It's been a week since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. While most of the world is uniting to fight terrorism, the leaders of Afghanistan are urging their countrymen to prepare for jihad or a Holy War against the United States (according to an article on NPR this morning). Apparently the Taliban feel that the US is trying to eliminate Islam. So the institution that restricts the freedoms of women and arrests humanitarian aide workers and destroys centuries old emblems of other religions and commits countless other human rights violations fear religious persecution from a country which was founded on the premise of religious freedom! Have they not hear of our Constitution? The Bill of Rights?
Posted by jfer at September 18, 2001 9:14 AM