Salim Mansur emigrated from Pakistan many decades ago and became a Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He spoke at my conference on the Jordan Option. He is a great friend of Israel. This video comes highly recommended by Howard Rotberg, who was recently interviewed on his new book The Ideological Path to Submission.
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Salim Mansour may be a great friend of Israel, but he is still a Muslim who believes in the goodness of Islam. Either he is deluded about his own religion, or he is being deliberately dishonest about it.
Concerning the “fall of Kabul”, we need to consider the role of Islam.
This whole enterprise to remold Afghanistan into a modern democracy was doomed from the very start, and it is a pity that no one dares to analyze why this is so.
The Afghan population is very religious Islamic, yet, none of our civilian or military leaders ever studied the Koran and the Sunnah in order to learn what guides, motivates and inspires most of the Afghan population. If they had studied Islam, they would have known that it was impossible to make a liberal democracy out of a Moslem society. There is no way that we infidels can win the hearts and minds of religious Moslems no matter how much money we give them, and no matter how many roads, schools, water filtration plants, government buildings and mosques we build for them. The very religious Moslem Taliban will always be closer to the Afghans’ hearts and minds than we will. The Taliban wants a stricter practice of Islam than much of the rest of the population, but all of them want Islam. Even “our” Afghanistan is, officially, The ISLAMIC Republic of Afghanistan.
It is high time for the leaders of America and our allies to start learning about and discussing Islam, don’t you think? And, it is high time for honest journalists to lead the way.