The face of liberal Islam?
This
article from
Time is about a wealthy Pakistani girl from a westernized family. She and her family have quite a bit of rage against America for killing Afghans. Interesting. Do they have this sort of rage against their own government for propping up the Taliban which perpetrated
massacres against the Hazaras? Rage can be so selective-the key is not the killing, unfortunately the deaths of others simply become a way to hammer home your own resentments. When their deaths don't serve your particular point, you ignore them, out of sight, out of mind [1]. Here is a sad excerpt:
As the students talk, it becomes clear that nearly everyone in the group has a relative or friend who crossed into Afghanistan to help the Taliban fight the Americans. Their accounts shatter the impression, widely held in the U.S., that it was only ill-educated fanatics who propped up the regime. Though many Taliban fighters were like that, among the recruits were also droves of Pakistanis who knew America firsthand, wore American jeans, listened to American rap music and had American friends—but nonetheless saw Afghanistan as Islam's battleground against the dark forces. One student says she knows an M.I.T. graduate who signed up with the Taliban. "Last I heard, he was in the trenches around Mazar-i-Sharif," the student says. "That was many months back. His family is worried sick."
[1] This is similar to black rage at white cops killing blacks, but the general apathy and acceptance of black on black crime.