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Despicable Beyond Contempt

Rabid Islamist fundamentalists outdo themselves in every conceivable atrocity they visit upon Muslims whom they insist on controlling, whose lives are forfeit when they behave in a manner seen by the Taliban as not conforming to the strict regime demanded by Islam. The cruelty the Taliban imposes upon their countrymen is without parallel. Their humanity has been consumed by the deadly fire of their bitter Islamism.

They made a living prison out of Afghanistan during the years of their absolute control of the country. Their strident Islamist misogynistic control of women, beating those whose burqas did not sufficiently cover them, refusing to permit widows to earn a fragile living in public, adamant that girls not be given the opportunity to attend school, forcing men to wear facial hair, denying music, poetry, dancing, kept Afghans in a living purgatory.

The new Afghanistan under its president, Hamid Karzai, with the help of foreign diplomats, aid and development agencies, along with UN and NATO forces, have built needed civic infrastructures, as well as medical clinics and schools so that all of the country's children can attend school, and so that women can achieve an education, and aspire to professions.

And wherever feasible, the Taliban attack, destroying school buildings, killing teachers, and murdering students. Their dedication to hatred and slaughter has led them to the murder of the country's police, its soldiers, and its parliamentarians. These Islamists are utterly dedicated to the overthrow of anything resembling a democracy.

Freedom is anathema to them, anything resembling Western mores an abomination; a presumption of equality between the genders, a corruption of the roles that Islam has assigned to men and to women. The country remains in dire straits as the Taliban are resurgent, and capable of ever more violent attacks.

And how vile can they possibly aspire to? How about the unspeakably cruel act of dousing six school girls on their way to school with acid, blinding two in the process, in Kandahar City. "Her sin was that she was going to school", lamented the mother of one of the blinded girls.

Labels: Terrorism, Traditions

posted by Pieface @ Thursday, November 13, 2008