Look, I didn't post this so that anti-Muslim bigotry could get another hearing. In fact, I have known about it all day and hesitated to post it because I was afraid of that very thing. I don't claim to have any great understanding of the Muslim religion, but even I can see this happened because of the Taliban and not because the people were Muslims.
I read some of this shit written on here and can so clearly remember the adults around me, discarding the possibility than North Vietnamese, or blacks, or Puerto Ricans, or Italians, ad nauseum, were as human as you and me. I reacted then as I do now: my skin crawls as I hear yet another person assign a group to the human dump because they are "too different".
So, if it is at all possible could we please discuss why this happened? Can anything be done to change this culture? Should the US leave Afghanistan while women's rights are so endangered?
Just because someone points out that Muslims are carrying out these atrocities in the name of Islam and Sharia law does not mean they are bigoted against Muslims, it just means they recognize the dangers of the attitude that Islam is a religion of peace and that only radical Muslims do things like this.
If this was just the Taliban the entire village where this couple was from would not have participated.
If this was just the Taliban their neighbors would have stood up for a young couple in love, and not cheered their barbaric deaths.
If this was just the Taliban the children of that village would have been hidden away by their parents, not out in the village square witnessing this and celebrating.
What you have to realize is that the problem is not that radicals are trying to usurp Islam, the problem is that Islam supports radicals. I fully support the right of everyone on the planet to believe whatever they want to, but I also know that some beliefs are inherently dangerous. You would not sit in front of your computer and argue that someone who was trying to bring back the practice of human sacrifice has a right to practice their religion, so why do you argue that everyone has the right to practice Islam the way they want?
Until Islam cleanses itself of the radicals and every Muslim speaks up, and out, against things like this Islam will be the enemy of civilization. Christianity had to do it, now Islam must follow the example laid down by people like Martin Luther. Until Islam is reformed I will not trust Muslims, because they demonstrate every time something like this happens that they do not trust me.
