personally, i love open honest dialogue-
its why im here
i dislike biased journalism
journalists have some repsonsibility to edify us- not abuse their forum to express their own biases in such broad terms-

its ridiculous in any sense to complain that "all afhgnais hate self criticism"

all PEOPLE do-
and i particularly dislike when writers use anothers tragedy opportunistically to promote thier own slant-

its just distasteful

im not afhgani- im american

but fair is fair

I suppose that you've now exposed yourself to the anger of those who would see this as an attack against the Middle-Eastern ideal of the way life should be led. I thank you for taking a risk in a community that sometimes dosen't deal very well with open, honest conversation concerning these topics.
I wish for you the best.

There is wrong and right, good and bad , moral and immoral and it is the human nature that likes righousness goodness and what is moral so whichever society it is we must not expose the filth rather to cover it. How much honest and truth seeker hypocraties like robison are, that we know all.

mr robison- why would you assume there is any reconciliation between islam and child abuse?
there isnt.

muslims are exhorted to want for their neighbors what they love for themselves.

actually, i find it incredible that the film makers were so unaware tht there may be danger to the child actor-

that seems to be the more real and urgent abuse-
that child and his family-

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mr robison- why would you assume there is any reconciliation between islam and child abuse?
there isnt.

muslims are exhorted to want for their neighbors what they love for themselves.

How do the people of the Northern Tribal parts of Afghanistan reconcile the practice of this abominable use of children with the Holy Quran?
It seems to me another of the hypocritical uses of an outdated religion, that has no bearing on the modern world.
I, am not critical, by any means of those who by dent of reason and logic, follow the path of Islam or any religion, but to those who pick and choose the parts of the faith that they follow, there must be some logical reason for them to do this.
In my journey through life, I have tried the path of many faiths and have looked into many others. In all I have found one common thread, that is to think of the other person as we do of ourselves. No matter what faith, no matter what path, we need to think highly of others, to give of ourselves as we would give to G-d.
In the West, we do not have a monopoly on the abuse of women and children, poor and disabled, and yet to hear of the accepted abuse of women and children, in a faith such as that of Islam, is hard to swallow. Not unheard of, but still tough to fathom.
For all mankind, we need a revival not of "faith," but one of seeing our neighbor, as worthy of our love and help. Without regard to political or religious belief, national origin or place these men, women and children currently live in. We, mankind, must get past the boundaries of our own naive and chauvinistic ways of thinking and again, see the good in all, or we are doomed to kill not only the other but our planet as well.

Film producers are in business to make money. I must be missing the big picture on this topic, Hollywood cameras roll in a country who's war torn present is the producer of recent record heroin exports. Most don't have electricity, let alone media. It seems the producers may be racist, portraying reality as child rape in an Arab country.

The actors are no longer in demand as stars, they are on the run having been raped by Hollywood.

I have not seen the movie, only read the reviews...

I think it was very important to have the rape scene in the movie, since it's an important part of the story's plot, and because it sheds light on an important issue taking place in Afghanistan.

If the movie producers had deleted this scene, the story's essence would have been light and not as powerful as the author of the book meant it to be.

There is a grave message behind this scene. Khaled Hosseini wanted us to know that the divisions already existed in Afghanistan, but were not as visible as they had become under the Taliban regime.

http://baghdadtreasure.blogspot.com/

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very few people are running n eagerness to be self critical-
i dont think its necessarily an afhgani trait-

are you kidding me with this?

are we supposed to believe that the east has some sort of monopoly on abuses of young boys/girls as sexual objects?

what kind of xenophobic opportunism is this?