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How Biden’s Attempted Shortcut Undermines Peace in Afghanistan
The Biden administration hoped to take a shortcut to peace in Afghanistan with one more big conference. It won’t work.
April 29, 2021
Afghan security police stand guard at a checkpoint in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
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In the fall of 2001, the U.S. influenced the paths of two strongmen in the north of Afghanistan. CIA operatives and U.S. Special Forces landed in the country’s north to help General Abdul Rashid Dostum fight a Taliban commander near Mazar-i-Sharif, Mullah Mohammad Fazl. He eventually surrendered to Dostum and in return, Dostum handed Fazl over to the U.S. forces.
parda‘ first by lowering their gaze.
Lo and behold! An e-store Maktaba-tul-Madina is selling ‘Muslim glasses’ to help with that.
“Tell the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that will make for greater purity for them; Surely Allah is well acquainted with all that they do.” (Quran 24:30).
Lowering the gaze, in Islamic terminology or exercising modesty refers to a number of things. Like, eyeing up someone’s assets, staring at the beauty of non-mahram women, keeping an eye on the wealth of others, and peeping inside the houses of neighbors.
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Occasionalism deals with the concept of causation. Simply put, the relationship between a cause and its effect. It determines the dependency of cause and effect on each other. If my hand moves a chair, is it the strength of my hand causing the movement? Is the firing of the neurons stimulating the muscle activity or is the thought process behind it? Or is it the molecules and atoms rearranging themselves to make this possible?
Occasionalism has far reaching implications in the philosophical and theological world. From Aristotle to Imam Ghazali, Gottfried Leibniz and Rene Descartes – this topic has perplexed the greatest minds. Although they are not subjects of this article- free will, determinism and morality are interconnected with occasionalism. This has been discussed in our article (https://dailytimes.com.pk/613922/free-will-and-determinism-a-philosophical-and-religious-perspective/).