Remember this short video of the Ambassador to Canada from Afghanistan?
I really have a hard time supporting the mission there under those circumstances.
The story below found on Gates of Vienna
From Asia News:
Appeal for Afghan Christians, sentenced to death for their faith
by Santosh Digal
A group of Afghan Christian refugees, who escaped to India to save their lives, describe the hardships they face in their homeland, where Muslim converts to Christianity are put to death. They call on the international community to put pressure on the Afghan government to spare those sentenced to death.
New Delhi (AsiaNews) – VijayKumar Singh, from the India Bible Publishers and the Delhi Bible Fellowship, has launched an appeal to the Christians of India and the world to pray and express their support for Afghan Muslim converts to Christianity who were convicted on conversion charges and sentenced to death on 31 May. Speaking to AsiaNews, Sing said, “We need Christians’ help all over the world to stop the Afghan government from arresting Dari-speaking Afghan Christians and condemning them to death by public execution.”
Afghans consider their country to be 100 per cent Muslim. A local TV station, Noorin TV, recently broadcast a documentary showing photos and videos of secret “Afghan Christian Converts”, which revealed names and showed the faces of alleged Afghan Christian converts.
This was enough to spark riots and demonstrations throughout Afghanistan with protesters demanding strong action to enforce the Afghan constitution, based on Sharia, arrest the culprits, and execute anyone who renege his or her religion in favour of another.
A number of prominent public figures also spoke out on the matter, calling for immediate action. One lawmaker even said that killing a Muslim who converts to Christianity was “not a crime”.
Waheed Omar, the spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, told reporters that the president was “personally” taking an interest in this case, and had ordered his interior minister and the head of the country’s spy agency to carry out a full investigation and “take immediate and serious action to prevent this phenomenon.”
Reports from inside Afghanistan already tell of many arrests in recent days, as well as allegations of torture of those under arrest in an effort to extract forcibly the names of other Afghan Christian converts.
Singh also slams the “perplexing media silence” and demands a strong stance from Christians around the world.
In a letter, Obaid S. Christ, a member of a small group of about 150 Afghan Christian refugees and asylum seekers in India, writes that he and other Afghan Christians “are currently living in exile from their beloved homeland [. . .] forced to flee their country in order to save their life and the lives of their families, due to orders of execution issued against them by the Afghan government for choosing to convert to Christianity.”
Recently, he writes, “The Afghan Home Minister and the Chairman of Afghan Intelligence told the Afghan Parliament that four Afghan Christians and one family had been arrested and that they were under investigation,” and that “13 NGOs are recognized and suspended,” and that the “names of Afghan Christians are listed and the Afghan Intelligence agency wants to arrest them.” He adds, “Our houses are checked by police and intelligence people in Afghanistan, our families and parents (even though they are Muslim) are under investigation and even arrested, and all Afghan believers are missing”.
For this reason, the Afghan Christian community is calling on every Christian “not to be silent or close his or her eyes whilst thousands of fellow believers are persecuted”.
Afghan Christians are asking their fellow Christians to pray for them, “make their voice heard and get the international community to put pressure on the Afghan government to stop killing, persecuting and executing Afghan Christians,” and give us instead “freedom of religion as well as respect and accept us as Afghan Christians.”
Bob Rae, Laurie Hawn and Terry Glavin are all big supporters of extending the mission. I’ve been dispatching about it this past week. But as I’ve recently commented elsewhere, those who support it will never engage in depth about events such as this or the Pashtun affinity for Sharia on that Sunni side of the street.
I have a profound respect for Terry Glavin, and its his support, and only his support, for the mission that makes me hesitate to outright be against it. His logic is complex. He has solid points. I just do not believe ultimately that Canada should be fighting to create another sharia state. What exactly is the mission in Afghanistan? I know for a fact that we have succeeded in building girls schools there which teach secular and valuable things. I have spoken with some of the teachers.
However my feeling, which is worth exactly nothing next to Terry’s actual experience there, is that the moment Canada is gone, all resources we have created and invested will be destroyed or subverted to the purposes of Islam.
You can take the Taliban out of Afghanistan but I am fairly certain that you cannot take the Islam out of it.
I too defer to Terry’s experience and I agree with your assessment. The tragedy is the Politicos just don’t understand Islam an no amount of conventional warfare will route out the asymetric enemy and the faith that implores it fight on. And since the Pakistanis are churning out Sunni Deobandi Talibs from their terror camps, eventually any gains in secularism will be over run.
Next, once the rest of NATO, see the US, extricate themselves from the sandbox, I can see Iran and Pakistan moving in to get a piece of the geological pie or recent news.
I might add, that the Saudis used their geological lottery win to spread the most barbaric primitive horror the world has ever known to the most decent places on earth in an attempt to ruin them. Imagine what even more fundamentalist Afghanistan is gonna do once the cash starts rolling in.
Unless the West gets a clue and acknowledges the declaration of War Islam has made upon all non-Muslims and starts kickin’ some ass, well we all know what happened the last time Chamberlain didn’t think Nazis were all that bad.
If and when in the future all outside forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan I fear a pogrom or a ‘religious’ cleansing will be initiated against all infidels. Of course there will be the usual denials by the weak government and the various Imams or whatever these leaders call themselves, but the 1400+ year old war on the infidels will continue, and individuals will be murdered,beaten,robbed and raped just for the simple fact that they are not practitioners of ‘The Religion Of Peace”. The real winners will be the devious Chinese , they are already buying off the influential Big Shots in the Afghan government to harvest the mineral wealth. All this after hundreds of billions of Dollars, Pounds,Euros, and way too many precious lives gone, wounded, or wasted. It makes me sick and mad as hell!
Hate t’ tell ya, but the pogrom started when Islam slaughtered and enslaved their first infidels. The addition of modern infidel weaponry has only sped up things. As long as killing is facilitated through Islamists living and interacting among Kuffars without them noticing the threat about to explode in their face, this war will continue.