Pakistan, the Taliban, and Hitler’s Sneaky Little Game
Sharia law is currently in place in the Swat Valley. Sharia law used to represent noble Islamic laws meant to protect. Among them, property rights for women and welfare for the poor. Now it means women must obey their husbands and the veil. If you are suspected of adultery, you might be stoned to death. If you are raped, you are a shame to your family and you might be killed. If you are uncovered, you will surely be beaten.
As Lauren Vriens of the Council on Foreign Relations explains:
There are five hadd crimes: unlawful sexual intercourse (sex outside of marriage and adultery), false accusation of unlawful sexual intercourse, wine drinking, theft, and highway robbery. Punishments for hadd offenses include flogging, stoning, amputation, exile, or execution. … Honor killings, murders committed in retaliation for bringing dishonor on one’s family, are a worldwide problem.
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It’s important to note that most Muslim countries do not use traditional Islamic punishments. More moderate Muslim countries like Turkey, Jordan, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, and Egypt are in even more danger than the West of having this fundamentalist approach spread like a virus and further disrupt their relative peace. It’s also important to add that although these countries are moderate, honor killings still account for half the deaths of women every year in Jordan. Jordan’s own parliament overwhelming rejected a law that would impose harsher punishments for the men who kill women, claiming that stricter penalties would “encourage vice and destroy social values.”
We seem to think that egregious acts of gender inequality and slavery are only hazardous to those who live under such totalitarian regimes. We seem to think that these problems will go away if we ignore them, but we only have to look at how growing extremism in Saudi Arabia gave us 9/11 terrorists, the war in Afghanistan, and the escalation of violence in Pakistan. Meanwhile, those who suffer the most are the scores of innocent girls and women.
There is no mistaking the fact that the nations with the most stability and least amount of violence are those with the best standards of equality between the genders. Just take a look at Denmark and Sweden.
The Pakistani government can try to appease the Taliban. Politicians tried to appease Hitler. We continue to do the same with Saudi Arabia, a country that has been enslaving its women for centuries. The whole world can do a whole lot of talking and take limited action, but it doesn’t matter which way you slice it. Eventually, the problem will have to be tackled and, instead of pulling a few weeds, we will have to plow the land.
Good history lesson. The Sudeten Germans were fools. Yes, Hitler also tried a similar trick on Friesland’s population in the Netherlands, but it didn’t work. (My grandpa never did like their pagan uniforms.)
Now is the time to bring back the Civil Rights slogan: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. If it’s not true now, it never has been.
Learn from history friends.We don’t it to happen like Hitler’s plan for the world.
Taliban the gift that keeps on giving
http://www.flurl.com/video/38192563_grafic_beheading_by_taliban.htm
In many respect, Adolph Hitler was the Jesse Jackson of his era. He relentlessly employed the victim card. When caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar—he would merely respond that he was only looking out for the unfairly besieged Germans. How could anyone not trust the peaceful Fuhrer who hated war because he had seen it first hand during WWII? Can’t we all get along? After all, didn’t John Maynard Keynes also say that the Germans were treated unfairly after the Great War? Poor Adolph, he’s only doing the best that he can. Let’s cut him some slack and make sure the world remains a peaceful place. And that damn Winston Churchill needs to keep his mouth shut. The guy drinks too much and is something of a warmonger. Furthermore, do we really want to see our men die on behalf of the Jews? They are the ones behind all this tension.
I strongly recommend the DVD, “Imaginary witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust” directed by Daniel Anker. It shows how the Nazis diabolically accused anyone criticizing their regime of anti-German bigotry! The Hollywood bosses were so intimidated that they shied away from producing Anti-Nazi movies previous to America’s involvement in the war. Even Jewish filmmakers refused to make films dealing with the persecution of Jews in Germany. Jimmy Stewart’s 1940 anti-Nazi film, “The Mortal Storm” never once uttered the word Jew. This movie is also near impossible to find. The same thing is happening today regarding the making of movies dealing with Islamic nihilism. Alas, nothing has really changed.
ANTI-WAR CANDIDATE OBAMA LIVES UP TO BILLING
Doctrine comes first, national security somewhere thereafter.
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/iraq-obama-takes-his-eye-off-ball.html
lets empty out our prisons and let them establish themselves in Pakistan (Swat valley). give them 2 years of support, and get the thugs to provide security and the white collar criminals to run the economy. you got to have some advisors and we can establish democracy in the middle east. look at all the money we will save on maintenance for the prison systems. we can call it New America.
“The gradual escalation of the Czech-Sudeten confrontation resulted in forcing the leader of the Sudeten-German Party, Konrad Henlein, into the arms of Adolf Hitler…”
The Sudeten Germans didn’t have to be forced. They joyfully jumped into Hitler’s arms. Their enthusiastic collaboration with the Nazis resulted in their total expulsion from Western Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II, with the full consent of the world’s governments.
When did Shariah law stand for “Noble Islamic Laws”? Are you talking about 1000 years ago, before the Gate of Itjihad closed? Because since then, Shariah law has stood for institutionalized slavery. It has always supported the system of Dhimmitude, it has always supported punishments such as death for apostasy and cutting off the hands of thieves. It has always supported stoning adulturers and the discrimination of women. You have swallowed the BS apologist lines. Where did you get your info, Karen Armstrong, John Esposito and Dinesh D’souza?
The author really hit the nail on the head. I’ve been thinking about this Nazi/Taliban analogy for awhile. It’s really scary to think that the Taliban seems to be moving slowly but steadily to Islamabad and Lahore. I was thinking about the absurdity of the Taliban attitude towards girls and women recently when I read an article in the Times of London about this 2-year old girl who lives in London with her white mother and (looked like, not sure) Pakistani father. This little girl has one of the highest IQs ever recorded-she’s studying higher math now, and she reads like a champ. I thought, oh, my goodness, if this brilliant little girl lived in the Swat Valley, she wouldn’t even be allowed to go to school! Crazy.
Imagine how these Liberals would have reacted against Bush with todays news?: 100 collateral deaths due to US bombing in Afghanistan; 400 million dollars more to be sent to Afghanistan; more Americans troops to be sent to Afghanistan.
Being in the White House the man Liberals and the partial Press wanted it to be, they cease to play the fifth column role they played, during Bush’s term in office for now with their man In -this turns into the “right war”.