--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote:
Hillary backs reconciliation talks with Taliban if they are willing
to abandon violence
It's causing a lot of confusion in the allied troops fighting
the Taliban too. We all rush out here to help america and then 4 years later
they start doing deals without telling anyone! Do we
keep bombing them or not? How do we know who's friendly. Is anyone
really kidding themselves there is going to be a worthwhile solution
to this. Does anyone ever learn the mistakes of history.
This whole thing is a monumental disaster. Pakistan, rather than having to
fight them, has given a piece of it's own territory to
the taliban so they can practise sharia law on the inhabitants.
How is that going to do anything other than spread their disease
all over Pakistan. And every western bomb creates more fighters
ready to die for the cause. And in a country we gave the nuclear
bomb.
So apparently, if they are willing to abandon violence and pursue
their goal of implementing Islamic law by other means, that is just
fine with her. Here is yet another demonstration of the danger of
misdiagnosis of the global jihad threat: the problem is not the means
the Taliban use, the problem is their goal. The Taliban are not bad
because they are violent -- after all, so are the forces that oppose
them. However, as far as the President and the Secretary of State are
concerned, that is the only problem with them. If they try to
accomplish their goals at the ballot box rather than with guns and
bombs, Obama and Clinton would welcome them as partners. The fact
that the Taliban want to impose a law upon Afghanistan that would
subjugate women and non-Muslims as inferiors, denied equality of
rights with Muslim men, and extinguish freedom of speech and freedom
of conscience, means nothing to them.
And why should it? Karzai's Afghanistan is already a Sharia state,
according to the Afghan Constitution.
US backs reconciliation with non-violent Taliban, from AFP, March
31 (thanks to JE):
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday backed Afghanistan's
plans to hold reconciliation talks with members of the Taliban or
past Al-Qaeda supporters who reject violence.
We must ... support efforts by the government of Afghanistan to
separate the extremists of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban from those who
joined their ranks not out of conviction, but out of desperation,
she said.
They should be offered an honourable form of reconciliation and
reintegration into a peaceful society, if they are willing to abandon
violence, break with Al-Qaeda, and support the constitution
Why not? The Afghan Constitution declares that Sharia is the highest
law of the land.
Esp. interesting since the Afghan president just signed allow
legalizing rape. Hillary to you have a letter from Bill?:
It will be forever ignored or denied by those who insist that Islam
is a Religion of Peace, but in reality there is no Misunderstanding
of Islam going on here. Every provision of this law as stated in this
article, including the rule that women cannot refuse sex to their
husbands at any time or for any reason, is part of traditional
Islamic law. And so this new law is yet another indication of how the
overtures to the Taliban from official Washington are out of focus.
Will the U.S. stand up for these women and defend them? Absolutely
not, because they are being victimized by Sharia, to which Washington
has no apparent objection, and because they are not being blown up in
terrorist attacks. The passing of a law in a non-violent manner --
what's the problem? It's democracy at work!
Hamid Karzai signs law 'legalising rape in marriage,' by Ben Farmer
in the Telegraph, March 31 (thanks to Leal):
President Hamid Karzai has signed a law the UN says legalises rape in
marriage and prevents women from leaving the house without permission.
The law, which has not been publicly released, is believed to state
women can only seek work, education or doctor's appointments with
their husband's permission.
Only fathers and grandfathers are granted custody of children under
the law, according to the United Nations Development Fund for Women.
Opponents of the legislation governing the personal lives of
Afghanistan's Shia minority have said it is worse than during the
Taliban.
Mr Karzai has been accused of electioneering at the expense of
women's rights by signing the law to appeal to crucial Shia swing
voters in this year's presidential poll.
While the Afghan constitution guarantees equal rights for women, it
also allows the Shia community, thought to represent 10 per cent of
the population, the right to settle family law cases according to
Shia law.
The Shiite Personal Status Law contains provisions on marriage,
divorce, inheritance, rights of movement and
