I've been praying hard for them. I keep putting myself in their shoes and trying to imagine the fear and betrayal they feel right now... I wish I could go save them all.
I was in Walsingham yesterday and sat on the grass praying the rosary. When we were drawing up our prayer intentions i suggested the people of Afghanistan; primarily the women and little girls. It's unspeakable what they will have to endure now. God watch over them.
I was just reading one Afghan college girl's devastating words... As we know, the U.S. has been in Afghanistan for 20 years, encouraging the girls to be educated, among many other ways of westernizing and liberating their society... Well, this girl, who is 2 months away from graduating, tells us she feels betrayed that an entire generation of young people grew up in this promising, more free society. This was what they knew, and they were going to go on to build up their country...and now all of it is being ripped from them as they are plunged into fear, uncertainty and regression. I can't even imagine, being thrown under Taliban rule. These girls will now be punished for getting the education the U.S. encouraged them to get. I wonder, though, from a spiritual viewpoint... What did the U.S. do for them spiritually? Was this education we brought them full of Godless, liberal agendas? If we had spent 20 years bringing the Christian faith and building a civilization of love and truth there, would this be happening?
Would that be Shkula Zadran? Probably nothing. If so, they'd eventually have fallen in a different way, as we currently are.
I virtually attended some online masses at Walsingham during some past lockdowns, what an amazing and holy place. Your right, God help those poor people I pray for them all as well.
Let's also please keep the women and girls of this country (USA) in prayer as Open Borders continues. Twice this week I've (50 miles from the border) had encounters with men not locals, who were instantly intrigued with my being "exotic" to them. One apparently couldn't resist getting yet another look at me, despite his being seated a mere four paces from where my husband sat. Another, just this evening, followed me down a cosmetics aisle.
It is also true that the Taliban adamantly oppose abortion. They totally oppose sexual perversion and moral depravity of all kind and punish it. They strongly support the family and proper morality in dress and behaviour for women and men. What on the other hand do and did the USA and the other hand stand for. They strongly support the, 'Right', of people to be sexual perverts and actively spread their propaganda. They push and aggressive policy of Abortion and artificial contraception as a means of population control throughout the world. Far from supporting Religious Practice they are increasingly Persecuting believers, by for instance closing down the World's Churches. Through their films and media the West promote a sexual morality that would shame the Beasts of the Fields. Depravity of every kind. How then can the West expect God's Blessing and Help in any of their Wars? God does not Bless , nor does He support pure Evil.
Sharia Law could not be enforced in a country like Afghanistan , or any other country unless the vast majority of it's women themselves supported it. It is another country and another religious culture, we must not judge them by our own Pagan, Post Christian , corrupt, depraved totally Godless, Western Standards. Isaiah 31:2 And yet he is wise and brings disaster; he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.
Women are regularly raped and beaten in their culture. If they're so strongly for sexual morality, why do they rape their women and girls?
Because supposedly the very same men who rape these girls are the ones who want the girls to be submissive and pure. It tells you what is the driving force behind their rules for these women, which is certainly not to lovingly protect them and save their souls. If the second they see a girl not properly covering herself, they punish her with rape, are they really wanting her to be covered because they value purity and modesty? What is in these men's hearts?
As well, there is a rather huge issue with pederasty with young boys there according to every single veteran I have known who has served there. No culture is blameless obviously but the sheer brutality of the treatment of women, children and young men in these places is renown.
The "dancing boys." And that men can have more than one wife (adultery to us). And that depicting human forms is "idolatry" and therefore banned (to be destroyed). There goes our cherished statues, paintings, and other works of religious art.
I honestly don't see any difference between the post Christian West and those living under Sharia Law. The ongoing Tribulation is a Global Phenomenon. The only difference is that in the West , were once we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, we are now Apostate and rejected Him. I don't think as past of an Apostate Pagan Culture we can really afford to look down to much on anyone. As far a Child Molestation is concerned, well as Catholics we have our own Church issues to be concerned with, do we not?
