RE: Political Post - September 2021
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I don't know anything about Islam and being a Muslim, maybe you could enlighten me...
Are their different shades to the faith? Similar to how there's many hundreds of denominations of Christianity around the world? Each of them interpreting their scripture differently, emphasising certain things, de-emphasising others, and rejecting still other things completely? They all might agree on some things, but not all things regarding their faith
I could be wrong, but couldn't two people be Muslim and believe different things? And practise their faith differently?
Surely Islam is not a monolithic and homogenous belief system the world over? Or even just in Afghanistan?
Wouldn't there be many people that aren't Muslim living in Afghanistan as well?
Again, I don't know. Looking forward to the discussion though
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Focus
You're right, there are different shades to the faith, but that doesn't come in to play here, the Taliban implements 'Sharia Law', this law is derived from the Quran and the Quran is the 'word of God' that all Muslims subscribe to. All the different sects/denominations of Islam have no disagreement over most of these harsh laws, although there are some other laws written by Islamic scholars that are not in the Quran and there are disagreements among Muslims over them but no disagreement over the ones in the Quran.
Now, the fact that you're a Muslim means you accept the Quran as the word of God, why would you be running away when the word of God is about to be implemented? If you have come to the realization that the so called word of God is cruel/evil then why are you still a Muslim?
Also, your observation that there would be some people who aren't Muslims in Afghanistan is actually correct, for sure there are people like that, those are the people that deserve protection, though. If protection can't come then running away is great and should be facilitated.