Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war…
Sure thing. But poverty is caused by Islam, and Islam causes terror and jihad, and that causes poverty for which the kuffar is to blame.
Okay, but now lets talk about winning hearts and minds of the Muslim people, you Islamophobes, you!
KABUL (Reuters) – Most Afghans see not Taliban militants but poverty, unemployment and government corruption as the main causes of war in their country, according to a report by a leading aid group released on Wednesday.
After three decades of war, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. It is also one of the most corrupt. Unemployment stands at 40 percent and more than half the country live below the poverty line.
On top of that, violence is at its highest levels since U.S.-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban in late 2001.
The report, based on a survey of more than 700 ordinary Afghans by British charity Oxfam and several local aid groups, found that 70 percent of people questioned viewed poverty and unemployment as the main drivers of the conflict.
Nearly half of those surveyed said corruption and the ineffectiveness of their government were the main reasons for the continued fighting, while 36 percent said the Taliban insurgency was to blame.
The 704 respondents from around the country were allowed to give multiple answers on reasons for the conflict.
“The people of Afghanistan have suffered 30 years of unrelenting horror. Afghan society has been devastated,” said Grace Ommer, Oxfam Country Director for Afghanistan.
“Repairing this damage can’t be done overnight. It will take a long time for the economic, social and psychological scars to heal … Afghanistan needs more than military solutions,” she said in statement.
AFGHANS FRUSTRATED
There are some 110,000 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan, 68,000 of them American, trying to quell a strengthening Taliban insurgency that has spread to previously peaceful areas.
U.S. President Barack Obama is in the final stages of deciding whether to send up to 40,000 more U.S. troops.
But ordinary Afghans are frustrated at the slow pace of development, endemic corruption and the inability of Afghan and international security forces to stop the violence.
Despite the billions of dollars in aid poured into the country, most Afghans have seen few changes to their lives. Afghanistan relies on aid for around 90 percent of its spending.
“Many individuals felt that though much had been promised to the Afghan people, little had actually been delivered — creating frustration and disillusionment and ultimately undermining stability,” Oxfam said in its report.
“Individuals called for better measures to ensure that economic development and aid reach those who need it the most,” it said.
After the Taliban, the reason most people gave for the continued fighting in their country was foreign interference, 25 percent of respondents saying other countries were to blame.
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In other words give us lotsa of money, stinking Infidels, and get out out of our country.
The question is why all these social and economic indicators are worse in Afghanistan. In fact Oxfam should also look how other islamic countries fare too. They do not fare well either given all the time that passed since they became independent from the stinking infidels who colonized their pure Islamic lands… I think Afghanistan should say farewell to islam instead …They should
I cannot believe that people in the West, are still at it trying to come up with all the left leaning sociological theories of poverty and marginalization and alienation as if they are caused but the lack of fair policies and redistribution of wealth…. let’s look at Saudia Arabia… why is it a hot bed of Wahabism, and severe totalitarian system, because of poverty, a frog would not think so….. It is all about the ideological underpinnings of islamic religion and its grip on the culture…
“Despite the billions of dollars in aid poured into the country, most Afghans have seen few changes to their lives. Afghanistan relies on aid for around 90 percent of its spending.”…..
What is it actually being spent on?
I would say health and education are the keys to leave poverty. It works in all well developed countries.
Coruption of aid might be the root cause.
Are the Afghan leaders wealthy?
Dhimmi asked:
Building roads, mosques, madrassas, (which are regularly blown up) electricity grids, dams, bribing Afghan officials, buying off the Taliban, training and arming the Afghan police and army etc etc…..
Neither health or education ranks high on the priority list of Afghans who want Islam ueber alles….
Small part of it…. but it counts.
Very. Very very wealthy. Rest assured that Karzai himself has siphoned off hundreds of millions from America alone. The other warlords are doing equally well….
BASTARDS.
What is to be done.
Rise up again good people.
Ah the silly “poverty causes crime” idea again.
Meaning wealthy people are always crime-free…. oh yeah.
All Obama’s aids and czars must be real poor folk.
I want this two-headed penny that muslims & their defenders use;
guaranteed to make a motza in the two-up ring.
On the one side of the coin, poverty causes war (jihad), but on the other side, extreme poverty means you cannot afford jihad & can’t even afford to bring your wife to the USA after waging the jihad that you can’t afford to wage …
“A Somali man arrested in the Netherlands and accused of financing Islamic terrorists was not an extremist and was so poor he couldn’t afford to bring his new wife from Somalia to the U.S., according to two of his brothers who live in Minnesota. ”
Good job they live in Minnesota and not Melbourne, unless they hijack a customs vessel and get the Rudd carpet treatment.
Typical muslim answer – not my fault.