Afghanistan and dress code - re NPost Nov 8th

1. Afghanistan - "winnable"? . No way. We can beat the Taliban and we can educate more Afghanis, but we can't change the male population from being Islamists, who oppress women who want to live by Sharia law, into modern democratic moderate Muslims. That change will take at least a generation. In the meantime, the best we can do is lead by example in Canada and reduce the physical threat to our own country.



2. Faiza Iqbal,in her letter to the editor supports the burka on the grounds that you can't judge a book by its cover. But she is wrong. A book with a naked lady on the cover probably deals with sex and a book with a Star of David or a Cross on the cover probably deals with religion. Similarly with dress. A man wearing a $1000 suit is probably a banker or a businessman, one wearing jeans and a sweatshirt is probably a manual labourer, and one wearing a mailman's uniform is probably a mailman. So someone wearing a burka is probably an Islamist who by definition wants to destroy my society. She may also believe that the big smock also protects her virtue, but her virtue is of little concern to most Canadians. The burka is therefore a political and religious statement which is offensive, not because the wearer is Muslim, but because the wearer is probably an Islamist and is publically announcing her distain for the kaffirs.