3 October 2001
editorial
A most ironic but also sad drama is currently unfolding in Afghanistan.
The Taleban movement, which rules most part of the country and generally scoffs at the whole world, especially the West, could suffer military attacks soon, but at the same time there is an international coalition through the UN putting together a package of massive food aid for the country.
If Taleban politics is to be taken serious, then they are the only group of people who know God and are doing his bidding.
They are so sure about this that they are ready to defy the world in all but the only things they believe to be the ways dictated by God himself. They will go out of their way to even destroy any relic of the heritage of mankind they find "offensive" even if the entire world prostrates to beg them not to.
Television is so offensive that it's been outlawed and any persons caught engaging in the "vice" of television would most certainly pay with their lives.
But for us at The Accra Mail, nothing is more obnoxious than the way they treat women. It is an outlook that is as Jurassic as it is offensive to human rights. There is no way we can justify any movement, religious or secular, that puts down women as nothing more than slaves for men in society. For that alone, we could argue that the Taleban should be left to stew in their own mess, but such an argument would be no different from the Taleban's own misguided excesses.
We therefore support the United Nation's current exercise of delivering massive food aid to that troubled country. For the sake of the children and women so despised by the Taleban, let more food flow into Afghanistan. The world should not sit by and allow a whole population starve to death.
Whatever we can contribute, even from HIPC Ghana, let's do it. Let's send them "Golden Tree" chocolates and prove that we are each his brother's keeper on this earth - the earth created by that one indivisible God.
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