The Taliban's Society vs. Our Society.?

Question

Justice seems to be one of those "universal" values that Appiah argues is shared across cultures, but it is also one that is thin - something we all agree is good until, perhaps, we se what it means in practice.

My question is Does our (and their - the "TALIBAN") commitment to justice provide a sufficient ground for "conversation" from which we might come to a better understanding of the taliban and ourselves? Remember, we execute criminals too.

Answer 1

I am optimistic.
I think the Taliban are against US for thier own reason - mainly as US is a supporter of Israel and as outsider in Iraq. No person in the right frame of mind would like to become a terrorist. There are some very angry people there.
Forget about the Muslim religion, it is only a facade of the reality.
The US say the Muslims are radicals and agrressive.
The Muslims use religion to draw support from the people who share the same religion to over throw USA out of the Middle East.
It is the people of palastine (regardless of their religion) who are against the US.

The US people need to sort it out if these two acts are necessary for their well being as these two acts are the main creator of poor orphan children who become the terrorists.

Since the British Empire the people of ascendants of USA / British have tried to rob the people of every corner of the Earth.
India, Burma, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Japan (why kill 100,000 people when just blowing up any mountain will do the same job) Korea, Vietnam, Central America (why is Mexico ten times poorer than USA) , Palastine land was sold to the jews by the English People !, the break up of USSR, and now Iraq. Not to mention the exercise of Slavery towards the blacks and the chinese and then the killing of Martin Luther King. Lincoln and Kennedy were also killed !!! What kind of people kill their best leaders !!! Why can't USA just stay at home and do their thing???

So you see Taliban want to avenge their grannies.

I hope that time will bring sense to the God fearing American People who will overthrow their government who exercise such acts to gain wealth power and fame for themselves.
Let it be known to them that they will not be able to gain immortality through such powers.

Answer 2

Your question is your answer. You (and many others of us in this pluralistic culture) are willing to consider that the justice mores of the Taliban may have some value and might provide some point of commonality. Someone of the Taliban would reject that out of hand. If you are not of them, you are wrong and should be destroyed. Beautiful, ancient, enormous buddhist statues were destroyed in Afganistan because the Taliban couldn't see them as archeological, cultural artifacts worthy of study. They were not of Islam; therefore they must be destroyed. By the same token, I do not think the Taliban is at all representative of Islamic culture at all. Islamic culture enjoyed its greatest influence when it was most tolerant and cosmipolitan. Moorish Spain, with its tolerance of both Christians and Jews was one of the greatest flowerings of civilization.

Answer 3

No, there has to be common ground, and there is not. Their foundations are completely different.