From Dennis Prager’s website description of his radio show today: “Three American doctors at the CURE hospital in Kabul were murdered by an Afghani policeman who was assigned to protect them. It’s very hard for us to understand the evil behind Islamism.”
It’s not hard for me to understand. Many Afghans, perhaps most Afghans, want to keep on being Afghans and they are not interested in assimilating into Western culture. To defend their own culture, they seek to stop people who try to make Afghans less Afghani. It does not seem that complicated to me.
The pure altruistic motives attributed to CURE International don’t make it any less of a threat to the Afghan way of life. When Westerners go to backward countries and help them, it generally just embitters the recipients of help. American doctors curing Afghans makes many perhaps most Afghans feel lousy about themselves. They’d prefer to see their fellow citizens suffer rather than see them relieved of pain by Americans.
Do Afghans have the right to their own culture? Do Muslims have the right to be Muslim? If so, then we shouldn’t be intervening in their affairs. We shouldn’t send them money or doctors or food or medicines unless it is in our interest to stop the Soviets, etc. If you must intervene, send them your prayers and leave it at that.
Dennis: “There are times when you can only answer evil with good. I would like for their income to double as a result.”
