Re: Pakistan Protests EU Treatment of Pro-Taleban Legislator
As far as I know and aside from the media hype, Taliban are a group of fundamentalist Muslim's :) The extremists (as in any group) are the one's causing problems.
This man was an elected representative of a people.
Dave Duke was a representative and a govenor in Louisiana in America who is an outspoken white extremist. He was still treated with respect as an elected politician and representative of the people who voted for him even though some of them had to be Jewish or African-American. He is one of the more visible racist's we have happily tooling along in America with no outcry because he has the right to have the views he has and the right to speak about them, just not the right to impose them on anyone.
Regardless of this man's affiliation with the Taliban, he did nothing to warrant the treatment he got.
Mind you, I don't particularly like the Talibans stance on a lot of things (to be mild), but I also don't believe in abusing people who have done nothing to deserve it other than having a different point of view.