Someone once said that if Pakistan is the anus of the nations of the world, then Afghanistan is the rectum where the cultural faeces are prepared. It’s difficult to argue with such a description when one reads the latest tale of Islamic horror to come out of Afghanistan, which is being relayed by the UK Daily Mail (h/t ROP).
The Mail article about a child ‘bride’ who was tortured and murdered by her much older ‘husband’ in revenge for another child ‘bride’ being murdered by her ‘husband’, is completely sickening and indicative of the sort of society that Islam has created in Afghanistan.
The Mail said:
An Afghan child forced to marry a man at least twice her age in a traditional bridal exchange was tortured to death by her husband in a revenge killing, officials said.
The body of the girl called Hameya, whom authorities estimate was aged between seven and 10, was found on Sunday night, Naqibullah Amini, police spokesman for the northwestern province of Badghis, said.
Hameya’s husband was on the run from police and her father had been detained for questioning, Amini added.
The Mail went on to explain how the forced child marriage was part of a tribal arrangement where child ‘brides’ were exchanged between families and clans. This exchange arrangement allowed poverty stricken families to marry off daughters without having to provide a dowry that the families may not be able to afford. However, when the ‘husband’ of one of the ‘brides’ killed her and in revenge the second ‘husband’ tortured and killed his ‘bride’.
What now exists in Afghanistan is the sort of sick and twisted society that has been created by Islam over the course of nearly a millennia and a half of being controlled by this foul and destructive ideology. Pre-Islamic Afghanistan was dominated by Zoroastrianism, Hinduism and by Buddhism but Islam destroyed these cultures, wiping out any remnant of these belief systems and those who practised them. When Islam came to Afghanistan, some Afghanis voluntarily accepted this ideology but many others revolted against it and by the 11th century CE the country was under the oppressive thumb of Islam.
Afghanistan,and what has happened to it over the centuries since Islam came to this now benighted land, should stand as a warning to others about what happens when Islam is accepted as ‘just another religion’ and treated as equal to other more civilised or peaceful beliefs. We, in societies that have progressed beyond the savagery that characterises Afghanistan, were not suddenly gifted the mindset of not marrying children or not treating women as property, it took centuries of struggle, theological and ethical debate and scientific achievement to get us where we are today. We could lose what we and our ancestors have gained in the space of a century or less, a relative heartbeat when set against the broad sweep of history, and what has been gained and built by blood, sweat and tears may never ever be regained. Islam took the lands that now comprise Afghanistan, imposed Islam on the population and degraded people and nation and turned it in to a backward charnal house. If we do not wish London and Lisbon, Rome, Paris or even New York to become simulacra of the Afghan capital Kabul, then we need to resist Islam and all those who smooth its path in our societies. We must resist by the ballot box, by peaceful protest, by being honest about what Islam really is and by taking the time to tell those we encounter in our daily lives the truth about something that has been woefully misnamed as ‘the religion of peace’.
