Arab Muslim Troops Assisting Against Taliban In Afghanistan

Posted on March 30, 2008
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It looks like the Emiratis have been helping the coalition in Afghanistan for the past 5 years now. Good stuff.

I’m glad the story is getting coverage over at Red State. Not surprisingly, some Muslims are fuming over what they view as treasonous.

Sure, let’s bring back the wonderful Taliban please. They’re so much better than the evil coalition.

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7 Responses to “Arab Muslim Troops Assisting Against Taliban In Afghanistan”

  1. thadthor on March 30th, 2008 10:30 pm

    The UAE is a model for the region. Due to their massive investment of oil revenues into infrastructure and civil projects, the UAE may be the only country in the region that will prosper when the oil runs out and the world changes to alternative fuel sources. It also appears that the Emirates have become the second developed country in the region after Israel.

  2. Andrew Brehm on March 30th, 2008 11:09 pm

    Turns out the UAE and Jordan are better allies than Germany and France.

    (Even Obama said that Germany and France must do more in Afghanistan!)

    UAE… UAE… are they not the guys who wanted to buy a (Miami?) port and run it? George Bush was in favour but the Democrats voted against it because they feared Arab control of a major US harbour?

    Did they sell the harbour to a French company instead?

    The UAE are all right.

  3. Craig on March 31st, 2008 12:02 am

    Well, lets not read too much into UAE, eh?

    The 2005 statistics show that the population of UAE has gone up many folds. This has caused a significant demographic shift. The US State Department calculates the total population as 4.32 million. 85% of population is made up of immigrants while natives count for remaining 15%. Indians form the single largest expatriate ethnic group. Nearly all citizens are Muslims, approximately 85 percent of whom are Sunni and the remaining 15 percent are Shi’a

    19 % of the population is Emirati, and 23 % is other Arabs and Iranians [3].

    Local observers estimate that approximately 55 percent of the foreign population is Muslim, 25 percent is Hindu, 10 percent is Christian, 5 percent is Buddhist, and 5 percent (most of whom reside in Dubai and Abu Dhabi) belongs to other religions, including Parsi, Baha’i, and Sikh.[4] In late 2001, the Ministry of Planning inquired about religious affiliation in its first federal census. According to a Ministry report compiled in 2003 using data collected during the census, 76 percent of the total population is Muslim, 9 percent is Christian, and 15 percent is “other.”

    As of 2005, only 15% of the population of UAE were citizens. UAE seems like an experimental “planned community” like we have many of here in the US, only taken one step further and applied to a whole country. Nothing at all wrong with that, but what works under those circumstances can’t necessarily be applied anywhere else!

  4. Craig on March 31st, 2008 12:03 am

    Forgot the link I quoted from:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates

  5. Danial on March 31st, 2008 3:09 am

    UAE wasn’t the first Muslim country to assist the effort in Afghanistan.

    Turkey was.

  6. thadthor on March 31st, 2008 3:46 am

    I disagree with you Danial. Turkey isn’t a Muslim country. It is just a country with a very large majority of Muslims. The government is very strongly secular and Sharia is banned.

  7. Danial on March 31st, 2008 5:27 am

    thadthor, I believe you have your concepts confused.

    A Muslim country can be secular or Islamic. It just means that there is a Muslim-majority, hence why it is a Muslim country. Turkey is an example of a Muslim country because it is predominantly Muslim.

    An Islamic country, on the other hand, is where Islamic law is the norm.

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