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Posted on 10/25/2001 5:31:18 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba
Afghanistan is going down the Nazi path of intolerance
The edict by Muhammad Wali, the Taleban religious police minister, forcing Hindus in Afghanistan to wear labels on their clothing to distinguish them from Muslims is repulsive and also revealing. Anyone with more sense of history than the blinkered and self-righteous Islamic extremists ruling Kabul would see the awful echoes of the Nazi decree forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Little wonder that not only Europe and America have reacted with horror; India swiftly denounced the proposal as deplorable and patent discrimination against minorities.
It is more than that. It is a clear indication that Taleban zealotry is moving down the same murderous and intolerant path as National Socialism. Like the Nazis, the group that swept to power with the pledge of ending the corruption and mismanagement of the warlords now maintains itself in power by intimidation. Its extremism, masking as religious fervour, was directed first at its political enemies, then at women and all those suspected of ideological opposition, and now is turned on the most vulnerable group of all, the beleaguered non-Muslims. The Taleban has already had its Kristallnacht, smashing the religious symbols and historical artefacts of its perceived enemies; now it has passed its Nuremberg Laws, institutionalising discrimination.
Luckily, there are few minorities left in Afghanistan to suffer such humiliation. Most Hindus have fled, and there are not many Christians or Jews in Afghan cities. The Taleban leadership maintains that its proposed fatwa on dress will guarantee the protection of minorities. But far from recognising different religious practices, the edict will force Hindu women to veil themselves like Muslims. In fact, it is another sign that as conditions in the country deteriorate, hardliners are taking ever more extreme positions to deflect blame, to cow a desperate population and take advantage of political divisions.
Drought has brought much of Afghanistan to the brink of starvation, and refugees are pouring into Pakistan. Much of the turmoil is Taleban-made, however. The ban on women working has left thousands of war widows imprisoned in their homes; the closure last week of the bakery funded by the United Nations has cut off one of the few outlets for subsidised bread; and the storming of the new 120-bed hospital by the religious police has shut one of the few places where victims of 21 years of war could seek treatment.
The hardening of the Taleban stance is dictated largely by the regime’s near-total isolation. UN sanctions are hurting, but pride and paranoia have sabotaged any attempt to extradite the Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden or to get peace talks going. Taleban policy is to boycott the UN, step up the ideological war and prepare the population for a new spring offensive against the Northern Alliance that still has a toehold in the north-west. Containment has become the only viable policy to deal with this loathsome regime; but, as with Nazi Germany, that offers little protection to the minorities within its borders.
Allahu Akbar, Islam is peace </vomit>
Let's turn this around. Suppose there was a "Christian theocracy" somewhere in the world, and they decided to, say, make all Muslims wear yellow crescents, forbade possession of the Qu'ran, and made the preaching of Islam punishable by death. Then, to top it off, they hijacked a couple of Arab airliners and crashed them into a major Saudi oil refinery, and into the headquarters of the Syrian defense ministry, and killed about 6000 people.
What do you think the reaction of Christian leaders worldwide would be? I'll tell you. Shock. Horror. Immediate, total, complete denunciations. No half-assed, wishy-washy "well, we're a religion of peace, so don't hurt them" statements. From the Vatican to the smallest church in East Podunk, NC, these people would be denounced in the strongest terms. No reputable Christian leader (or Jewish leader for that matter) would even try to justify what they did. Most would happily stand by and let them be removed from this earth and sent to judgement before the Most High for their sins. And they'd be right.
But now, the whole Muslim world wants our scalp for defending ourselves, trying to remove a government that's killing its own people in the name of the "peaceful" Mohammad (or Muhammad or Ralph or how-the-hell-ever you spell it) and in general actually trying to yank Afghanistan out of the 11th century and back into the company of nations.
Yeah. Real peaceful.
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I remember this from before. They also blew up ancient giant statue/rock carvings of Buddhas.
These guys are as low as they get.
This sort of info needs to be made known.
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