The regime of the Taliban disgusts me. It is as if I see a putrefying blemish on the face of our beautiful world. A world which holds so many pleasures but in their region contains only darkness.
Have they no notion of good or evil? I think not. Only of religious and irreligious. For no independent moral values could ever condone the manner in which people are treated under this regime, especially their women.
No, the only justification that _can_ be attempted is that of religion. And I think that they have not a religion, but an insanity. What else can take people in a world so filled with beauty and sources of pleasure and compel them to turn it into a hell on Earth?
And what justification is this for their religion? No more than any other religion: Its own internal, non-concrete justifications. People believe because they have been brought up to believe, or never learned how to truly question. A regime so cruel and limiting does not foster the kind of mind that is capable of questioning or truly examining it: The very ways of thinking are shaped such that the incompleteness of its own justifications cannot be grasped.
A religion whose only justification for existence is that it says it is right and should be. But more than that: A religion which sets out to destroy most ruthlessley the only pleasures we can know we can ever know.
What, I wonder, is promised for women in the afterlife? Freedom? Or more of the same?
Anything which might bring down this regime, I cannot but help support.
Rob |