Originally published on April 20, 2009 at Yo Mama For Obama
I apologize for bringing up yet once again President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.
After viewing the video below, I am still dumbfounded. When asked about the Shariah law that he signed off on last week that allows marital rape, and please, correct me if I am wrong, I believe that I heard Karzai say that this particular law will be revised "BY THE CLERGY" to be in accordance with the Afghan constitution. isn’t that like asking the Nazis to rule on religious freedom? He admitted to actually NOT reading the law before he signed it. Additionally, the journalist Zakaria then questions Karzai about the upsurge in the Taliban. To save my life, I swear that I can not make hay out of his response.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/
It is apparent to me that Karzai doesn’t know his ass from his elbow. No? This is NOT a language problem, but a disconnect of a few key phrases that, when stringed together, make no sense at all. Perhaps too much opium intake? He could not make any of his thoughts coherent, but nevertheless, wasn’t he the picture of sartorial splendor? His words were bullsh**, but he sure did look good.
Heaven help us. This is the country we are depending on to quash Al Qaeda and capture bin Laden? If Karzai is our best bet as an ally in fighting terrorism, we need to run as fast and as far away from Afghanistan as we can.
POSTSCRIPT/APRIL 21, 2009
When Hamid Karzai said he would tell the clergy to "revise" the marital rape law, did I say in my post of last night, "Run Like the Wind", that he is living in a fantasy world? Did I mention that to turn over civil law to an extremist sect will have no good ending? You bet I said those things, and look what is reported today:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30299557/
Yuk! It is beyond belief that this madman first of all signed into law, admittedly WITHOUT READING ITS ARTICLES FIRST, this discriminatory and abusive policy. Then to add insult to injury, he turned over the revision of this law to the very group of extremists that perpetuate this sexual injustice. Such cowardice from Karzai and Zardari (in Pakistan). Bottom line: Karzai is intimidated and scared out of his mind by the Taliban, who killed his father in 1999. Zardari, the husband of the slain Benazir Bhutto, would not have even dreamed of being the President of Pakistan had it not been for his wife. And what of religion? This is yet another example of the using "God" to persecute people, of yellow-bellied men hiding behind religious dogma. It is their inherent weakness that is the real culprit.
Where are you world? It is time to speak out.