If evil exists then it is here

Almost daily there are reports of what the Taliban are doing to their own people. Some describe them as freedom fighters, others as terrorists, but the reality is probably that they are just vile thugs who love to inflict misery on their fellow human beings.

I read with horror the report of one of their victims having been accused to using tobacco. He was taken and his hand chopped off. The hand was then boiled for a while before being sewed back onto his bleeding stump.  This morning we read of Vaccination workers being executed, depriving children of the right not to die from infectious diseases like polio.

The list of atrocities is endless and yet this criminal and vile organisation continues to attract followers and benefactors. Somebody is supplying them with weapons and with supplies and maybe it is time that they too are named and shamed. Perhaps their fellow Muslims could make a start by condemning them without reservation, but to criticise another muslim is not the way of Islam is it?

It is a cold damp and grey day here. The sort of day that makes you want to shut the doors and curl up with a good book. Days such as this one can be depressing, but I look at these reports and am thankful that I do not live in an Islamic state - yet.