Clasp Thine Enemy To Thy Bosom
And then be it a viper, prepare to meet thy Maker.And for what purpose? To bring peace to a troubled land? To halt his strictured society's destruction? To ensure that one clan does not obliterate the other? Above all, to do honour to the countless women and children whom the enemy has successfully targeted and from whom life has been taken.
For theirs is the true and the only way to God. And, truth is, the enemy despises the weakness of resolve that leads to its beseeching invitation to join the government of Hamid Karzai. To rule as brothers, in moderation and good faith, for the good of the people of Afghanistan. The country's president is torn with the uncertainty of how he may proceed.
He mourns the violence that has befallen Afghanistan. The unspeakable atrocities. And then, when, throughout its history has Afghanistan not known violence?
Truly it must be time that the Afghan people had its rest from bloodletting and early death, from the unceasing violence of human rights stripped from their experience. And will a Mullah Omar, embracing the universality of Islam among his peers be prepared to set aside his stern fanaticism for a kinder version of Islam?
Twice has the president of Afghanistan invited 'his brothers', his beloved countrymen, to put down their arms and join him in governing a reconstructed country looking toward the future. And twice has Mullah Omar spat in his face.
"If I hear from him that he is willing to come to Afghanistan or to negotiate for peace ... I, as the president of Afghanistan, will go to any length providing protection. If I say I want protection for Mullah Omar, the International community has two choices - remove me or leave if they disagree."
So said the desperately peace-loving and patriotic ruler of his torn country. But it is not to be, despite the secret - or not-so-secret - negotiations between the Taliban leadership representatives and Afghanistan's government representatives, so concernedly set up by Saudi Arabia.
Ah, Saudi Arabia, whose funding installed the Wahhabist madrasses which have turned suggestible youth into warriors for Islam. All those martyr-anxious complexes, eager to sacrifice for God and country. Theirs is the duty to die, and they take up the challenge with determined fanaticism.
The Afghan Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, the clans and tribal leaders in the North West Frontier Province who enrich themselves supplying the international underworld with heroin - selflessly, to further the work of Allah - have no interest in moderating their aspirations toward the establishment of a renascent caliphate.
For them, those zealots of God, the world stood still in the medieval era, and nothing worth the effort of straining toward modernity exists in the corrupt world of the West. Afghanistan and Pakistan now struggle with the ideologically twisted Pashtun world of the Talib philosophy of purity in the sacred writings of the Koran.
The young girls who have defiantly returned to school, determined to continue their education after having acid deform their beautiful faces think otherwise. While their burqa-clad mothers, twist their hands with sorrow and worry for the tenuous future of their vulnerable daughters, the daughters march toward the future.
If Hamid Karzai thinks so little of the prodigious efforts in sacrificed lives of foreign countries' soldiers striving to bring peace and security to his beleaguered country, does he think it a trifle that the fanatics of Islamism butcher women and children to ensure they remain pure to the Islamic ideal of submission?
Labels: Religion, Terrorism, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Monday, November 17, 2008
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