In a recent CBC interview, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau stated that our Liberal Government would take a “wait and see” approach in deciding whether or not to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
Public Safety Canada considers the group to be a terrorist organization. A young mother of four was apparently killed a few weeks ago in a northern Afghani town by a Taliban contingent because she refused to cook dinner for them. Reports have it that door to door searches are underway in Kabul as Taliban agents seek out all and any with affiliations to the previous Afghan government or its American allies. Those found guilty of such, the consensus seems to be, probably don’t have long to live. Canadians with family members stranded in Afghanistan are afraid they may never see them again. Former CIA analyst Matt Zeller declared on MSNBC that more than 80,000 had declared their desire to leave the country as the possibility of a Taliban takeover became more likely. Indeed loathing for the harsh Sharia fundamentalism of the group has incited chaos at the Kabul airport where thousands have gathered, some pathetically clinging to the landing gear of departing airplanes only to fall to their deaths shortly thereafter, all in a desperate attempt to escape a regime which our Canadian government is reticent to condemn.
But surely you know why! The Taliban are Muslims. They have more melanin than we White people. They are different. If it seems absurd to you that the Left should be more tolerant of “the other” simply because they are “the other,” then you have hit upon the inherent absurdity of the contemporary Left. Imagine the outrage here in the West should a sect of White, Christian Fundamentalists decide to submit an entire nation to its medieval, religious regime! Would Trudeau be amenable to a “wait and see” attitude? Would that sect be seen as anything other than a fanatical, fascistic, terrorist organization?
The stratagem of the Left in defending its demonstrably superficial narrative is its equally superficial insistence that perfectly rational criticism of any sector of “the other” is indistinguishable from “hate speech.” It’s an insult to anyone with a scintilla of common sense. Yet should some heartless bastard decide to bomb a Mosque somewhere here in Canada in the near future, our papers will no doubt explode with articles claiming “conservative” criticisms of the Taliban are somehow responsible.
[Oops! Perhaps due to public outrage, Trudeau has just [Tues., Aug. 17] distanced himself from Garneau’s statement, saying his government has no intention of legitimizing the Taliban.]