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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (4746)	12/12/2000 11:47:55 PM
From: E	Respond to of 28931

Are you under the impression I advocated sending the Taliban back to Allah in body bags? I believe I posted a petition in case anyone was interested.

To: average joe who wrote (4746)	12/13/2000 12:31:56 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Would the world be a better place if they were obliterated? Send them back to Allah in body bags? What do you think their mothers, daughters and sisters would have to say about that. Intelligent and provocative question, AJ. Goes back to before Plato. What is GOOD? Mr. Taliban has (or will) slaughter 13 people. These people will only suffer while dying. Their family and friends will suffer a great deal longer. If Mr. Taliban dies, he will only suffer while dying. His relatives and friends will suffer a great deal longer. There is a geometric ratio available to the understanding here... Would the world be a better place if Mr. Taliban was obliterated? Great question. If the 13 deaths were in our own family, it would be so much easier to answer. Would do you think, averagejoe??

To: average joe who wrote (4746)	12/13/2000 8:31:10 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 28931

The Taleban did not arrive on earth by reverse osmosis, they sprang from the loins of Taleban mothers. Wherever do you get these notions? The Taleban did not exist before the early 1990's; the movement began among Muslim seminarians of the Pathan tribe, in Peshawar. It drew its inspiration from the Muslim fundamentalism of the middle east and its material support from Pakistan, much of it provided by Islamic radicals elsewhere. It is largely an instrument for Pathan domination, and is widely resisted among non-Pathans. Getting rid of the Taleban will not in itself solve the problems of Afghanistan. Most of the groups opposing the Taleban are cut from the same cloth; few capable of moderate or progressive leadership survived the wars. But that does not mean we need to accept the Taleban as an inevitability, or pretend to ourselves that they have some sort of historical mandate to oppress their people.