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10/22 http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/daily/foc/0,8773,180342,00.html Webfiles: "The Taliban Are Well Liked" A Japanese doctor's up-close observations contradict overseas reports \_ http://rawa.false.net/index.html go to the links at the bottom. but of course you probably think all thiese pictures an firsthand accounts are fabricated by evil leftists. \_ This "doctor's" story does not ring true. Did the http://asiaweek.com editors properly fact-check this? \_ Ok, let's drop a random foreigner in the middle of Texas and have him report back. "Yes, you see, everyone in America rides in a pickup with a gunrack and drinks cheap beer!" Even if this guy's personal experiences are true and properly reported, it doesn't say squat about the population as a whole. But we know from reading the article that he's merely speculating about a few and possibly many things. And don't even get me started on the BBC as a source of news. \_ Don't be so quick. A lot of people in Afghanistan love the stability that the taliban brought. Granted, these are the in small towns and rural areas who would be raided and suffered greatly while factions traded territory. The people who are complaining are, as the Japanese doctor notes, those in the large cities, especially Kabul, where they have committed astonishing atrocities. I doubt what the doctor says about only "upper-class Afghans" complaining. But (probably) the majority of people [living outside of the cities] there don't care about women not being allowed to work because they wouldn't anyway. Also, the doctor is very correct in pointing out the refugee problem. \_ The solution is obvious. We must attack Japan for harboring those who sympathize with terrorists. |
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| www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/daily/foc/0,8773,180342,00.html GMT Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura works with leprosy patients and refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's a job that keeps him in touch with the raw reality of life in that troubled country. And he says that from what he has seen, the Taliban are being wrongly portrayed internationally. The Pushtun people, who make up two-thirds of the Afghan population, can accept strict Muslim codes because they have lived by them all their lives, he says. Women are not deprived of education or jobs, as far as he can see. In fact, half the local doctors at his clinics are women. So why are the people of the capital, Kabul, reportedly hoping to see the Taliban overthrown? Shot by French journalists in Afghanistan, it showed Afghan women speaking critically of the Taliban. Significantly, they are dressed in shiny silk-like costumes, with large rings on their fingers. Nakamura, 55, says the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance are not the freedom fighters some journalists describe them as. Villagers are frightened of them because they are more violent and cruel than the Taliban, he says. They execute innocent people in horrific ways, though not in public as the Taliban do as a warning to others. Nakamura works for Peshawar kai Medical Services, a Japanese aid agency based in Fukuoka City that has been operating in the Peshawar district for 17 years. He first visited the area as an alpinist when he was still a medical school student in Fukuoka. Shocked by the lack of medical care in the area, particularly for leprosy patients, he volunteered to work at a local hospital in l984. He says: "I spent most of my time not in straight medical work but in trying to understand my patients, their lifestyles and values -- what makes them weep or what matters most for them. Nakamura has seen foreigners visiting Afghanistan and returning home to criticize the Muslim culture -- from a Western perspective. The doctor's greatest concern is the fate of millions of starving refugees in and around Afghanistan. Over one million of them are suffering from hunger, he says, while up to 40% are bordering on starvation. Nakamura and his staff stopped focusing exclusively on leprosy in the l980s as they had so many refugees to deal with, many suffering from malaria, diarrhea, infections and fever. Severe draught in recent years created hundreds of thousands of refugees. And now the American bombing and the fear of an invasion has brought more. His aid agency helps to dig wells not only to provide water but also for irrigation for farms, so that the refugees can return to their villages. |
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