Jamaat al-Muslimeen International Press Release
(from an observer) (somewhat tongue-in-cheek)
AFGHAN CHILDREN DYING OF SANCTIONS-DERIVED DEPRIVATION
FAMILIES OF ONE MILLION MARTYRS RECEIVED NO REPARATIONS
BUT DANGER to STATUES BRINGS WORLDWIDE OUTCRY
On the face of it, Taliban's plan to destroy giant statues of
Buddha
does not show good thinking. The statues are not being worshipped by
anyone.
There is no Buddhist population in Afghanistn for whom the statues
could be a
rallying point for other-than-Allah worship (shirk or associationism).
Thus
the Taliban move makes no sense. The whole world now sees Taliban as
anti-culture and this helps the U.S. to tighten the noose around
Afghanistan.
However, the question arises: What comes first: human beings or
cultural artifacts? Look at the record of "culturally advanced"
nations:
1. USSR (which spent millions of dollars on the advancement of culture)
occupied tiny Afghanistan. The Afghans had to give one million martyrs
to
force the Soviets to withdraw. Russia (USSR's successor regime) has
paid no
reparations to war-ravaged Afghanistan. Instead the USA is helping
Russia to
improve its economy.
2. Culturally advanced FRANCE occupied Algeria, tried to destroy
Islamic way
of life by turning Algeria into a major producer of wine. The Algerians
fought a bitter war to force France to leave: Cost a million Algerian
martyrs. France never paid a cent to the Muslims of Algeria. Instead it
helped to impose a barbaric military regime on the Algerians which has
been
killing women and children and blaming it on Muslims.
3. CULTURALLY ADVANCED UK, USSR and GERMANY fought each other
tooth-and-nail
from 1939-45, destroying hundreds of cities and killing millions of
civilians. They relished bombing each other on Christmas.
4. Culturally most advanced USA, committed genocide of the "RED
Indians" and
stole their lands. For 400 years, USA practiced the slave trade while
its
culture developed. USA dropped atom bombs on Japan, incinerating two
cities
in their entirety and firebombed Tokyo killing hundreds of thousands of
people. Horrible crimes were committed by culturally advanced USA in
Vietnam.
In Korea, the US troops machine gunned hundreds of FRIENDLY (pro-US)
civilians for fear that one or two of them might be enemy spies.
Today these "culturally advanced" countries are telling Afghanistan:
i. Forget about your one million martyrs.
ii. Forget about your starving and freezing children
iii. Forget about the fact that the Soviets wiped out your
infrastructure.
(Of course for Europe, in similar circumstances, we had the Marshall
Plan,
but you are colored people, wear funny clothes, and above all, are
Muslims.)
iv. Forget about USA's role in keeping Afghanistan destabilized.
JUST DON'T DO ANYTHING TO THE STATUES otherwise it will prove that you
are
barbarians and "we" are civilized.
One friend says, if Mulla Omar had been on the same wavelength as the
rest of
the world, he would have asked for money for the upkeep of the statues,
advertised the statues and brought in thousands of tourists. (As in
Egypt,
casinos, night clubs, taverns and "boat parties" would have "civilized"
Afghanistan.)
Dear Afghans, if this reaches you, Islamically you don't have to
destroy
those statues. Keep them under wraps. The history of the past has value
as
long as there is no danger of the revival of paganism. Look at how the
Turkish generals have "preserved" our mosques, allowing no one to pray
in
them while making tourist dollars of them.
(Do you hear the United Nations protesting to Turkey that why the
Muslims are
being deprived of the right to use the mosques for worship. Remember
the
Muslims are still the majority in Turkey.)
As for Babri Masjid in India, no voice has risen from the "culturally
advanced" countries although that mosque was very old.
Nor do we hear any punishment imposed on the Serbs for the destruction
of
hundreds of beautiful mosques in Serbia.
You see Muslims are not "culturally advanced", so it's okay to destroy
their
mosques, or use them for tourism. But if a non-Muslim artifact is
damaged, it
proves that the Afghans should be starved to death. (REMEMBER OSAMA
STILL HAS
REFUGE THERE. And they do make the Communist women of Kabul wear
Chadri. What
barbarians! Give me napalm in the morning every day (in Viet Nam), and
AS FOR
THE CULTURALLY UNADVANCED IRAQIS, it's "okay" for 750,000 of their
children
to die a slow death! (Get my drift?)
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