Afghanistan: Immoral Country

Here's the latest moral outrage against humanity emanating from Afghanistan.

A young girl, a “child bride,” so-called was beaten and starved by her “in-laws” for refusing their demand that she be a prostitute for them (the money all goes to them, of course). Of course, the very existence and widespread acceptance in Afghanistan of forcibly enslaving children as “wives” to adult males for their sexual use and as household slaves is itself an example of the ongoing moral holocaust that exists in that country

What is the response of the Afghan “government” [sic] to this?

The Afghan Parliament passed, a law, awaiting the signature of “President” Hamid “Super-thief” Karzai, that bars the testimony of family members in trials of such cases. This is a not-very-subtle way of making such cases impossible to pursue. (They're virtually impossible to pursue anyway in Afghanistan's “legal system.”)

I'm not going to waste time denouncing this, or explaining why it's horrible. That's all self-evident, and if it isn't, that's because of others' stunted moral state and intellectual idiocy. The deep awfulness is that the people in power in that country- backed by the U.S. and its European lackeys- would move to protect such criminals and make the victims helpless, powerless, and guarantee future child victims.

Remember the girl who had her nose and ears chopped off because she wasn't sufficiently submissive to her new “family”?

Afghanistan is a place where the officer running the military hospital for the maimed and wounded Afghan soldiers that the kleptocracy expects to fight the Taliban, steals all the medicines and sells them. And NOTHING HAPPENS about that.

This is a country where the “President's” brother and his cronies loot the main bank, and the ensuing “investigation” (forced on the Karzai regime by his Western enablers) is controlled by the thieves and their protectors.

I could go on, but why bother?

Human rights, children's rights, good government, rejection of corruption, loyalty and honor, law and order, dedication to duty, caring for one's fallen soldiers in a battle against terrorists- these are prerequisites for any functional society that is worth living in.

Justice, protection of the vulnerable, and so on: These are NOT “Western values.” They are HUMAN values. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The “West” (the old imperialist powers of Europe and the current global hyperpower, the U.S., and various lackey “white” nations like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) did not invent the human race, and thus did not invent humanity or human moral values. Nor does “the West” lack a long, exsanguinous, and horrific record of “human rights violations” and mass slaughters (wars and genocides). So that has NOTHING to do with “Western cultural imperialism,” the dodge used by Third World criminals and their ideological fellow travelers among Western “progressives” and left-wing hard core ideologues.

I believe that the human race should become the dominant species on this planet. Indeed, until true humans, with a respect and sensitivity for other species, deriving in part from the understanding that we are part of this miraculous web of life with all its wondrous forms, and not something separate from it (as barbaric religions have it), become dominant, the existence of the other species (regarded as “inferior” by “mankind”) will continue to be threatened and wiped out.

As part of the quest for human dominance, human values need to triumph over primitive anti-human values such as those “traditional” Afghan ones. Note: “traditional” does NOT equal “good,” per se. All things must be judged on their merits, not on their seniority or longevity. Slavery, sexism, racism, have long pedigrees and thus claims to being “traditional.” Their survival does not prove their meritoriousness. No more than the survival of diseases proves that disease is a good thing. Barbaric practices of barbaric societies need not be respected in the name of “tolerance” or “cultural diversity.” Cultural diversity is fine- music, art, culture, and so on. However, oppressive social practices should not be permitted to shelter under the rubric of “culture.”