Why nation-building in Afghanistan only wound up failing

Here's an excerpt from Jesse Petrilla's recent book, "If It Takes a Thousand Years: From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them", which explains why, so long as Islam rules countries like Afghanistan, nation-building there won't be possible:

I was serving in the U.S. Army as a Liaison Officer to the Afghan secret police, and facilitated the interrogations of over 400 captured Taliban and Al-Qa’eda members while there. A Taliban leader once told me “You have me in a cage, my fight is over for now, but my children will fight you, and if they don’t win, their children will fight you. If It Takes a Thousand Years, we will win.” Although it didn’t take the Taliban a thousand years to win the battle of Afghanistan, it demonstrates the drive that our jihadist enemies have. They fight generational wars against the West as a whole.

When analyzing our Islamic extremist enemies, it is important for the American people to understand the tribal mindset that so many of our enemies come from. Islam developed from tribal cultures, and many tribal cultures over the past 1,400 years developed under Islam. The Islamic world itself is divided into what I would describe as tribes; you have the Sunni tribe, the Shia tribe, and within that are thousands of other tribes, one of the most recent being the “Palestinian” tribe which has become somewhat of a self-appointed identity by various lost members of other tribes. But in Afghanistan, tribalism is at a level that is virtually unparalleled in the world.

It is human nature to coalesce together into groups, but when you add Islam to the mix, it fuels different dynamics that are completely alien to Westerners. The tribal mindset is so vastly different than our own that it often makes it impossible to reason with them, and they will not respond logically or rationally as you might assume an American or other Westerner would. To Westerners, the tribal mindset may contain many elements that are quite shocking and deeply disturbing.

Part of our training upon arrival in Afghanistan included multiple briefings on Islamic and Afghan culture, since we would be working with locals on a daily basis. In one such briefing, the Afghan-American man leading the discussion began by stating; “You must understand that everything about your way of life in America, is completely different in this planet.” He quickly corrected himself to say “in this country,” but his misspeaking was not too far from the truth. From the way people say hello to the way they go to the bathroom, everything is different, and it is like another world to a Westerner.

In Pashtun tribal law, the largest tribe in Afghanistan comprising almost half the nation, there is something known as khun, or blood money. It can be paid to make amends for various transgressions such as murder, property damage, theft, kidnapping, etcetera. In addition to khun, women can be given to become sex slaves as well as female babies to eventually turn into sex slaves. Women and female babies count as two-thirds of the khun.

Just as in every other part of the Islamic world, Pashtun women have far less status than men. To divorce a woman, the man only needs to declare “I divorce thee” three times publicly. Many Pashtuns also believe that women have something called the “evil eye,” that they have special powers and the ability to cause bad things to happen.

In Pashtun tribal law, if a woman is kidnapped by force, and coerced to consent to marry her kidnapper, but she does not get her father’s permission, the father has the right to kill her. Any inclination of a woman having dishonored the family is rapidly met by her murder. In one of the detainee interrogations, I was truly shocked and saddened when the detainee was describing his family, and nonchalantly said “I have eight children, I had nine but one of my daughters dishonored the family and so I killed her,” a story I unfortunately would hear similar versions of on more than one occasion from multiple detainees.

With women and children relegated to 2nd-class status via Islamic sharia, it's no wonder things are as horrific there as they still are. That the government of Dubya did nothing to prevent many of these repulsive cases behind the scenes is another reason Afghanistan's "liberation" was doomed to failure. We must hope Donald Trump's incoming government will do whatever possible in the meantime to reverse what Biden's bunch enabled upon retreat. But it's doubtless going to be a very long, grueling trip to put an end to the suffering there.

Coming from an Islamic immigrant, this comes off as a most peculiar complaint/lamentation

Last year, Abigail Shrier wrote about American families sending their children to foreign language immersion courses, because they're so disillusioned with whatever passes for "American culture" these days, and find it so bad an influence, they'd rather take measures they believe could shield their children from said influences, which are conveyed foremost via the English language. It's an interesting subject, but along the way, she highlights what a psychology expert told about a conference he gave in a certain location in Michigan:

At the end of a talk Dr. Sax gave at an Islamic center in Detroit years ago, a Syrian-born father approached him. The man and his wife had come to the United States twenty years earlier and had four children. “They normally speak Arabic at home, but they told me that when their teenage son wants to be defiant and disrespectful, he switches to English,” Dr. Sax said. “And Dad told me that his son’s whole body language changes. His eyes narrow, he gets a smirk on his face.”

Now this is most peculiar - and decidedly rich - coming from an apparent follower of the Religion of Peace, which seeks to impose perversions of its own upon western "infidels". Of course culture in the USA, as told there, has tragically been corrupted, but ironically, depending what's involved, it's not something a religion built upon jihadism, antisemitism, racism and misogyny would truly have an issue with. Especially if the kids continue to adhere to Islam even after becoming defiant of the parents. If modern entertainment products in the USA build on horrific ingredients like normalizing violence and playing it for cheap sensationalism, it'd only be seen as something Islamofascists would consider a perfect extension for their twisted beliefs.

Obviously, there are Muslim parents who have problems with children growing up disrespectful to them for all the wrong reasons, but it's still no excuse for raising them under a horrific ideology that's just as destructive as LGBT ideology's turning out to be in the past decade, and has led to terrible instances of honor murders against daughters over Thoughtcrimes. Indeed, how is that any different from the misogyny that's now resulted in girls mutilating themselves for the sake of transsexual ideology?

So maybe the real query here is why the aforementioned doctor was giving lectures at a Muslim institution. It makes this a very absurd situation where the guy risks glossing over one bad ideology while talking about another. If you think that's weird and naive, it sadly is.

ISLAMOPHOBIA KILLS

When Muslims are involved, child-protection laws get thrown out the window for fear of offending Muslims:


Additional information, including the verdict, HERE. Brief excerpt:

...The prosecution presented wire taps and mobile phone records from the Shafia family in court to support their honor killing allegation. The wiretaps, which capture Shafia spewing vitriol about his dead daughters, calling them treacherous and whores and invoking the devil to defecate on their graves, were a focal point of the trial.

"There can be no betrayal, no treachery, no violation more than this," Shafia said on one recording. "Even if they hoist me up onto the gallows ... nothing is more dear to me than my honor."...

More details HERE.

Arizona: Legal Jihad

In an honor killing case here in America, no less.

From this source, in an article entitled " Muslims Exempt from Death Penalty in U.S.?":

For the first time, the idea that all are not equal before the law, but that some are more equal than others, has been given credence by an American court. Despite the County Attorney’s Office denials, a precedent has been set that Islamic pressure groups are certain to exploit to the hilt.

Read it all.

"Some are more equal than others"? Orwellian, as in Animal Farm. And how did that little utopia turn out?

Of course, the dhimmiwitted will say, "Nothing to see here. Move right along."

(Crossposted from Always On Watch)

IN ITALY, TARGETS OF HONOR MURDERS GET PROPER PROTECTION

As the fate of Rifqa Bary appears on the horizon again, Atlas Shrugs features some news translated from Italian sources that show how, just like in France, authorities there too are making efforts to protect women from Muslim families who fear for their lives. For example, from Mediaset:

“He wants to kill me.” That is what a 15-year-old Moroccan girl says about her father, who frequently beat her, so she left home.

Her father is a Moroccan worker who has lived in Italy for 25 years. He beats her up because she has an Italian boyfriend, and he keeps reminding her that she is Muslim – “Tu sei musulmana” – and she should not have an Italian boyfriend. His beatings, and his attitude, became so worrisome that she fled from the house and is now staying in a “comunita” (a kind of group-home that serves as a refuge for those who flee their family situation).

At the end of the very short item, there is a brief interview by phone with a politician who discusses how how one political party, the Northern League or Lega, wants to have a national law passed that will ban the niqab, for at present the situation depends on the local officials, the mayor, of reach town, to decide for himself how to deal with the niqab problem as he sees fit.

And here's another from Il Giornale:

Amo un italiano, papà mi uccide" Marocchina di 15 anni sotto scorta “

I love an Italian, daddy wants to kill me” Moroccan 15-years-old under protection

(in Italian)

«Her request for help is heartbreaking: «Help me, I do not want to end up like Hina and Sanaa». She said in tears to the Carabinieri of Pavia, just a few hours ago, a Moroccan fifteen-years-old escaped from his home in Voghera. And the soldiers have moved immediately: "Now the student is in a protected location in Lombardy, away from the parents herself accused of having threatened to give her the same end of Sanaa. Besides, its history, for some months now, is similar to that of two girls, had their lives took for the only "guilty" of loving an Italian, and not a Muslim, man. A script already seen.

The young girl knows an Italian, they liked one another, they start to go out together. He has the same age: a clean story. Yet parents do not go at all well. The father, as soon as he discovers it, screams her again, and again, that she must break off this story. Finally, a bit for filial obedience, much more for fear the teenager obeyed. But only briefly. Finally she cannot bear it no more. She takes up to frequent the Italian kid. And unfortunately she is eventually discovered. The mother in fact found a note in his pants, thrown in the basket of dirty laundry for the washing machine. It says: "I cannot forget the past with you." From there, the hell with the family.

The harassment starts. Her father beat her repeatedly and threaten her of death: "I'll give you the same end of the others ..." alluding to the most horrific cases of poor Muslim girls massacred because they were trying to break free from a fundamentalist and dull world. Beatings and threats that the mother have witnessed as well, without blinking, but rather sharing this "method of education”. The girl tries to cling to whatever is around her, had her friends contact the Social Services, as she will explain later to the police too. But everything remains as is. Nobody took her away from that family that now beats and insulted her almost every day. The angry phrase she hear is always the same: «Raki daimen Muslima u-maghribiyya (you are still/forever Muslim and Moroccan). These are your roots, you must not forget, and that is why you cannot attend Italian boys who are not Muslims. Your father feels dishonoured». Then the blows.

The emphasis that the media have given to cases of Hina and Sanaa moves her react. Thanks to what she saw she is conscious of what can be the end. She rebels and saves herself. And the parents lose a daughter. When she decides to run away from home is disoriented, does not know what to do or where to go. But she proved stronger than she has ever suspected. Thinks of one Italian friend of her. Contacts her and goes to her place. She stayed there a night. The next day she took the train with her, destination Pavia. Once they arrived in the [provincial] capital the decision triggers: to get help from whom, certainly will not underestimate their cry of despair.

So she enter the barracks of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, and tells all. She knows that to rebel could win her a life without regrets, where she can freely decide her own fate. And at the sentinel that stops her at the entrance she says, without hesitation: «I want to make a complaint." Allegation that begins with tears, but ends with a half smile. Because at once she is told that she will not return in that house. Finally her terror is listened. Now, of this case, will take care the Juvenile Court».

This is exactly what the US should be taking a page from, and helping women from Muslim families find the proper shelter they seek, not subjecting them to ludicrous legal procedures.

See also this article from Phyllis Chesler that tells more about how Italy's got a movement growing that wants to ban the burqa like in France, and how Egypt, of all places, wants to do the same.

THE THREAT TO RIFQA BARY IN ITS ULTIMATE CONTEXT

Andrew Bostom presents some work by the late Father Michael Hayek, a Lebanese Maronite Christian scholar whose works were widely sought, that provides more insight on the threat Rifqa Bary faces because of her apostasy from Islam.

On a related note, here's some more info on Tissy Said, the mother of Amina and Sarah Said who betrayed her 2 daughters to Yasser Said so he could honor-murder them. I fully agree that the mother should be in prison for being an accomplice to the crime, and not severing ties from that monster who's still at large.

Update: and here's some more on the Bary case: Jihad Watch discusses how the St. Petersburg Times propagandist Michael Kruse is trying to "explain" Islamic apostasy law to us. Kruse really is a most disgraceful man. Kruse, IMO, is actually rather Krude.

Update 2: Atlas Shrugs presents a special photograph of a fatwa document on apostasy.

NOW THAT IS SICK

Of all the filthiest acts the MSM could commit in their demonization of Rifqa Bary, not to mention the "parents" themselves, do you know what they've done now? They've given her diaries to the Orlando Sentinel to publish. Of course, there's the question if anything extra was fabricated in their drive to demonize her.

Is this what real parents do? Is this what any decent person does, to expose someone else's private properties, which is a violation of privacy? This is most truly disgusting, and Rifqa's counsel should sue the paper over this. Come to think of it, they should sue the "parents" as well. This exposes the "parents" as the attention-hungering hatemongers they really are. Such vile characters should be shunned and ostracized by any and all sensible society.

Update: Rusty at the Jawa Report has some extra things to observe on the case, including a certain blogmaster's surprising irresponsibility in how he addressed Rifqa's defenders.

Update 2: Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch have a new video of Rifqa from last May that's also interesting for viewing, as well as the following statement by Bruce Bawer for the Intl. Free Press Society and Free Thinking Films about Europe's multiculturalists:

And in many cases they shamefully close their eyes to honor killings. The murders by parents and siblings, of girls and women who in some cases doing no more than looking at a boy the wrong way, have according to Islamic beliefs, soiled family honor. European authorities are so much a prisoner of multiculturalism that they could actually believe that their obligation in such matters is not to protect innocent children from brutality, but to display sensitivity to cultural difference.

Within Muslim communities, there are only a very few unimaginably bold men and women, who dare to speak out against the traditional sharia based autocracy of the Mullahs and Imams. And when they did so, they were not defended, let alone praised for it by the government, media or by professors,but were rather accused of betraying their people and rocking the boat. Take the writer Whalid Al-Kalbaisi, who came to Norway from Iraq many years ago, and has recounted a conversation he had with the Ethnic Norwegian Director at what Al-Kalbaisi described as an "international cultural center".

This cultural bureaucrat plainly thought of himself as being devoted heart and soul to the welfare of immigrants, but when Al-Kalbaisi raised the question of the freedom of Muslims to criticize or even leave their own religion, the cultural bureaucrat was displeased. "You are a Muslim Whalid", he said, "and you must not lose your identity. " "But do you believe", Whalid asked, "that I will lose my identity if I believe in the freedom of expression?" "Listen" the man replied, "this is something that you decide yourself, but your attitude causes a lot of problems. We want to create a multicultural society and we don't want to dissolve these foreign cultures, your attitude alters all our plans, it creates conflicts between immigrants.

I think that's telling of what Norway for one has in mind for its own country.

SHARIA IN "MODERATE" TURKEY

Hat Tip: Atlas Shrugs

"The Religion of Peace" in "moderate" Turkey!!!

ISLAM=HONOR KILLINGS INCORPORATED

Source: Atlas Shrugs

Click here to witness more victims murdered and maimed in the most barbaric fashion, all carried out in the name of Islam, their prophet, Muhammad & the nefarious legal code he instituted.

Crossposted@ Let's Get It Right

ISLAMIC RAGE BOY

Hat Tip: Tundra Tabloids

Read more about this story from Debbie Schlussel here.