lot of Intolerance went on and newly formed Christian groups as well as non-Christian groups were hunted down like animals, hanged, shot, and tortured to death! Just ask any Latter Day Saint (Mormon) as to why they went West. Loads of fun to allow Fundamentalists the upper-hand! Wheeeeee!!!!
