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The British government advises me against any travel to Afghanistan because Afghans might try to kill me. This is a country that fought a civil war in the pursu
by kypro 1y ago
The British government advises me against any travel to Afghanistan because Afghans might try to kill me. This is a country that fought a civil war in the pursuit of suppressing women's rights after all.
> Also likely that the immigrants’ culture would differ from that of their native country.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/16/donald-trump/trump-mostly-correct-about-sharia-law-support-afgh/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/16/donald-tru...
I hope you're right and we're getting that 1% of moderate Afghans who just believe that homosexuality is wrong, not that it should be punishable by death.
Could you do me a favour and ask yourself if you would take your wife and children on holiday to Afghanistan? Is the answer yes or no? If it's no, please explain why I should therefore be okay with my government allow undocumented Afghan men live in the hotel by my family? At a minimum should we not be vetting these people?
- ForHackernews 1y agoMany of them are people who served alongside British forces, risking their lives to try and prevent the Taliban from turning Afghanistan back into a fundamentalist hellhole. They failed, the US failed, the UK failed, but I submit that most Afghan refugees have much more up-close-and-personal reasons to hate and fear Islamic fundamentalism than you do.