Comments on: The Story of Malalai Joya

By: rippon

rippon — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:53:38 +0000

thabet’s point may be along these lines:
Misrepresentation of Sources

In a post on The Spittoon, after quoting at length an interview with the antiwar Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya, Ahmed concludes:

The deeply moving story of Malalai Joya highlights that the West should not only be fighting in Afghanistan to protect its citizens, but should help in implementing justice for the Afghan people; justice that they so desperately seek and deserve.[2]

This is a peculiar interpretation of an article in which Joya refers to the Western occupation as an ‘enemy’, and tells the interviewer,

If she were president of Afghanistan…she would ask all foreign troops to leave immediately. She says that it is wrong to say Afghanistan will simply collapse into civil war if that happens. “What about the civil war now?…The longer the foreign troops stay in Afghanistan doing what they are doing, the worse the eventual civil war will be for the Afghan people.”
The Afghan public, she adds, are on her side, pointing to a recent opinion poll showing 60 per cent of Afghans want an immediate Nato withdrawal.[3]

By: Houriya

Houriya — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:29:40 +0000

Sorry for the late reply thabet, but can you please elaborate your question? I have read the whole interview, so what is your point?

By: thabet

thabet — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:13:27 +0000

Heh. Did you even read the interview, Houirya?

By: Abu Wanabe Arab

Abu Wanabe Arab — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:40:15 +0000

Actually that’s an insult to the Taliban, even they have a slightly more nuonced understanding of the modern world, whereas HT live in a cartoonish dreamland.

By: Abu Wanabe Arab

Abu Wanabe Arab — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:39:20 +0000

HT are simply Taliban in suits, don’t expect anything more sophisticated.

By: Seerat

Seerat — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:24:27 +0000

Abdul Rehman – if you are still reading any post at all, here is another blog post for you on why Islamists and perverted religious fundamentalist warlords should never gain and hold power! There have been too many experiments with an Islamic state for the past few decades that ended in the abuse of human rights, and in particular the rights of women. Sudan, Nigeria, Iran, Afghanistan, the temporary hold of SWAT by the Taliban and Saudi Arabia. All claim to have been the most Islamic.

Would HT’s dream Khilafah, and the claim to be truely Islamic once having this Khilafah, really be any different? I seriously doubt it.