There is one religion in the region that dominates and for those who follow it, being anti-feminist is normative, not extremist. Additionally, for those who follow this same religion, committing acts of terror against all non-adherents is also normative (prescribed in their holy book manual of hatred), not extremist.
The reason they were fairly modern prior to the taliban is precisely because normative Islam, as prescribed in the koran and ahadith was not being followed. Returning to following it, whether voluntary or forced, was precisely what brought them back to 7th century Arabian living standards of perpetual warfare and perpetual ignorance.
Mujahadin with child rape slaves chained to their beds?
Afghan females were at least considered human under the Communists. I'm not saying it was civilized or remotely humane, but they were better off when the Soviets were ruling them with an iron fist.
Today, almost all girls in Afghanistan are bought/sold/traded as rape slaves. Almost all "marriages" are forced and little girls who get caught reading, get executed. They're inbred and illiterate (clinically retarded), and they're all strung out on heroin and dying of AIDs because they have nothing to live for.
Communism dragged them out of the iron age for a minute. And the sad reality is that Afghanistan was once among the most sophisticated and advanced pieces of civilization on Earth. Before Islam.
I see you’ve never been to rural Afghanistan. While child sex slavery is a problem there it’s not how you portray it.
These are real problems but they are hardly “almost all”. These are confined to the more poverty stricken areas and even then they are taboo.
Inbreeding isn’t even common and clans know. To be inbred are stigmatized. Also heroin isn’t common... I was in Marjah, Sangin, and Musa Qala... fresh white opium is used and mixed with massage but heroin is more of an export.
Yet we work with the Taliban on their new pipeline.
Look at pictures from Kabul in the 70s. Afghanistan was modern. It’s the religious extremists who are anti-feminist now but we are proving them up.
Bacha Bazi is a real thing.
There is one religion in the region that dominates and for those who follow it, being anti-feminist is normative, not extremist. Additionally, for those who follow this same religion, committing acts of terror against all non-adherents is also normative (prescribed in their holy book manual of hatred), not extremist.
Yeah but they were fairly modern prior to the Taliban. It’s similar to Iran pre-Islamic Revolution.
The people as a whole are unique from the ideas that are enforced.
The reason they were fairly modern prior to the taliban is precisely because normative Islam, as prescribed in the koran and ahadith was not being followed. Returning to following it, whether voluntary or forced, was precisely what brought them back to 7th century Arabian living standards of perpetual warfare and perpetual ignorance.
Not gonna argue there. I think fundamentalist Islam is by nature violent as opposed to say fundamentalist Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, etc.
My point is solely that they -can- reconcile their culture with a more democratic approach.
Sad commentary on Islam that even vicious oppressive Communist rule was more civilized.
Depends man.. What the Russians did there was evil but some of the same stuff old Mujahadin told me the Russians did is what the Taliban do.
I think it’s safest to say that zealots will be zealots and 99% of people are just trying to live.
Mujahadin with child rape slaves chained to their beds?
Afghan females were at least considered human under the Communists. I'm not saying it was civilized or remotely humane, but they were better off when the Soviets were ruling them with an iron fist.
Today, almost all girls in Afghanistan are bought/sold/traded as rape slaves. Almost all "marriages" are forced and little girls who get caught reading, get executed. They're inbred and illiterate (clinically retarded), and they're all strung out on heroin and dying of AIDs because they have nothing to live for.
Communism dragged them out of the iron age for a minute. And the sad reality is that Afghanistan was once among the most sophisticated and advanced pieces of civilization on Earth. Before Islam.
I see you’ve never been to rural Afghanistan. While child sex slavery is a problem there it’s not how you portray it.
These are real problems but they are hardly “almost all”. These are confined to the more poverty stricken areas and even then they are taboo.
Inbreeding isn’t even common and clans know. To be inbred are stigmatized. Also heroin isn’t common... I was in Marjah, Sangin, and Musa Qala... fresh white opium is used and mixed with massage but heroin is more of an export.