And it’s the Italians who are actively seeking to grant him asylum. I wish it were us, but good for the Italians.
UPDATE 3/29:
The Italians have indeed granted him asylum, and Mr. Rahman has already arrived in the country. Send him your prayers and good vibes, and let’s hope he finds a good way to help the Italians and the world with his faith.
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Great, the only real ally we have in Afghanistan is in hiding! :)
I pray that he gets out before something bad happens. We might not ever know the details, if he is smart he will just disapear somewhere and never poke up his head again. He just made a lot of powerful Islamists look stupid. (Not that it’s hard…)
Ok, one more thing. What the hell are we doing defending this crap with our soldiers lives? Maybe we should just pull out and bomb them into the stone age everytime they get out of line and leave it at that. This barbaric mentality still shocks me. Frankly it scares the living s*&@ out of me. My baser instinct is to just nuke Mecca to prove that Allah isn’t going to protect them from their own stupidity. (I’m sure that the NSA is going to read this post. I am not really advocating nuclear holocaust, just expressing some fear and anger)
Junkie,
In my view, we’re in Afghanistan because of what we want and not because of the Afghanis. What this episode has taught me is that we will never, ever convert the ‘devout’ Moslems to live in peace, this is a cult rather than a religion, only a cult requires that you can never exit it (except with death). I wish people would begin to refer to Islam properly, it is a cult (and I intend for that to have a negative connotation).
Tammy, we can’t take this guy, it would inflame the Islamic world further than it already is. To that point I have to agree with Junkie’e premise somewhat, what the hell are we spending our military’s lives for on these scum? It is pretty apparent the regard they hold for Christians, isn’t it?
Hang on P.J., I understand that frustration leads to rash comments, and have done the same in the past. Here is what I think about when I read or hear the ‘nuke ‘em all’ statement: There are millions of muslims that are simply living their lives, not caring about anything but how the kids are doing in school, how the roof is going to be fixed, or how they are going to pay for a vacation this year. Just like us, only in a different world that we can hardly begin to understand. Different does not make it better or worse, just different. These quiet muslims should stand up and take their religion back from the terrorists, but it is a dangerous job, and they have lives to lead. We should stand up and take our country back from the drunken sailors in Washington, but it is a hard job, and we have lives to lead.
Meanwhile, in the politically correct arena that is the main stream media, this all has been reported to get you to ask just the question you asked: why are we there? This is one incident out of thousands of incidents, this is one man out of millions of people, and in the end, the Afghan Government got it right…while the MSM was salivating for his beheading to prove that Bush was wrong again.
Until there is true self-determination in the muslim world, there will be incidents such as this, sparked by throw-back clerics who just want power.
Viva Italia! And shame on us.
I did write that piece in a bit of an extremist mood, and I agree that it is likely that the majority of Muslims are more worried about what they are going to eat at night, than they are about assissting some terrorist. The question remains, what will motivate your average Muslim to rise up against the irresponsible leadership that currently prevails in the middle east and tell them no more. In Japan it was a nuclear bomb that told the people of Japan that they had more to lose under their current leadership than they had to lose by surrender and reform. What is the solution in this situation? What action can be taken to show the average joe blow Muslim that he has more to lose from us, than he has to lose from standing up? Or can it be done under a different model than that?
The Christian church reformed itself from the inside, but it took a long time and exacted a terrible cost on Europe before it happened. What can we really do to influnce this process? Is there a Muslim MArtin Luther out there? And if there is, can we support him? Martin Luther was the right man at the right time, but he was a real jerk and a serious anti-semite. Anyone likely to have an effect on Islam will likey have a similiar distateful side. I am just rambling here and spewing some ideas. There has to be an answer somewhere…..
I hesitate to suggest that perhaps there already WAS a Muslim Martin Luther, PJ, and his name was Sayyid Qutb. “Muslim Reformation” all sounds well and good until you realize that the west’s Reformation was a ferociously militant “back to basics” that resulted in the deaths of millions over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.