Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Afghan Lawmakers Chant "Death to the enemies of islam"

Around 200 Afghan lawmakers protested outside the Afghan parliament against Geert Wilder's soon to be released movie, Fitna. They shouted "death to the enemies of islam" and demanded that the UN and the OIC react to these "kinds of activities".

Funny I never heard them protest against how the taliban or al Qaida make a bad name for islam. Apparently a yet to be seen film is worse than a 13 year child chopping off heads, jihadists blowing themselves up all in the name of islam.

Is this what we're fighting for in Afghanistan?

KABUL, Afghanistan — More than 200 lawmakers shouted "Death to the enemies of Islam" during an angry demonstration outside the Afghan parliament protesting the reprinting of a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad in Denmark and an upcoming Dutch film criticizing the Quran.

The lawmakers from the upper and lower houses of parliament chanted and pounded their fists in the air, urging the Danish and Dutch governments to prevent blasphemy against Islam.

"We want the world community, the U.N. and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to react against these kinds of activities, and not allow any countries to cause such confrontations and dangerous challenges among Muslim communities," lawmaker Mohammad Saleh Suljoqi read from a statement.
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The Afghan lawmakers were also angered by an upcoming short film by a Dutch lawmaker that reportedly portrays the Quran as a "fascist book."

They demanded that the Afghan Foreign Ministry summon envoys from Denmark and the Netherlands to discuss the matter. They also urged the Danish and Dutch governments to prevent such acts in their countries.

On Monday, Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta told reporters during a visit to Denmark that he respected differences in cultures, but suggested Danish newspapers abused freedom of expression when they reprinted the cartoons three weeks ago.

Spanta said freedom of speech should be used to promote "equality and peace between nations" and to exchange information.

"Freedom of speech must not be used to make a billion Muslims cry," he said.

Afghanistan is a Muslim nation where criticism of Muhammad and the Quran is a serious crime that carries the death sentence.
Why did we let them add the shariah provision into their constitution?

4 comments:

#1 infidel said...

and not allow any countries to cause such confrontations and dangerous challenges among Muslim communities,"

what? dangerous challenges?
unbelievable!
what babies!!!!

Anonymous said...

Spanta said freedom of speech should be used to promote "equality and peace between nations" and to exchange information.

-- Some smeghead dictating to the rest of us what we should be allowed to say, doesn't sound much like FREEDOM of speech to me.

SlantRight 2.0 said...

Democracy added to a Muslim dominated land will inevitably lead to these kind of irrational out bursts do to the nature of Islam.

Regardless of moderate or radical, the Quran is a document that preaches supremacism and intolerance of non-Muslim. A place like Afghanistan where Islam dominates and there is no concept of freedom of religion, democracy will allow the soot of culture to float to the top.

The reality of fighting in Afghanistan was to take down the Taliban and al Qaeda responsible for 9/11. The next reality is to develop some kind of modicum of an Islam nation that we can work with against openly hostile radical transnational terrorists and radical Islamic rogue nations.

kyros said...

What we should've done in Afghanistan after the fall of the taliban was the same thing we did in Japan after WWII.

Recent examples have shown that not much has changed in Afghanistan, apostasy is still punishable by death, so is blasphemy and Afghan LAWMAKERS call for the death of the enemies of islam.

When we went into Afghanistan it was not only to get rid of the taliban, but to ensure that a future Afghanistan would not be hostile to the West. Or least that should've been the plan