We have seen what oppression looks like. It looks like the chaos of thousands of men, women, and children running into an airport in Afghanistan. As some run, they carry babies and small children.
We have seen what oppression looks like: It looks like the chaos of people trying to climb on the outside of planes, holding onto its wings or whatever they can grab hold of even when its speeding down the runway and taking off into the Afghan sky.
We have seen what oppression looks like. It looks like the chaos of women handing their babies across barbed wire and into the the arms of American soldiers. It looks like masses of desperate human beings jamming themselves into an airport waving thousands of passports that they believe will get them onto a plane, any plane going anywhere away from the chaos. Oppression looks like the fear on the faces of hundreds and hundreds more in hiding who know that men with guns to shoot and kill them are coming and men with blades to behead them are searching for them door to door.
But does the horrified observer know what they're running from and running to? Do those involved in the chaos have any idea what they're really running from and to?
When we dig deeply to the roots of the from and the to, a clear picture emerges. The thousands are fleeing an announcement by those taking over the country: "The guiding light of the Afghan rule will be Sharia." and Sharia is Islam's legal system, derived from the Quran.
So there it is: they're running from the imposition of the Quran as Islam's legal system. Let's shorten that to say that they're running from the Quran, but let's go further and ask the "to" question: what are they hanging on to planes and handing their babies over barbed wire to get to?
They are desperately trying to get to a country whose heritage is Bible-soaked. They couldn't articulate it, but that's what's been happening. They are running from the Quran to get to the Bible.
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