And whose fault is this? Is it Islam? Or is it the West waging its crusade on everything that talks, walks and breathes?
If you know anything about the nasty, brutish tactics the US has used to impose control over Afghansistan over the past twenty years, you will know everything you need to know about who is the bad guy here.
The media are going into overdrive about "women's rights", "democracy", "freedom" -- the holy grails that they have used to sell their murderous war to the gullible public --, portraying the Taliban as the worst calamity that could ever have afflicted Afghanistan, all the while conveniently ignoring that, for the past twenty years, they have murdered and carpet bombed the Afghan people; propped up the fiefdoms of criminal warlords; allowed bribery, corruption, extortion, trafficking, r*pe, drug use to flourish; and tortured and killed many in Bagram and other prisons.
Its funny that you decry our morality now but you had nothing to say about the bloodshed and havoc wreaked by NATO in Afg for 20 years, and all across the Middle East, as if that is not true barbarism.
Islamic law does not judge via an
aesthetic paradigm of evaluation, but via a moral paradigm. The European can decry the allegedly barbarity of the Islamic penal code, while at the same time engaging in the most atrocious transgressions of human rights against non-Europeans in their colonial ventures. And because you are increasingly doing it from a distance (you are far-removed from the actual violence, it doesn't hurt you, it hasn't made you bleed), and now via clandestine means, killing using drones, you don't see it. You just see the final product: your comfortable lives and the final state of the third world after usurping its resources, and then you call them barbaric for the way they live and do things. And you say "ThEY haTE Us fOr oUR fReeDom." If it doesn't look good, if it doesn't seem nice, if it doesn't look beautiful, you don't accept it. "God is dead and we have killed him, what must we do now, we must become God ourselves." This aesthetic morality is based on making yourself a god, above God's own laws. Those are your standards. Where 100 years ago, it was perfectly acceptable to hang someone for sodomy, now, you allow them to be paraded them through the streets and in your churches like trophies to virtue signal your progress. 100 years ago women used to cover from head to toe, now, your entire society is sexualised, and you have problems with abuse, r*pe and sexual perversion. Your standards are not consistent, and now, as a result of the morality you are espousing, your societies are entering a period of precipitous moral decline. Homosexuality and effeminacy appear in decadent societies that are on the verge of collapse, according to the likes of the great historians like Arnold Toynbee. "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and render unto God, that which is God's." Your countries are all secularised, while our countries still hold on to God. The Taliban are attempting to espouse morality as defined by divine revelation - the Quran and the Sunnah. (If you want me to prove its divine revelation, please let me know, I am happy to explain; the more you ask, the more people will realise.)
Daniel Haqiqatjou explains: Thomas Hobbes believed that the only way to establish social order is through the top-down control of the state, and without it, society will collapse into a war of all against all, where life is "nasty, brutish and short." But as Daniel Haqiqatjou has pointed out, Thomas Hobbes' model, the model that is currently in use by your nation-states, was wrong; there is another way to generate social order and cohesion in an organic way that doesn't involve a mass imposition of a mass surveillace, technocratic, bureacratic state.
Humans are instictively social creatures which allows the bottom up establishment of social order and cohesion, and Islam strengthens these social instincts as opposed to liberalism and other ideologies, which erodes them. Islam fosters relationshipss that are important for humans instinctually, and that lead to social order: kinship - you are more likely to co-operate and not harm your blood relatives, stong ties of kinship creates solidarity and social order; male-female/heterosexual pair bonding fosters social cohesion via feelings of love, companionship and commitment; reciprocity - helping others leads to social cohesion; similarity - you and I share something, like culture, ethnicity, religion, way of dress, so we will treat each other more altruistically. Islam fosters these social linkages, and stops or punishes those practices and behaviours which erode them, in order to establish bottom up social cohesion and order. So a bureacratic surveillance modern nation-state where every person is scrutinised and observed, is not necessary as in the Hobbesian worldview. Humans are happier and more fulfilled under such states. In contrast, under liberalism, philosophical naturalism and utilitarianism, it is believed that your personal autonomy and ability to choose, is what leads to happiness. Social ties impose duties and reponsibilities on a person, and these are a detriment to one's personal autonomy and liberty. Why not simply not get married, or have children, and be promiscuous or experiment with your sexuality? - that's more pleasurable than duty and responsibility, but it less conducive to societal order and cohesion. Islam prescribes a system of life that is in perfect accord with the natural human instincts, and limits destructive human tendencies.
This standard of morality does not change, because human nature does not change, and God does not change. So my questions to you are very simple:
Why do you think its okay to bomb and murder people who committed no crime, but its not okay to stone adulterers and sodomites, and flog fornicators, who are contravening
divine laws?
Why do you think its okay that Macron in France and the ECJ can tell women how to dress, but the Taliban can't tell women they need to wear the hijab?
How can a system that has produced the likes of Bagram, Guantanamo and
Abu Ghuraib think it has any business taking the moral high ground?
It is the most pernicious propaganda, and an expression of the West's hubris, that it thinks it can enter a country, bomb its people into submission, and in the meantime, convince everyone that this their intentions are in fact noble and moral. They have accomplished this via a systematic and all-encompassing programme of propaganda, misinformation and dehumanization, characterizing the Afghans, and the people of other countries they have occupied, as savages who must be liberated and saved from their backwardness, and from Islam, by the light of Western civilization. It is their unspoken belief: "if only we bomb, occupy and pillage them in just the right way, they'll accept democracy and feminism." But these buzzwords that the public fawn over, are only continued fodder for the military-industrial complex, and are tossed aside, when they become an inconvenient obstruction to its interests.
