A Soldier's Journal: Day 5

[emkhan]

EMKHAN ..shayad hagha yaw Pakhtun dai aw zemung sara maskharah kawi ....w wayal "darega" pa angrezi ki mana lari "Stop" . LOL der maqboul dai kana?

zaka kho darta waym che der serious ye ma akhley...
daa hassey kadu dai

[emkhan]

and i know very well how American write... Their writing style is different.

[ScimitarXEdge]

kadu ..laka pumpkin? hahaha ...

[Gulalai]

lol @ kadu

welcome MDresden, may allah guide you on the right path, Ameen.

[MDresden]

Now you judge my writing style? Hah...I'm done for the night...you are too judgemental. I would not like to be in your family!

The nan is too dark! The nan is too light! Oobo no good! Oobo good!

[MDresden]

La Ela Elaha...

[Alchemist]

[Please note: this is from my personal journal while I'm on guard duty...started today.]

The Afghans are very friendly people. I've been thinking lately how I grew up in foster care and never really had any friends and religion. I mean I had friends, but was never so "open" as the Afghans are with each other. They give each other a handshake, a greeting and then place their hands over their hearts. In America, we either have to greet/salute someone with rank or usually the civilians walk right past each other. I wonder personally if it's our jobs or culture that causes us to disregard each other so much. It maybe that the internet has become our social outlet. If that's the case you can't determine motivation beyond a pre-written set of "hello and goodbyes." I like these people more and more as I continue on my guard shift each day. When I get out of service I really don't want to take one of the people's jobs (their source of income and livelihood) but I really feel I want to move to Afghanistan. A funny side note, we have a great (1 of 2) Afghan guards and I've been able to "break" the language barrier and learn Pashto/Pakhto. This may sound weird, but I like to talk their language. I've also learned a bit of Islam and I believe this may be the religion for me. As stated earlier, I haven't really "known" any religion except for studying christianity for a couple of years (being forced to) while in foster care. Christians think they "have the answer" because of a man who died on a cross and cried out to his God, "God, why have you forsaken me?" Those were words of a man. How can the part (if not all of him) be forsaken or removed from God? Maybe he thought he had enough persecution in his life. I find it very hard to believe a god would forsake part of himself, if indeed he was or was a part of God. Not a ranting or rambling...just open questions. The Catholics as well believe we all pray to the same God just giving him different names. That inofitself seems very "wishy-washy." If one is able to be as zealous as the Catholics how can they accept and fold-into their faith (based upon location of the world) such as Dia De La Mortes. (Day of the Dead.) They honor their dead in some parts of the world as Catholics. At the end of the day if I was forced into a religion (growing up or for life) I may not have had a problem with it, but may have questioned parts of it.

I believe it's the openess of the Afghan people that drives me to seek an "acceptance." Typical example, in the Army (American) they preach about "false motivation is better then no motivation." So...if you accept such things and be lazy about it, what does that say about you as a person/ group/ organization. It says they don't want to enforce/ encourage you to have a real/true motivation but rather a false motivation so "everyone's on the same page" and to help each other's overly-sensitive fealings/ emotions. Feelings are a good thing since they reflect/mirror the heart, but, if you simply allow "false hearts" means you don't know the person and will in time either get/ expect a "suprise" if you ocntinue to think/monitor the situation.

The Afghans that we work with on this guard tower know me by name "bow-manh." It's a start. With my ability to learn the language the people may accept me if I learn Pashto over the next couple of years. Again, I do not want to take from the people a job, but I find an increasing motivation to become one of them. I will most certainly miss my Internet & Online Gaming/ chat but an interest in Islam and the Afghan people will continue my drive to maybe become one of them someday although I do not know how after I learn Pashto to apply to become a citizen of Afghanistan.

Let it be, if Allah's will.

Salamalaik,

Jesus, peace be upon him, is an esteemed prophet of Islam. He is one of the five major prophets, Noah, Ibrahim, Moses and Muhammad, peace be upon them. It was revealed to us in the Qur'an that opponents of Jesus failed at killing him, and it only appeared to them that they had crucified. Rather, Allah Almighty, raised Jesus to himself, and gave him a temporary death, (the death of sleep) and we firmly believe that he will return to slay the anti-christ, the dajjal. We believe in the miracles that he performed by the will of Allah. We strongly object to the christian belief that he was, auzubillah, "the son of God" or even a part of god. However, we do believe in his miraculous birth and hold his mother, maryam, peace be upon her on high esteem. We believe in all the same prophets that the jews and christains do. Because The Message of Allah was distorted severely, the final revelation, the Qur'an, was sent to Mohammad, peace be upon him. And he is the seal of Prophethood. Thus, if you read the original testaments, they will be congruent to what is taught to us in the Qur'an. We Muslims are practicing the original deen/religion that was chosen by Allah and sent to all the prophets in successive steps. If you have any questions in regards to this, feel free to ask us.

You wouldn't be the first foreigner to have come to Afghanistan, fallen in love with it's mountains and it's dwellers and decided to stay. Many of the Soviet's Red Army can still be found in Afghanistan. Those of them who have stayed, converted to Islam and married Afghan and become Afghan. Afghan is a state of mind more than anything, and you will probably notice that too. Don't feel guilty about taking someone else's job, Allah Raziq (Allah is the Sustainer).

Your still new to your tour. Majority of the members here know that the so called "war on terror" is a blatant lie. You've heard the saying "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". From your perspective, you think that the US is helping Afghanistan...but let's face reality...Americans in America are also in a desperate economic situation and need as much help...so why Afghanistan? From the perspective of the Afghans, it is NATO that is the real culprit and the real terrorists. No different than the Soviet's Red Army. Those soldiers, just like you, felt that they were "helping" the people. So don't try to defend the US's position here..you will just anger most. Don't form any opinion just yet...look and observe with an open mind, see what is happening. Is there real progress? After 10 years of US occupation, what is the big difference? Is Afghanistan reaching a peaceful resolution? Why and why not?

In any case... I'll look forward to your Journal entries.

[MDresden]

The ANA/ANP have been created to protect it's own people, how awesome/beautiful is that?

[ScimitarXEdge]

Beautifully said

You wouldn't be the first foreigner to have come to Afghanistan, fallen in love with it's mountains and it's dwellers and decided to stay. Many of the Soviet's Red Army can still be found in Afghanistan. Those of them who have stayed, converted to Islam and married Afghan and become Afghan. Afghan is a state of mind more than anything, and you will probably notice that too. Don't feel guilty about taking someone else's job, Allah Raziq (Allah is the Sustainer).

en chura ke besyar dostet darum baradar inshallah MSdresden fikr na kona ke mana dara ke maa bacha baz astaim

[ScimitarXEdge]

The ANA/ANP have been created to protect it's own people, how awesome/beautiful is that?

Not very because it's doing so based on imperial interests, not it's people.

[MDresden]

Believe me I mean no harm to any Afghan unless I first get shot at...I'm not here to occupy nor am I saying that the USA is here to occupy.

Please judge me for me...all my life I have been judged and labeled with each job...military..salesman...whatever.

[Alchemist]

The ANA/ANP have been created to protect it's own people, how awesome/beautiful is that?

protect its own people from it's own people...

beauty is in the eye of the behold they say...

[Nokia_Apridy]

hemmmmmmmmmmm

[MDresden]

protect its own people from it's own people...

beauty is in the eye of the behold they say...

But who attacks the ANA/ANP???? Certainly not USA/NATO?

[ScimitarXEdge]

But who attacks the ANA/ANP???? Certainly not USA/NATO?

ANP/ANA= proxies of NATO