Comments on Adeimantus: If Afghanistan Executes Abdul Rahman

OK, bathus, maybe I have misunderstood you there, ...

2006-03-25T11:46:00.000-06:00

OK, bathus, maybe I have misunderstood you there, but the observation stands, that the guys who are doing the nation-building in Afghanistan do not seem to have the knowledge or competency for it. This episode is just one thing that could have been prevented if the responsible people would have looked more careful at what Karzai namely appeasing the religious and ethnic extremists

Haroon,Thanks for your comment.Please understand, ...

2006-03-24T17:20:00.000-06:00

Haroon,

Thanks for your comment.

Please understand, my post was not meant to be a commentary about Muslims or Afghanistan in general.

The post was about Americans, not about Muslims. Specifically, it was about three things only:

1. How the American people will react if a Christian in Afghanistan is executed for converting from Islam.

2. What that reaction will ultimately lead to, which is the American people fully and finally rejecting Bush's project to encourage liberalization and democratization in Islamic countries.

3. The replacement of Bush's liberalization/democratization project with a different approach, an approach that seeks to establish America's long term security against terrorism and Islamism, not by encouraging freedom and democracy among Muslim peoples, but by threatening (and if necessary preemptively using) overwhelming force against any who might contemplate attacking us.

Up to now, the two primary elements of Bush's national security foreign policy have been "nation-building" and "preemption." In Afghanistan and Iraq, for example, preemption has been followed by nation-building. First we destroy the threat, and then we help to re-build the broken society.

But if Afghanistan executes Rahman, in the future we will destroy the threat (repetitively if necessary), and leave it at that, without staying around to sort through the rubble.

As I wrote in my post, "It's not that one would want things to go that way, but if Afghanistan executes Rahman, that's how things will end up."

Not sure if you care about the opinion about a Mus...

2006-03-24T09:41:00.000-06:00

Not sure if you care about the opinion about a Muslim, seeing that you don't us much, but this is what I (and actually many others that I know from Afghanistan) think about it:

First of all, the not so backward people of Afghanistan think that it is the individual's personal business what religion he/she is a follower of. When my family lived in Afghanistan (Kabul) before the Soviet/Afghan war, my family had many Christian, Jewish and Hindu friends there.

The problem now is that Mr Karzai, a person that not only in my opinion is much to over-hyped in the western media and in certain diplomatic circles, has not been hard enough against fundamentlist and racist movements and groups in Afghanistan. The guy Karzai has appointed as Supreme Court judge (Shinwari) is one of the worst types of conservative, fundamentalist people you can find in Afghanistan (I have also heard often that he wasn't too much against the Taliban...). Some people might also know, that Karzai has repeatedly said, that the Taliban are actually good people, only 10-50 people of them are bad (and with those I think he only means the Arabs). All in all for people who know a little bit about the society and history of Afghanistan it is becoming for visible, that Karzai is slowly bringing the Pashtuns into a more dominant position and ignoring dangers regarding fundamentalism, xenophobia and other risks that come with that.

Hopefully some intelligent people will see that Karzai's "we are all brothers after all, my dear Talibs" approach is not working and will slap his fingers or support others who are genuinely against fundamentlist tendencies.

haroon

Rahman a dispute about sharing bride price?

2006-03-24T07:15:00.000-06:00

Rahman a dispute about sharing bride price?