Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (1163) | Why did the Americans invade Afghanistan?
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
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Why did the Americans invade Afghanistan?
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The Americans invaded Afghanistan under the pretext of eradicating terrorism.
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And to take revenge on those who bombed the World Trade Center towers in the year 2001.
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And to empower women in Afghanistan to be liberated and grant them the opportunity for education.
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Yet, if they truly wanted to educate women, they would have provided the Taliban government with the funds for that.
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This would have been easier for them than the exorbitant cost of the invasion and the loss of many of their soldiers there.
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Wesley Clark, the commander of NATO forces, declared the true reason behind the invasion.
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He said, "Whoever thinks that we went to Afghanistan to take revenge for the events of September 11th,"
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"should correct his mistake; we went to ward off a greater danger, which is Islam."
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"We do not want Islam to remain a free project in which Muslims decide what Islam is."
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"Rather, we are the ones who decide for them what Islam is."
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It is regrettable that they have succeeded to a large extent in spreading their own concepts of Islam throughout the entire world.
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For they have divided it into political Islam, moderate Islam, extremist Islam, and so on.