Wolf Pangloss's Fish Taco Stand: Farah: The Taliban and the Drug Trade

"But, reverend father," said Candide, "there is horrible evil in this world."

"What signifies it," said the Dervish, "whether there be evil or good? When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?"

"What, then, must we do?" said Pangloss.

"Hold your tongue," answered the Dervish.

Resources

The Chronological Koran. Read the Koran in the order that it was narrated. Understand the doctrine of abrogation, that states that everything that comes before is rendered meaningless by that which comes later. Then read the last three books and understand the problem.

John Stuart Mill, The Subjugation of Women. A seminal work, from 1869, by one of the greatest moral philosophers of all time, explaining why women should no longer be subjugated. This needs to be part of everyone's education, especially those who are poisoned by gynophobic Moslem dogma.

With the Fjordman Files, Fjordman exposes the cancer that is eating Western Europe alive.

The Euston Manifesto, working toward a revival of the classically liberal, anti-totalitarian wing of the so-called liberal movement.

Manifesto Against Islamic Totalitarianism, from the Jyllands-Posten.

Choose Your Friends Wisely, the impact of those with whom you associate on your own emotional health.

I, a Muslim, from Czech Television

21 December 2007

Farah: The Taliban and the Drug Trade

Douglas Farah writes:

Well, for those who have argued there is no smoking gun linking the Taliban to opium production, the jig is now up. NATO forces discovered 11 tons of processed opium in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, meaning the opium was at the stage where it can be converted to heroin on about a one-to-one ratio. In other words, it was almost 11 tons of heroin.

Farah disposes of the objection that the Taliban punish drug use severely, so they could never stoop to the profitable trade in illegal drugs.

There has been a long-held predisposition in the intelligence community to believe that because Islam severely frowns on the use of drugs (particularly the kind of Islam espoused by the Taliban), the group did not really participate in the drug trade. If they execute people for drug possession, then how could they justify trafficking in the product?

Well, the answer lies in creative theology. There have been several fatwas issued by Taliban theologians since 2001 allowing a Muslim to engage in activities that are harmful to the enemy (that would be us), even if they are actions that a Muslim normally could not take.

1. Problems with Afghan heroin

2. Helmand Means Heroin: Al Qaeda’s Heroin Smuggling Operation from Afghanistan