By Dr. Sami Alrabaa
During his electoral campaign in 2008 Mr. Barack Obama said repeatedly that if he was elected president of the United States of America, he would talk to the Taliban.
At the time, Obama’s rival, Ms. Hillary Clinton described Obama’s wish as “naïve and irresponsible”.
Now she is Obama’s Secretary of State and has got to obey her boss.
But is it really possible to appease the Taliban?
First of all, the Taliban are a heterogeneous group of radical Muslims. Each group has got its own warlord, and rules a state within a state. But all of them want to impose the Shari’a law, a stone-age law, which is anti-women, against modernity, and anti-non-Muslims.
The Taliban finance their local “empires” and weapons through drugs, force Afghans to pay Zakat (a kind of taxes), and blackmail development projects through “protection money”.
Muhsen, an Afghan engineer (who does not want to be identified by his last name) and who works for the GTZ (a German development organization), told me during his last to Germany, where his parents live under an asylum status. Read more ...
During his electoral campaign in 2008 Mr. Barack Obama said repeatedly that if he was elected president of the United States of America, he would talk to the Taliban.
At the time, Obama’s rival, Ms. Hillary Clinton described Obama’s wish as “naïve and irresponsible”.
Now she is Obama’s Secretary of State and has got to obey her boss.
But is it really possible to appease the Taliban?
First of all, the Taliban are a heterogeneous group of radical Muslims. Each group has got its own warlord, and rules a state within a state. But all of them want to impose the Shari’a law, a stone-age law, which is anti-women, against modernity, and anti-non-Muslims.
The Taliban finance their local “empires” and weapons through drugs, force Afghans to pay Zakat (a kind of taxes), and blackmail development projects through “protection money”.
Muhsen, an Afghan engineer (who does not want to be identified by his last name) and who works for the GTZ (a German development organization), told me during his last to Germany, where his parents live under an asylum status. Read more ...
Source: New Media Journal
H/T: Gramfan
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