Far from inspiring contrition and a readiness to show themselves to be the worthy owners of a brand new free society, the Abdul Rahman apostasy case seems to have inspired in Afghans only a desire to crack down on the uppity dhimmis.
"More Christians Arrested In Wake Of ‘Apostasy,’" from Compass Direct, with thanks to AJ:
March 22 (Compass) – An avalanche of media coverage of an Afghan man facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity has apparently sparked the arrest and deepening harassment of other Afghan Christians in the ultra-conservative Muslim country.Authorities arrested Abdul Rahman, 41, last month for apostasy, a capital offense under strict Islamic laws still in place in Afghanistan, which four years ago was wrested from the Taliban regime’s hard-line Islamist control.
During the past few days, Compass has confirmed the arrest of two other Afghan Christians elsewhere in the country. Because of the sensitive situation, local sources requested that the location of the jailed converts be withheld.
This past weekend, one young Afghan convert to Christianity was beaten severely outside his home by a group of six men, who finally knocked him unconscious with a hard blow to his temple. He woke up in the hospital two hours later but was discharged before morning.
“Our brother remains steadfast, despite the ostracism and beatings,” one of his friends said.
Several other Afghan Christians have been subjected to police raids on their homes and places of work in the past month, as well as to telephone threats.
Again one notes the severe compulsion. It's reminiscent of the behaviour of the party officials in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. Anyone who expresses any doubt about the enterprise immediately becomes a subject for repression.
I'm reminded of Cherie Blair's presentation of the wearing of the hijab in the Shabina Begum as an act of personal choice. It wasn't, of course. The brother, a member of Hizb ut-Tahir (the girl's parents were both dead) wanted to grab concessions on behalf of a belief-system that represses individual self-expression. Creeping sharia.
Doubtless people think something along the lines of, "This silly girl has wasted a lot of taxpayer's money." However, who knows what the girl would do were she really able to exercise choice? I wouldn't presume to able to guess. And in her situation, with her parents out of the picture, if she wished to wear the shalwar kameez instead, whom could she turn to for support? I wonder if such thoughts have ever entered Mrs Blair's consciousness.
I wonder how just how many Muslims would leave the fold in countries such as Afghanistan, if there were no price to pay, official or unofficial, state or societal, for doing so.
Wow me again. Six "men" (probably armed) put one unarmed Christian man into the hospital after beating him severely. I am so impressed at the manliness of these "men." Pardon me, as I must vomit. cair, be embarrassed,be very embarrassed.
Billions of dollars and thousands of coalition lives have been sacrificed, and for wha? Legitimising sharia in Iraq and Afghanistan?
The only good thing to come out of this is to show that no matter what we do, no matter the sacrifice in blood and treasure to give muslims the option for freedom, they will always choose sharia.
Please pray for persecuted Christians in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and the muslim world. In prayer meetings, Bible study groups, Sunday services, and other places, pray for them. How it will help I do not know, but help it will.
You know what I don't understand? How come these Christian peace activists and social workers are not concerned about the plight of the Christians in Afghanistan and the rest of the Muslim world yet they are very cocerned about the Muslim Palestinians, the Muslim Iraqis, and the Muslim Chechens? Really, WHAT are they thinking? Why do they seek to help those who are killing their brethren?
Pat Tillman died for this?
The major population centers are the limit of governmental control. Most of Afghanistan is still controlled by warlords and religious leaders. All of them are seeking to regain control of their little enclaves. Although we need to raise a little heck and protect these Christians (and any other non-muslim) don’t sell the Afghans short just yet. This is a major test of tolerance and international relations. I for one still have hope that common sense backed with a little international pressure will bring an expectable solution. From a tactical stand point every time they “arrest” a Christian it gives our MI geeks a little nudge to pay more attention to an area. Hopefully, a few hundred soldiers will pay a little visit to these areas soon.
I think an easy and quick way to fix hte situation would be for Bush to call over there and remind them how quickly we toppled the Taliban. Maybe give them a little "nudge" with a cruise missile?
We actually, "nudge" them more than most folks realize :-)just not with cruise missiles. We have some great people in the box they have or will get a handle on this.
Igor
Because the anti-Israel and anti-Christian Leftist activists have very cleverly misled Christians into believing that Palestinians and muslims in general are the victims of Jews and Christians. I know the situation in my church. They are by and large very nice people, who cannot believe that any religion actually calls for the mass killing of others. Even when showed the text, they think it must be some trick of the translation. Only recently is a chink of light penetrating their minds.
So go to churches and other such venues. Hold prayer vigils for beleaguered Christians in the muslim world. Inform people that Palestninian Christians are fleeing from their historic towns and into Israel, due to peresecution from muslims.
Well folks, I've been a consistent supporter of this Administration's actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. I believe there was a strategic necessity for both invasions...and I believe the enterprise of constructing a Democratic polity in both countries was/is a valid one. I think those that claim the Karzai government is no different than the Taliban are willfully blind to realities on the ground.
Having said all that, I also believe that the state-sanctioned murder of religious apostates is a barbarity that simply cannot be swept under the rug. If we were ever in a position to moderate a given country's internal policies, it is today in Afghanistan. Should Bush choose not to do so, then the entire moral ediface of his "War on Terror" comes crumbling down.
The Prez's position on the Dubai Port deal was inexplicably craven. I lost alot of respect for him then and my status as a supporter has become unmistakenly luke-warm. Should he acquiesce in the murder of Abdul Rahman, I'm writing him and his presidency off completely and will start concurring with my liberal interlocutors that he is utterly clueless and ineffectual.
Let's just hope the threat of the Italians and Germans to bolt from their responsibilities in Afghanistan is sufficient enough to galvanize this apparently very confused President into turning up the heat on Karzai. There is a profound moral principle involved that overlaps all other issues here...including national security.
"You know what I don't understand? How come these Christian peace activists and social workers are not concerned about the plight of the Christians in Afghanistan and the rest of the Muslim world yet they are very concerned about the Muslim Palestinians, the Muslim Iraqis.."
-- from a posting above
These "Christian peace activists" need to be renamed. They use the word "Christian" as a cover. There is nothing identifiably Christian about them. They have demonstrated not the slightest interest in the persecution of Christians. They claim moral neutrality when to do so is to take the side of the wicked (now that's a term I doubt they use -- "wicked"). They are mainly interested in declaring their solidarity with Muslims, and in particular, with those Muslims who are most mlitantly Muslim. They are resolutely antisemitic in their complete lack of sympathy for the terrible situation of Israel and the gigantic forces, and pathologies, arrayed against it -- and indeed their animus toward Israel easily grades into lack of sympathy, and hostility, to Jews all over.
They should never be referred to as "peace activists." Give them another name (I'll think of one, but only after coffee). Meanwhile, to make the point, call the Duke and Dutchess of Windsor, when they flew to see Mr. Hitler, "peace activists." Call William Kunstler a "peace activist." Call Ribbentrop, when he made that pact with Molotov, a "peace activist." Come to think of it, call Molotov a "peace activist." Call Joseph Stalin, supporter of all kinds of conferences on "peace" (see Helsinki, 1949, with that dove of Picasso) a "peace activist." Call Yasser Arafat a "peace activist."
Use the term, again and again, to mock it every which way. Of course, make sure to note that while Stalin, former theology student, was a "Christian peace activist" when he sent Molotov to make that "peace pact" in order, as Stalin would, to "desperately prevent the outbreak of war," and that Chamberlain was a "peace activist," and there are so many "Christian peace activists" just like that and, of course, there are also "Muslim peace activists," such as Arafat, and they deserve credit to, as "peace activists." Make it a term that will arouse, as it now should, suspicion and contempt.
Make language work for you.
As hard as it is to look through the eyes of these leftists, even if they are "Christian" at all, I think they don't see the goal as sufficiently worthy or free enough of internal confliction with their world view (and certainly isn’t in their narrow talking points and marching orders). That is, as rapped up in Palestinianism/Palestinolatry and Replacement theology as they undoubtedly are, going up as a martyr working to undermine or repair against the Great Satan in Iraq is somehow noble. Getting mired in national sovereignty issues against the kindred of their ever-forgivable favorite darling victims (and horrors, being on the side of the Great Satan occupiers to boot!) just doesn't tally up above threshold for intervention as a "just cause". Too little personal glory payoff, too much cognitive dissonance.
DP, Cornelius, Hugh, and others:
I'm not really surprised about how unconcerned these so-called "Christian" peace activists are when some of the brethren are persecuted by Muslims. Remember, a Quaker is nothing but a Ranter or Leveller firebrand who's had an unhppy run-in with Cromwell's Ironsides. Hence, they've been rankling that someone else got to try out a Holy Commonwealth in Anglophone Lands, and subvert whenever they have a chance. They'll scream bloody murder over an axe murderer going to the gurney Stateside, but will insist we've "got to understand" when faced with a Stalin, Mao, or Bin Laden.
Further, too many denominations have jettisoned belief in original sin. That is why they are taken by surprise when baddies surface.
Cornelius,
I think Bush has lost his way. Surrounded by dhimmis and advisors ignorant of Islam (look how little they understood Sharia and its implications after being enshrined in the Constitution.) Now look at him trying to ram his guest worker and backdoor amnesty down the throat of America's citizens. He knows what is best for us, not us.
It is sad to see such incompetence.
I still want him and Condi to answer my question - "Have you read the Koran, at least one of the Hadiths and Sera of Mo?" How can we expect anything smart from our political leaders when they refuse to study Islam (other than 'talking points' like 'religion of peace', 'noble religion', quotes from the Koran that have been abrogated). You shake your head and move on. I am trying to educate my Senators and Congressment. It's the least I can do.
John,
We're all working in our own ways to further the cause of freedom. Robert has obviously made it his life's work. Your methodology is to write letters to your duly-elected representatives in Congess. Mine is to educate through my discourse with those in my life, to post the occasional comment here, and perhaps most importantly, through my music.
In no way do I intend to just "shake my head and move on"...but I can say with certainty that my continued defense of this Administration's policies is entirely dependent upon the satisfactory resolution of the Abdul Rahman case and any others like it that emerge in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Though I am intensely ideological myself, I'm also a realist and believe in fighting and prevailing against the enemies of freedom (not confined to the Islamic world) in the geo-political arena. Though I have nothing but loathing for Islam as a religion-ideology, I have been a consistent advocate of working with so-called moderate Muslims against violent jihadis. I DO make distinctions between the likes of Hamed Karzai and the Taliban, between Jordan's Abdullah and Musab al Zarqawi, etc...and believe that those who don't are making a huge strategic mistake.
On the other hand, there are some principles that are non-negotiable...and freedom of conscience is one of them. If Abdul Rahman is executed, either by decree or by private citizen on the street after his release, the United States should reconsider its entire relationship with the Afghan government.
I hope the President understands the gravity of the situation...and the fact that his base is prepared to abandon him en mass over this issue. If one believes he is a political cripple now, the aftermath of Abdel Rahman's execution will surely make a shambles of his "War on Terror."
Dealing with such unruly rabble will certainly prepare Condi for her future job as NFL Commissioner. Condi, may I introduce you to Terrell Ownesn and Keshawn Johnson?
Why our Western countries spill millions and millions of their citizens'hard-earned tax money into this useless garbage dumps? Not only our money, our young soldiers are slaughtered at the alter of these Monsters.
These Western Muslims entice,and trap our people to the false glory of Islam,and convert them ,and parade them openly,with a clumsy smile on their faces. At the same time, a single convert from Islam to Christianity is such a great disgrace to them,and they want to kill this person as per their Shaiya law. What a peaceful religion Islam is!! This serves as a lesson to our yengsers,pearicularly ,our women,and girl students,who,without knowing the after effect,or the consequeces,convert to Islam,as a 'Just lets see" attitude,or unaware of their boy friend's evil motive. They will be fed with all rosy,false pictures of that trecherous cult,and our innocent sons and daughters,who have been brought up in freedom to select their own faith for themselves,fall into this bottomless pit. They dont realise that it is a one way trap,and when they really experiance the true nature of this religion,want to escape,and rush out, they will find their exit- doors are closed and are traped inside. They are unaware,before they become Muslims,that when once they pronounce the 'shrada'(promise to become a muslim),in an unknown language of Arabic,which is playfully taught to them by their boy friends,they will automatially become Muslims.and if they want to comeout of it,they cannot do it,and if they do. Death is the punishment.
So it is our duty,if we know any of our friends,or relatives,who have an affair with a Muslim-particularly students-and they are intending to change their religion,we have to warn them of this "ONE WAY TRAP-THAT IS ISLAM.
I wonder how many of our 'leaders' know what the population of Afghanistan is.
Well, just in case they're reading here, it's approximately 30 million. And of those folks, 1 percent are non-Muslims.
That may seem a small percentage, but the number pencils out to 300,000 people who could conceivably be jailed, prosecuted, and subjected to jail time or a public execution.
Condi, are you reading this?
George? Karen?
And the moon-god demands more human blood sacrifices.. cult..
And most (if not all) of these people are almost certainly headed for execution camps, I can virtually guarantee it.
And, while in the process of perpetrating yet another horror that would do 'Twilight Zone' proud, Islam's actions prove that my perception of it as the world's largest death squad with Muslims being killer-zombies was eerily accurate.
Who would have thought that Karzai was a killer-zombie?? Not I. But he is.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...especially in Islamic matters. What more can we expect from lunar-tics. The best of them, the cream of the crop, howl at the Moon five times a day...How can you negotiate with that? Bush has to get his messages to them between howlings. Thats hard to do. It's a lot like a drunk in a dark room full of empty boxes, looking for the light switch. The whole problem is with Sharia law...Mohammad and his prophet Allah concocted Islam to fleece the flock and keep them fleeced. This fleecing worked so well that it became institutionalised. The champions of the existing order of Islam, are driven to enforce Sharia law, so that the fleecing can continue and grow. A good fleecing by Islam, backed up by Sharia law guarantees...loot...and lots of it...and they can do all that while howling at the moon five times a day...
Allah is simply amazing...aint he?
What was the thugee cult famous for again?
All these murderous thugs will listen to is moabs, daisy-cuttters and cruise missiles. Dont bother trying to reason with these zombies, its pointless.
plus were ichy to see what a moab,will do.I done know if we have used 1,but i remeber the one they tested in florida,i think
Call the "peace activitsts" what they really are: Marxists. And don't be stingy with the synonyms. Also call them leftists, socialists, secular humanists, globalists, globo-socialists, or just plain pinkos and commies. Above all, call them liberals. Call up the MSM and call them dirty rotten bastards. Then give the war coward John Kerry a call, he's got spare time now.
Make all these calls and the fog just may clear.
Billions of dollars and thousands of coalition lives have been sacrificed, and for wha? Legitimising sharia in Iraq and Afghanistan?
exactly my thoughts- why the waste of innocent American troops for them to back slide into tyrrany. If this is the way they see democracy and freedom then maybe we should pull out and let them kill each other.
One solution is to offer this man refugee status but really their goverment needs to protect freedom of religion but I suppose it is not the agenda of our government to care about Christians. If they continue down this path then maybe we should pull out of Afganistan.
I work with one Afgan refugee and I am helping him with his English but he told me that he was happy to get out of Afganistan because people are just killing each other with little discrimination. He is educated and he says it is the uneducated Muslims who are causing the trouble over there. Strange, he thinks we have too many laws here but hopefully he will respect our way of life and no longer desire Islamic law. I could sense he could be easily swayed by the extreme Islamist but hopefully he won't. We have few Muslims in my area for now.
From the International Christian Concern
http://www.earnedmedia.org/icc0320.htm
First, the Afghani leaders who accepted the constitution knew full well what they wanted. They said so at the time and were quite satisfied at the outcome. So let us not give credit to those who do not deserve it.
What is clear also from this is that many are still unaware of the principle of Abrogation.
The other is that they feel that the superior court judges in Afghanistan are ignorant of sharia and have to be reminded of the principles of sharia.
I wish good and well meaning people in the West with a smattering of knowledge of islam, very probably gleaned from Taqqiya masters or the Guardian, understand that these islamic judges know far better then they, what constitutes sharia principles and practice. They should atleast give these judges that credit if nothing else.
Thanks for showing the hypocrisy of the Muslim Clerics and their obscene spin on Quran scripture and the teachings of Mohammad. Since he, (this poor Afghan convert) is now Christian, now he is now one of my bretheren and martyrdom is what these idiotic and typical Muslim criminal Clerics and Mullah's are creating. A day of Reckoning is at hand and Freedom To Serve God in any way possible, is at stake. Their use of ' Sharia' as a basis to asassinate him is no different than the belief systems of all those sick, murdering, jihadist, terrorists. They are exactly the same as those that slaughter and mutilate our people, and their own people, in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world all in the name of Allah. What a lot of B.S. 'Sharia' or "The path to the watering hole" is a way to summarily punish (a poorly vieled euphemism for Murder) those who would disagree with the equally murderous, arrogant, corrupt, selfish as well as ignorant Clerics and Mullahs. "Jihad (struggle with) that you Stupid Jerks.
P.S.
The Quran states about non-Muslims and makes no distinction between those of life long or converted beliefs:
They are not all alike. Among the People of the Scripture is an upstanding community. They recite the signs of God and spend the night prostrate (in prayer). They have faith in God and the Last Day and they command what is right and forbid what is wrong. And they strive with each other to do good works. Such are of the righteous. What they do of good will not be rejected. And God knows those who fear Him - Surah Ali Imran verses 113-115
Or would you like to again, bastardize the teachings of the great Prophet?
To DP111
And should I also give credit to Hitler's 'Well Studied in Murder' Henchmen; who knew, studied and PUT INTO PRACTICE the use of Zyklon B, the insecticide that played a major role in the murder the 6 millions of "People"... Not just Jews! Any Idiot can use a bullet... but no! These well educated and learned Sadists with all their wisdom, coldly justified the 'economies of scale' for murder. I see no difference here. I give credit to no murderer or group of murderers. but God will give credit to those murderers. To their demise and summary rejection from paradise, and His presence. Tossed to the abyss of eternal damnation and death.
God is Allah and Allah is God! Don't try to isolate any person of God with the obvious bigotry of using a particular name for the ONE and only God to seperate me from my Bretheren who are those who serve that One God collectively be they Muslim, Christian, or Jew!
TR posted: God is Allah and Allah is God!
I beg to disagree. My God is a loving God while allah is a loveless creature.
Remember the tame Yale Taleban. Well apparantly he was the same
"Taliban official Rehmatullah Hashmi, an official from the Taliban's foreign ministry, shows a book confiscated from the International Assistance Mission, IAM. Eight foreign aid workers have been arrested and are on trial on charges of preaching Christianity."
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/ClintonTaylor/2006/03/23/190918.html
I suppose the penalty would have been death.
For DP111
Wrong Chump,
You are Your Own god and have delusions of Your own worth and a demented sense of love and caring. You only beleive in yourself, and to truly love GOD you must base it on belief. I expect that he, your god, will be speaking directly to you at any moment now.
Additionally, I propose you are also an anti-Semite as well. Again, I don't care how anyone names the ONE TRUE GOD. Call him what your culture, heritage, and religion embraces. For in the long run, it is just compulsive human nature to find a way to label something they can't comprehend. It is just a way to describe HE that HAS NO NAME and there is only ONE! GOD-ALLAH-YAWEH are interchangable on earth, But in Heaven it all leads to the ONE true God, and he IS the Almighty ONE. You are part of the problem by using a Cultural label for GOD as a basis to spread your hate and bigotry. You mistakenly interchange, in your own ignorant and twisted mind, the name ALLAH for those who have twisted His teachings and kill in His name. By not capitalizing the name ALLAH you dishonor the ONE true GOD, for this is HIS name, as equal as other name we humans care to call unto him with. I see little difference between you and a bloody, self indulgent, and murdering terrorist. It doesn't matter what they call THEIR god, because their god is 'evil incarnate' somewhat like your god. Not the One true GOD; the all seeing and all knowing, All loving, omnicient Master of the infinite universe. Regardless of how we name HIM.
The word you are looking for is "Chrislam".
Islamic friendly Christianity, taught under the guise of multi-culturalism, and coming straight out of American Theology institutes, with PHd's.
It produces men like Burton L. Mack, a Christian with a PHd from Claremont Theology School in California, whose studies and writings seek to "steal" Christ from Christianity, in the same manner that Islam seeks to "steal" Christ from Christianity, by making him a Muslim.
Burton L. Macks research seeks to remove the identity of "savior" from the concept of Christ by defining him in Roman Hellenistic terms, which require us to believe that much of what is written in the new testament is simply "myth". He describes Christianity as a marginal movement of the disinfranchised.
He was tutored by great Christians scholars like Joseph Hough, who now operates the Unity Theology school in New York.
In Hough's mission statement: "Education for Christian leaders at the new Union will be far more attentive to the changing face of religious America. The growing pluralism of faith communities will become a major focus of theological reflection, and the practices of world religions in a WORLD CITY will be critical to education for Christian leaders."
Mr. Hough, why and how is the face of religion changing in America? Who is changing it? What do you mean by growing pluralism of faith, and world city?
In an interview with Bill Moyers, Hough repeatedly used the phrase "the sons of Abraham" to refer to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, as if they were one in belief, purpose, and ideology.
Mr. Walid Phares, in his book, "Future Jihad", explains this phenomenon as a top-down infiltration of the educational network in this country, apparently even our sacred seminaries, the very stronghold of Christianity. I have decided to call it Chrislam, the new politically correct religion of the day.
Well, apparently for Christianity to retain its identity, professors are not enough. The bible alone is not enough. Somehow there needs to be authoritative teaching and Tradition.
The good news today is that one teaching authority (pope and cardinals) decided to be more aggressive in demanding reciprocity in matters of religious freedom. More high profile statements demanding respect for Christians and other religious minorities in Muslim countries.
What is needed is a list of countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan etc and a list of companies and individuals which do business with these "nations".
I suggest a boycott of companies which are involved in trading with extremist Muslim countries and pressure to be put on individuals who support these intolerant murderous barbarians.
If we don't then we will see people being killed in New York, London, Sydney for "blasphemy" and rejecting Islam.
Do nothing about it and it could be your children who are standing in front of imams pleading for their lives.
Boycott Islam, NOW!
TR
What is clear from your angry and hateful post is that allah is your god. It does seem to be a characteristic.
You fail to mentioned Hindus, Buddhists and others, who also are God's children. You call me CHUMP - that is your liberty but it shows the mindset that you have. It is a pity that you show no love for God's children of whatever persuasion.
This thread is about the dire predicament that Abdul Rahman faces for abandoning islam and becoming a follower of Jesus. His life is in the balance because of the laws of islam that ordains his death because of his new faith in Jesus. It is those laws that are in question regardless of Abdul Rahman's release or not.
I hope though that sometime in the future the love and compassion of Jesus will enter your life as well.
Icedragon.
Give us a list of companies to boycott.
DP111:
You handled that situation very well. My hat goes off to you!
TR,
If "allah" is loving, then why does his alleged messenger command that people who leave Islam be killed? If all paths lead to Heaven, why the need to kill those who leave Islam? (That is a rhetorical question BTW)
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57:
Narrated 'Ikrima:
Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to 'Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn 'Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's Apostle forbade it, saying, 'Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire).' I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
Quoted from :
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/084.sbt.html
As a side note, this site http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA
has a good collection of Muslim texts (Koran, Hadith) for those who want to read them. It is hosted by a Southern Californian University, so the commentary is pro-Islamic (and usually wrong).
If l may quote Wafa Sultan the brave women who saw the light and rejected islam.
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Wafa Sultan: "The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of RELIGIONS, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on the other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete."
i used to support George Bush. But im glad he's only got this term of office. he keeps on making the wrong decisions. The war on iraq was a mistake. He should have held off and waited to see what the middle east done next. But the amount of American troops that have died for a pretend democracy just sickens the stomach. He's not being firm enough, he's trying to pretend that this is a war on terror, but its not a war on terror. Its attack on an ideology. An ideology thats always going to point the finger at the states and blame them for everything, however small, that happens to them.
Why cant he just point the finger back, and call a spade a spade? He's tip toe-ing around to many things. He's sending out mixed messages.
If you dont identify the problem, how you going to solve it? He's not fit to lead.
Is there any wonder why Christians in Afghanistan will not come out of the closet?