If you ever wonder I do not have much respect for the religion of "Peace" (Islam), it is because of stories like this:
From Fox News: Over the past several days there have been news stories here in Afghanistan about the Taliban strangling an 8-year-old boy. The reports say that his father refused to turn over a police vehicle to the enemy, and so they murdered his son. Late last night, a courageous Afghan journalist named Mustafa Kazemi emailed an image of the boy that Mustafa said had been murdered. Afghans are enraged. They hate this behavior as much as we do. The boy appears to have had his eyes gouged out before being strangled to death.
And so last night I walked to the Headquarters of 4-4CAV here in Zhari District, the most active district in Afghanistan at this time. I asked what was going on tonight. A noncommissioned officer filled me in on the day’s events. We had been in a minor ambush resulting in a slight injury and a damaged MRAP, so I knew about that one. But then he explained about a boy whom he said the Taliban forced to step on an IED just down the road from here. Apparently, according to Afghans, the Taliban may have been testing a new bomb made from a soda bottle. The boy’s name is Jalil, and our people estimate that Jalil is 6 to 8-years-old. Jalil was picking grapes with his brother when the Taliban, according to reporting, told the boy to step on the bomb. It blew off his right leg below the knee, leaving hamburger on the stump, and fractured his femur. Afghans brought Jalil to the nearby American base called COP Kolk, where 4-4CAV Soldiers treated him. A helicopter took Jalil and his father to Kandahar Airfield for advanced treatment.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/26/afghan-boy-reportedly-forced-by-taliban-to-step-on-bomb/#ixzz1TFGi04Q5
It's stories like this that makes me think that many Muslims in the Middle East are barbaric. The religion of Islam treats kids and especially girls and women like crap. From honor killings, to using children to kill or be killed to using the mentally disabled to kill and be killed and to the way the Muslims treat homosexuals (why any gay person would support the religion of Islam, it is beyond me).
How anybody could kill young and innocent children in the name of religion or politics, is beyond me and these people and their supporters who do this do not have a soul or conscious.
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I will be the gay person that supports Islam. It is a huge and widely varied religion, what goes on in Indonesia is different from what happens in Morocco which is different from Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. So to say that the actions of the Taliban in Afghanistan indicate anything whatsoever about Islam (whether positive or negative) is rather misguided.
ReplyDeleteNext up, if a firm distinction can be drawn (which I doubt), the Taliban is a political movement. It stems from political motivations and the institution does a lot of twisting to Islam in order to make it conform to its political ends. Many throughout the Middle East find the Taliban to be atrocious, and many that side with it or even participate in it are moved by its political goals- unseating what appears to be corrupt ruling powers and trying to counteract Western influence. So to say that the Taliban characterizes any part of Islam, let alone all of Islam, is again rather misguided.
People kill young and innocent children in the name of religion and politics, regrettably, all the time. The IRA, the recent attacks in Norway, the Crusades (if you'll forgive me bringing that up), war in general?, aggression against Mormons in the 19th century, etc. Which in no way justifies the fact that some group in Afghanistan engages in such practices, but again, it helps to show why some group in Afghanistan doesn't flavor a worldwide religion. There are upright, devout, wonderful Muslims everywhere, and it does them a grave injustice to point to one small region of the world and say "the religion of peace strikes again."
Thank you Cody for responding but I do not agree, however.
ReplyDeleteYour arguement is well thought out but falls short in my humble opinion. I don't think most relgions are ok with killing of innocent children.
Yes, I agree with you that there are many Islam people who live quality lives and