Monday, December 14, 2009

Letter to the Toronto Star - re Siddiqui

Siddiqui stumps no one.

Afghanistan hasn't stumped Harper as Siddiqui suggests. It has stumped the Muslim community. Why, even with the help of the West, haven't Afghanis been able to lift themselves up by the bootstraps to get rid of the Taliban and make decent lives for themselves? What is it about the interpretation of the Koran which has stopped the Afghanis men from achieving freedom and not given Afghani women freedom to benefit themselves and society?

No, it is not Afghanistan that has stumped the West but the question of how a reasonable Muslim person can become an Islamist.

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