result #100768 - IS THIS ANOTHER SIGN OF THE BLOSSOMING OF DEMOCRACY IN AFGHANISTAN?

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political : IS THIS ANOTHER SIGN OF THE BLOSSOMING OF DEMOCRACY IN AFGHANISTAN?

[+] serious ballot by cranky
ACTIVE Aug 20,2006 - Fri May 15, 09

Afghanistan to reconstitute religious police
Karzai government insists new version will educate, not repress

San Francisco Chronicle

(08-19) 04:00 PDT Kabul, Afghanistan -- Nearly five years after the ouster of the fundamentalist Taliban regime, President Hamid Karzai plans to breathe new life into a strict Islamic institution that many Afghans were happy to see die: the Amr Bilmaruf va Nahi az Mankar, or literally, "Do the good, don't do the bad."

Last month, Karzai's Cabinet approved a proposal to re-establish the agency also known as the Department for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue, whose police under the Taliban beat and imprisoned Afghans for violating Shariah law. For many, the revival of religious cops raises painful memories of ruffians zipping around Kabul in Datsun pickups mainly in search of women and girls who refused to wear the head-to-toe burqa, donned high heels, wore nail polish or walked down city streets without a male relative. Men were cited for sporting short beards, drinking alcohol, working during prayer time, playing chess or listening to nonreligious music.

The department was banned after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.

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Is the reestablishment of Islamic religious police in Afghanistan a signal of success in establishing democratic values?

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See, from what I was also reading, is that Afghanis are very angry over the preferential treatment foriegners are recieving, while they feel as though they are being treated as second class citizens in their own country. In a way, in kind of reminds me of life before pre-communist China (and post Communist) China, but mainly, pre-communist China.

by aya on Sun Aug 20, 06 4:59pm [+]

Voted : Yes
Cranky: You are so full of BS!

There has been no indication that the re-establishment of this "Department" will lead to the type pf "religious Policing" that occurred under the Taliban. Under the current Afghan Government, the Department has a completely different mandate and not one person who worked for the department under the Taliban will have any authority in the new department! Stop the misinformation!

by xxxxxxxx on Mon Aug 21, 06 5:03am [+]

^So, I suppose the re-establishment of the SS in Germany wouldn't be any cause for concern as long as the press release said there shouldn't be.

by cranky on Mon Aug 21, 06 8:21am [+]

^Apples and Oranges.

The "Department" to which you reference will not have any of the "religious policing" power which the Taliban gave it.

by xxxxxxxx on Tue Aug 22, 06 8:03am [+]

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