Hi

I also wanted to contrast my experience in a small town USA to that of cousins in Saudi Arabia. You know, I talk to my cousins who work in Saudi Arabia. I have never been there but they tell me that they are treated very bad by Saudis? Are they treated second class citizen? No, worse than that.

Edited by afghani - 14 November 2009 at 8:29pm

Salams afghani,
Yes you are right,AbuMubarak and many others take advantage of the great freedom of the US and then criticise. It is a terminal case of biting the hand that feeds you. I have NEVER understand muslims that do that.
It happens other places too, not just the US.

I am really pleased that you are doing well in the US and that people (non-muslims) are friendly. So much depends on the people...and it seems you are giving Islam a good name by being at peace with your neighbours.

I am also very pleased to hear you are a patriotic Afghani. We should all be proud of the place we were born. I am too.

I know the Saudi's treat foreigners bad. THey exploit others. But it is a common trait in human beings. Tho I believe Saudi is far worse than most places.

I am very open minded on the whole. We should be. That way we can understand better and try to make the world a better place. Being rigid with ideas causes confrontations and gets us all no-where. So am I very happy to listen to you brother and want to hear more.

Thanks for answering the questions I posed. The US tell us their purpose in Afghanistan is to reduce the number of taliban to protect the future of the world tho other places see actrocities too from splinter groups of Islam. It is a worry for the majority.

OK I am muslim, but would not like to see this country (UK) under sharia law. I am told I am a bad muslim. I have my reasons for saying what I do, and I know that many do not agree with me. But to be honest I do not care about that.

Just as the US citizens have welcomed you the same applies in the UK to immigrants. I have debated many issues here, so will not repeat myself. BUt a lot of stuff here gets repeated and we get no-where, like I said.

I am keeping this short because this brother is about you and how you feel. But I also hope that others have a say here too and at least try to understand the Afghan situation from your perspective.

Peace and have a good day

Martha, it looks like you are confusing Taliban with Al-Qaida. At least in Afghanistan they are totally different beasts. See, in Afghanistan al-qaida is very simmilar to Muslim Brotherhood organization(Ikhwan Shiateen=IkSh). IkSh has never gotton along with Taliban, except they tolerate each other now since the US is here. IkSh getting along with Taliban is like, white racist getting along with black racist because of a common enemy such as US government.

How can I continue discussion with anyone. I posted a post 14 hours ago and moderator has still not approved it yet.

Steppenomad! You said that you know many Afghanis who hate Taliban (I agree with you, and you are absolutely right). Did you ask those Afghanis as to who should beat Taliban.  Right now the Afghan Government is not in a position to beat Taliban. Do you have any suggestion as to who should beat Taliban?

Foreign troops are not gaining anything by being in Afghanistan. We have no oil, no money. They are not occupying us. They are helping us. We have our own Afghan laws and a  government (but corrupt one), so it is not like they are colonizing us.

Edited by afghani - 15 November 2009 at 9:49pm