He never came to Afghanistan from USA, he landed in Pakistan several times and settled for more than 3 months in Taliban heartland Quetta and had some road trips to Afghanistan from Pakistan.
There are two interrelated by separate issues here:
1. what does the world see: what is the verdict in the people's court?
2. what actually happened?
On the first -- what does the world see? -- the case of public opinion is:
Muslims are terrorists -- and in this case Afghans are terrorists (Zazi, Orlando, and then this guy). Logic, moral issues, legal issues do not play a factor this court of public opinion: The only name people saw in the headlines associated with him was
Afghanistan and they will remember he was
Afghan -- this verdict (rightly or wrongly) is: Muslims, Middle Easterners, Afghans and Afghanistan guilty of barbarism. This verdict has already been passed and there is no appeal process.
Now onto the second: could you please use a reference which backs up what you are say -- thus far you've made many claims but have not shared any source of record. But more importantly: even if the facts you state are largely true -- it still does not change much. Counter examples:
1. ISIS militants don't travel to Syria directly -- they land in Turkey and then cross the border. The fact which you state (if true) is
irrelevant
2. Now on a Madrassa: Zazi, Omar Mateen didn't require a madrassa to kill many lives (both were Afghans, whose families had interesting histories)
3. Further if you are saying:
Any Afghan who goes to Quetta is a terrorist -- I guess we're including Karzai right? --
that statement is so wrong on so many levels I would dignify it with any further response.
Afghanistan runs no institution of radicalization.
I mean seriously? seriously??:
1. The
Junbish goons who were recently let loose with guns were trained in Pakistan?
2. The mullahs who encourage children to join the Taliban? The mullah who radicalized
this young boy according to NYTimes was the village mullah was in Zyaratgah(Afghanistan) and not it Quetta or Peshawar
Now the scary part:
1. I have this feeling (which my brain tells me cannot be true) that educated Afghans like you and
@A-Team actually believe all the above assorted phrases actually comprise a legal case -- you're not just doing this as a school yard brawl but whatever you are saying is in good faith ?!!?!?!?
2. I mean seriously:
"Afghanistan runs no institution of radicalization" ??? what the f**k does that even mean. The reason Afghans radicalize is that the culture is has strong elements of
conservatism, primitiveness, superstition, religiosity, sexual oppression -- how do Afghans see themselves: do they really see Zyaratgah as perhaps the sister of Château de Versailles????
3. The closest Zyaratgah came to Château de Versailles was the mini skirts Afghan women wore in the 70s which they mistook for progress.
This is beyond belief.
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