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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Most of what the Taliban did and will do again is pretty much how Afghans would run the country if they were in charge, Khazi's views on women are no different from the Taliban.
The Taliban are not some small group of Afghan wack jobs, philosophically they pretty much represent what most Afghans and Waziris believe, even the ones that are opposed to them.
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
it is foolish to believe that most afghans arn't sympathetic to the Talibans fundemental view of Islam.
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This is absolutely not true. There was partying in the streets after the Taliban were flushed out of Kabul, with freshly shaven men and people listening to music in the streets (Shaving and music were forbidden by the Taliban).
Anyone with any secular education in Afganistan is very opposed to the Taliban. Illustrations were banned, so people studying to be medical proffessionals, for example, had to learn about anatomy from text only books.
Most Taliban soldiers would gladly put their guns down. The only reason they picked them up was because they had no other way to provide for their families.
Rich Saudi's have been pumping money into remote rural Pakistan/Afghanistan for years to build mosques and Madrasas. The Madrasas are pretty much Taliban academies where you take completely uneducated children and teach them a cirriculum which is basically propaganda class to teach you to hate the west and weapons training. They are factories that take disadvantaged children and turn them into brain washed soldiers.
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Central Asia Insittute is an organization that has been building secular schools in these areas (with very strict requirements for the enrollment of girls as the Taliban ban the education of girls) and the American founder has recieved incredible support from local leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan for his cause. There have been a few of the wingnut fundamentalist religious leaders that have tried to leverage Islamic law to get him removed from Pakistan but they high Islamic courts in Iran have even stated that they support his work.
Your average Muslim is not a woman hating nut job. These guys are by far in the minority, but they are powerful and have large regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan by the nuts and are breeding fear/hate at an alarming pace.
We can bomb the crap out of the Taliban, but if we are doing nothing to help the battered civilians we are leaving behind on the ground with health care, education and economic development, this war is for nothing and another will soon follow.