Refuting the Idea of Taliban
- From: Ilya Shambat <ibshambat@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 06:16:09 -0700 (PDT)
Taliban is regarded as an idea; which means that truly confronting the
Taliban means confronting their ideology. The idea behind the Taliban
is something like this: America and Israel are evil, and Muslims
should destroy America and Israel and take over the world to make the
whole world follow sharia. This idea can be highly contagious, and it
is important that it be confronted at the idea level and in so doing
reduce the need for military action.
One way to do so is as follows: If not for America, then Afghanistan
(where the idea of Taliban was put into fullest implementation) - and
the rest of the world - would be following Communism. It was America
that armed the mujaheddin, and without America's help Afghanistan
would have succumbed to the Soviet Union. And had they succumbed to
the Soviet Union, they would not be able to practice Islam period;
whereas with America as the top-dog country they have the freedom to
be as Muslim as they want to be for as long as they aren't killing
Westerners in the process.
Another part of confronting the idea of Taliban is the religious
argument. If Allah really is omnipotent, and if he wants everyone to
follow him, then he would be able to accomplish this himself without
requiring the assistance of mortals. It makes no sense to fight for an
omnipotent entity, as an omnipotent entity by definition can do
whatever he wants to do. There is no possibility of helping an
omnipotent being, and no sense of fighting for an omnipotent being,
because an omnipotent being does not need your help.
Furthermore, to avert people who stand to be attracted to the idea of
Taliban, it merits showing the reality of their rule where they have
ruled previously and are now. Afghanistan under the Taliban was the
worst place in the world. Young girls were forced to marry old men and
had sulfuric acid thrown in their faces if they weren't wearing burqa.
Music was forbidden. The people were starving except the ones who made
their money selling opium, and the cities and villages of Afghanistan
were in ruins. However many problems come with American influence or
the global economy, Taliban is much worse.
As far as the Israel argument is concerned, it bears reminding that
Israel provides a lot of benefit to the Middle Eastern countries, as
it provides them with technologies, food and manufactures while also
being a market for their products. The land that is Israel was bought
from the Middle Eastern countries, and the Muslim people who lived
there were compensated monetarily. Meanwhile the people from there who
were displaced into neighboring Muslim countries were never accepted
and never assimilated, and these people continue to undergo
discrimination from their Muslim brothers. And while Israel has -
irrigated deserts, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, and high levels of
technological innovation - its Muslim neighbors (the half-Christian
Lebanon excepted) remain ne'er-do-wells whose people continue to live
in poverty and brutality. Poverty and brutality that they blame on
Israel and America, but that are a direct consequences of their own
choices, Allah or no Allah.
Intellectual solutions cost much less in money and bloodshed than
military solutions; which is why they should be applied wherever
possible. Mental effort must be extended to finding ways to counteract
the Taliban idea and in so doing to warn people vulnerable to Taliban
indoctrination away from it. The more this is done, the greater the
savings in lives and money. This is one effort to that effect.
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