Agneta Muhr

Afghanistan!! History, background and today. Our troops in the war. My daughter is a soldier, leaving soon for Afghanistan!!

Wednesday, 21. October 2009, 21:51:35

humanrights, Afghanistan, soldier, war, history, taliban, facts, democraty

Listen to what this girl says to you and the world!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Slx5ikCEU&feature=fvw
News - They say they will fight for ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESZF_Avmrg&feature=related
Some Afghan music and pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0lun6FJYE
The Afganistan Map
http://8sidor.lattlast.se/%5Cpub%5C7922%5Cafghanistan_karta.gif

Afghanistan Facts

Afghanistan is a state in south of Asia, and count as a part of Central Asia. The country has a lot if montaíns and no coastline.The mighty montainmassive called "Hindukush" meaning -stop India,goes thrue the whole country from north-east to the west border.10% of the area of this rough country is useful for farming.The fresh water is limited. The clima is like other countries with no coast warm summers and cold winters.It is a country where earthquakes are common. It is surrounded by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tadzjikistan in the north,China in the east. The name Afghanistan means " The land of the Afghans".
During the early ages it was called Ariana or Bactria.During the middle age the name Khorasan was used.
Afghanistan is a republic and was delceared índependent from The united Kingdom 1919 after many years of opression.It was controlled by the brittish impire the whoole century 1800. The nations constitution is from 1923.
It is a state that have suffered from war in all times of its history. And it is a long history.
In 1978 the Afghan communistparty got the power by weapons. The communistregim was cahllanged by Mujaheddin, wich was supported by the USA who armed and trained 35000 gerillasoldiers from the Mujaheddin.When the communistregim was near to surrender the Sovjetunion invaded Afghanistan and during the following ten years the country was suffering under the Afghan-Sovjet war.Sovjet retired in 1989.The inside war in Afghanistan created caos! In 1996 Taliban got the power supported by The USA and Pakistan.The new law of Sharia was a fact. We all knew about the actions the led to the war wich still goes on today. The terroristattacs on on the amarican ambassades in Kenya ans Tanzania, And the towers in NY. When taliban refused to give up Osama Bin Laden to The USA wich decleared war and the UN made sanctions against Afghanistan. Afghanistan was attaced by the USA 7/10-2001. And the Taliban was defeeted.But it is still strong and fights and will never give up. They are terrorising the Afghanistan people and the women and children are suffering. And so are everyone who not believe in the Sharialaws.
In the end of 2001 the there was a initiativ taken to the ISAF - International Security Assistance Force. This force is operating in Afganistan to keep peace,support the president Hamid Karzais gouvernment, keep the law and order, help rebuild the infrastructure of the country and defend human rights!
The country get a lot of economic support for reconstruction.

Today Taliban are controlling 10% of the country. Afghanistan is an extremly poor country.Warlords are terrorising all over.The Infrastructure is totally out of order. There are still a lot of landmines and splittermines left out in the area. The women of Afghanistan still have to wear burka and can not move free.They have to followed by a male relative outside the house.If they brake a law they will be punished.The only work allowed for women outside the home are healthcare.Less than 10% of the women can read and write. There are still Sharia...Girls still get married at age 12-15 years. The women have separate hospitals of very low standard.70 000 women dies every year in childbirth and coplication from it. Schools for girl are bombed by Taliban. For about 4 years ago 1 milj cildren in Afghanistan was attending school none of them girls, now with the work of the ISAF and help from outside 4 milj children goes to school and 35% of them are girls.The people who dedicate there service to Afganistan does a difference!!

Area - 647 500 sqaurekm

Capitol - Kabul 300.000.000 citizen

It is a Republic

President and leader of the gouvernment - Hamid Karazi

Declear as a free state from England 19/8-1919

31 056 997 Citizen in the republic

Value - Afgani

Official Language - Pashtu, dari

The citizen in groups are - Pashtunes,Tadzdjics,Uzbeker,Hazar,Turkmenieans....

28% Of the people can read and write the rest is analphabets

WY DO I WRITE THIS AND WY DO I CARE?????
BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE HUMANITY AND ALL HUMAN BEEINGS RIGHTS TO A DECENT LIFE IN EQUAL!!

AND BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER IS A SOLDIER, SOON LEAVING TO DO HER SERVICE IN AFGHANISTAN,
and I wanted to know wy!
I wanted to know what she where going to face down there and what difference she will make for humanity!
I am not saying I was happy and shouted yippie when she told me, and I am sure I am going to have a terrible time in six mounth until she is back, but I am sure she will make a difference!! All the soldiers and helporganizations will, even if it will take a long long time!

And I am so very proud of her!!! And of all who does there service to protect and develope democraty!! And stands up for human rights.
We all should!!
At least we all should be proud over our soldiers in Afghanistan and support them in every way we can! they are on a hard and important mission and they are risking there lives!!!!!!! For human rights and democraty!
There are many parants out there like me that will go to bed worried every night praying for there children, and some of us will never see them alive again!

Please remeber our soldiers and children in your praiers and remeber the Afghanistan people!!!

Support the helporganizatons so moore children can go to school and learn to read and write. Education is the key to defeet Taliban! People must be educated so they can read the holy books by themselves and see what thay really says!Education is FREEDOM!

I belive in God! I really do! And so does this human beeings!If we call him God, Allah or anything else does not matter! We have to show every human respect and all shall have the same rights some day! We must belive in that!

I do not believe in war! But, we have to defend human rights and democraty everyone of us! And it is sad that Taliban only understand the power of weapons!In the year of 2009 it should not be nessecery,but it is!

I wrote this for my fantastic daughter Sanna and the other soldiers from Sweden wich are leaving in Dec to do service in Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afganistan, May God be with you! And come home safe! We love you!

Here is some pictures of my Sanna in service. Please pray for her!

My daughter the Soldier

Sanna in front of the ambulance she will be driving in Afghanistan

Sanna and the rest of the crew in the ambulance

The swedish healthcare pluton

Sanna and her boyfriend Per who have done service three times, one in Africa and two in Afghanistan

Sanna and her sisters

If you want to read moore:
http://www.afghan-web.com/

And read the books of Khaled Husseini "Thousend shining suns" and "Fly dragon"
They will give you a fantastic picture of the Afghan people and culture!!

Just some photos froma trip to SwedenNow my daughter have landed in Marmal Afghanistan

Comments

kcsummer # 21. October 2009, 21:57

You should be proud of your daughter, we all should be, just as we should all care about her welfare and safety and the welfare and safety of all our troops "over there".

Agneta Muhr # 21. October 2009, 21:59

Thanks so much for your kind words and support!!It os importanat for us all!
I am very proud!
Bless you!

der Wandersmann # 21. October 2009, 23:15

My prayers are with you and Sanna, Agneta.

Agneta Muhr # 21. October 2009, 23:18

Thank you so much wandersman!!

lollymolly # 22. October 2009, 00:47

Agneta, the U.S. gets slammed constantly for the war we are in. Obama is sympathetic to the Sharia law and Islam, and is refusing to send more troops to Afghanistan. If he doesn't we will lose and freedom will be lost. We fight for freedom----freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom to be an individual. And I will always uphold that creed. Freedom has to be fought for. It doesn't come naturally because there are always those who want to have power over others.
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The Sharia Law is trying to be introduced into America. Do you know that Sharia law, as well as putting to death women who leave Islam and who commit adultery, allows a husband or father to have his daughters castrated---her clitoris surgically removed---supposedly so she won't feel sexual desire and be tempted to stray. That is evil on so many different levels I can't even speak to it.

No religion or peoples should be able to practice the laws that are practiced by these people. That is wrong in the eyes of everyone except the people who are practicing it.

I will pray for your daughter Sanna, as I also pray for my great nephew in Iraq. They both are doing a good thing; they both are in danger.

Sanna has my admiration and thank you for her part in fighting for freedom.

der Wandersmann # 22. October 2009, 02:41

Wish I could ride shotgun for your girl, though I suppose there's support in the platoon. I've done that, but maybe I've slowed down a mite, in the past few ... uh ... decades. (Blush!)

Norfrid # 22. October 2009, 06:44

I really admire your daughter and her boyfriend working for what they believe in. But I don't admire the Scandinavian countries that we partisipate in the war in Afganistan. I've read those two books and to read about the womens situation in that country can make you cry. Despite all this horror a young female writer from Afganistan wants the foreign soldiers out of her country, and she gives the reasons for it in her book. I have not read it yet, but I'm considering buying it. Here's a link to an article about this writer:
http://www.nationen.no/meninger/kommentar/article4651211.ece
And here in English:
http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/middle-east/77-middle-east/2343-the-big-lie-of-afghanistan-by-malalai-joya

dirk # 22. October 2009, 09:20

I really feel a deep respect for everyone working this way for that they believe in. each and every single one of them I include in my prayers and wishes ... besides the stupidity of war and what it does to people ... I've done this kind of job myself, caring for so called minefield children in Africa, Asia and Afghanistan ... in the 80's ... and I know haow it feels like ... I know how it feels like having the strong belief to do what it is the only right thing and I know what it feels like doing it ... then ... far away and hoping that someone at home will think about what you are doing under a different sky ... respect

Agneta Muhr # 22. October 2009, 09:38

Linda, I could not agree moore. The Sharia law is some of the most evil on this earth! It is the ultimate opression of women!And the coming generations of daughters and how much I fear and despice war between humans, when it comes to this I rest my case! Taliban do not understand the power of word or love,only weapons!
Afghanistan is a country where the whole population is ruled by the power of a few who keeps the majority in analphbetism.
The common people are in that postiton that thay have to trust the ones who are reading the koran for them.
And they way they do it is not what Allah ment, I am pretty sure about that! I have red it!
And shall not forget that our bible i 600 years older than the koran, thay are very alike!!And they do not pleed for war or kill! Or opression of women or people in common. Everyone is the same before God!
War in the name of religion is a shame!Does not matter if it is the old knigts in the middleage who fought islam or today when Taliban fight the chrstianity!
But war to give humans human rights, thats something else, even if I wish we could solve it in a peaceful way!

Norfrid, I can understand your point! But, when I made all the studies in this matter I have found out I support this case in history! I wanted to know what my daughter and all other soldiers where doing there and for what reason they where going to war! I wanted to have the knowledge to stand up for my daughter and the scandinavien troups!
We should be proud over our troups In Afghanistan and support them in all ways we can!
They are doing a fatnastic job togheter with the Afghanistan policeforce and military, they are there to support them and stand behind them when they are building up there country!
They make a great difference for the children and especielly the girls when it comes to education and healthcare!And for the women!They are fighting and supporting development and human rights!
The most of the civilians are very greatful and means that we are making a great great difference!
The military hospitals are helping many civilians and also take care of wounded talibansoldiers.
Never forget, This is for the human rights!!It makes a difference!The troups are there tp protect the peace and to support the civil population!

Wandersman, You have a great place in heart for your words!! I would be much moore calm and hopeful if you where there with her!!

Agneta Muhr # 22. October 2009, 09:39

Thank you Dirk!!!!!!
I may have to ventilate with you during her servicetime!! I am sur you will be a big support to me!! Thanks!!!

dirk # 22. October 2009, 10:10

my pleasure

Agneta Muhr # 22. October 2009, 13:12

Mette # 22. October 2009, 17:22

I would sit myself on top of her and never let go until she said she would not go!!!
I am sorry Agneta, but I do not agree on our kids going to war somewhere else in the world!
They are not trained as good as these soldiers think themselves!
All the mental health during their stay, the mental health after they return home, reactions that occur later in life.
I can not help it, we have had a few family members that has been traveling to different parts in Asia as soldiers. We do not like what we see.

der Wandersmann # 22. October 2009, 17:27

War is ugly.

Agneta Muhr # 22. October 2009, 21:04

Yes, war is ugly and cruel!! I will be first to agree to that and I think the humanity have not come so far as it should during centuries!!
But, I can not decide for my grown up kids! I do not have that right! No one have.... They make there own decsitions and I have tried to make my daughters to strong independent and rightthinking people and I think I have succeded!
Of course as a mother I have tried to talk her out of it, but still I am proud over her! Proud that she will do something for what she believes in!
And standing up for human rights, women and childrens rights and democraty can never be wrong in my eyes!
It can not be wrong to support the civilians in a country suffering from war and provide healhtcare and projects to educate women and children!
Our troups, the ones from Scandinavia, Finland, Germany, Usa,England are troups who operate under the Afghanistan military and policeforce as a support, helping to organize and rebuild this country. The plan is to make them independent and selvhelped. To build a democraty and give the people freedom and education.
I have red a lot about this country and I have been really interested and fascineted of the people and the culture.
If I had a opportunity I would go there myself as a nurse to try to make a difference, I might do that, I think about it a lot!And if I was younger I have not hasitated a minute!
Of course I am worried about all the things my daughter will see and be part of during her service, but they are welltrained, handpicked and have a great supporting crises team!I am not naiv, But I think they know what they do!

Mette # 22. October 2009, 21:21

I am sorry Agneta, I feel you are a kind of defensive now, and you are right to do that.
We have different opinions on the subject, so I will not go further in how I feel about this.
I am sorry.
I did not mean to upset you dear!!!

Agneta Muhr # 22. October 2009, 22:12

It is ok, I am not upset! And everyone have there own oppinion and thats what makes disusions interesting!
That whats blogforums are fore!
You always love your friends even if you do not agree in everything they say or do!!
Hugs to you my friend!!

antonietta # 23. October 2009, 13:11

This is a very serious and important debate, and for this I want to give my personal contribution. We, mothers, want the maximum good possible for our children. Sometimes this maximum intersects with a broader need: the welfare of the children of other mothers in other countries.
War exists because man has existed, and man is aggressive from the dawn of its birth.
During the thousand-year history, the man attacked another man only by necessity of its survival, but things have changed in recent decades,
When conflicts erupt between nations or between regions of the same nation, we can'nt conceal from ourselves that there are also economic reasons, or political reasons of political expediency, or reasons of territorial conflicts...
If we are asked for help, because we can manage refugee camps, or because we work in hospital camps , or we get in touch with the people and initiate friendly contact with them, if we do this, WE MUST DO THIS, ALWAYS and wherever request our humanitarian work and helping people.
In Afghanistan as in Bosnia, as in Congo, as in Brazil, sending the soldiers or the missionaries, with volunteers, or the ONLUS nonprofit....
We can not dwell in discussions or thoughts of moral or moralistic principles.
Because is'nt this what they are asked to us.
We must hope that our aid, our model of willingness to provide assistance, is the EXAMPLE to people in conflict, so they can understand that there is another way of life, another kind of freedom, so that they can find in themselves the power to change their lives and their condition.
Our soldiers who go to these countries, protect the civilian population, and sometimes, as in Afghanistan, also protect us who stay at home, and we can safely surf the web...
I am grateful to all these "

Sanna

" who represent us and as long as they are, I can hope for the future of humanity.
Forgive me, I've been so long

Agneta Muhr # 23. October 2009, 13:25

Thank you so much for you long and great words! I could not agree moore! It is simply oue duty to do whatever we can to help other humans! To get the human rights that we all have the right to!We all shoule read the UN definitions of what is the húman rights!
We here in our countries are near them human rights but there are so many who is not!
You are right, the people who do this gives us hope!!!
We must keep this disskusions open and alive and support them all we can!!

der Wandersmann # 23. October 2009, 14:35

War is ugly, but sometimes there is no choice. We cannot remain free while others are oppressed. We must answer their need, or we are slaves ourselves.

I really don't fancy riding on that vehicle with Sanna while being shot at by rude strangers, but I would do it, if asked, because it is the right thing to do.

Now you must excuse me while I go clean my rifle and revolver. LOL

Agneta Muhr # 23. October 2009, 20:00

Wandersman, you are the best!!!!

scott cumming # 24. October 2009, 04:16

that was wonderful. and very instructive. i am proud that your daughter wishes to serve like that. she is very brave.

Agneta Muhr # 24. October 2009, 05:02

Thank you so much!! She really is brave and we shall all be proud of all the soldiers that do there service to protect the human rights and the peace!!

MrLeffe # 24. October 2009, 19:44

You and Sanna are in my heart I am here. Our world is complicated. I have so so many thing I want to tell. But I just dont know how to begin. Sanna is a brave young girl. And you know I know.

Agneta Muhr # 24. October 2009, 20:03

Thanks Leffe! I know You know!! We will have many hours of talk during this month I think!

MrLeffe # 24. October 2009, 20:18

I am at all ears. Just by your side

Mette # 25. October 2009, 16:32

Thanks for signing in my book Agneta

Agneta Muhr # 25. October 2009, 16:37

sorry_e_e # 29. October 2009, 10:02

agneta

the thought of sending one of my young children into
the ugliest adult thing there is
namely war
would push me over the edge
you are brave and strong for standing by your daughter
as she pursues her belief to help those in need

may peace find us all

sorry

Agneta Muhr # 29. October 2009, 14:56

Thank you so much for you kind words! As i see it I have no choice, she is a grown up and have made hers! I have to support her, and I belive in fighting for human rights in all ways! But I sure wishes that we all could fight for it in a peaceful way!

As you said - May peace find us all!

Thank you!!

Zephirine # 4. November 2009, 21:28

I wish Sanna and the other soldiers all the best in their mission!! That's dangerous, of course, but people who are so brave to do these things have to be admired!!

Agneta Muhr # 5. November 2009, 09:13

Thanks Zephi!!!! She leaves in three weeks but she will come here to visit the week before!!
She have red all your wishes for her here and she really apricieate them!! She thanks you all and send you her greetings!

MrLeffe # 5. November 2009, 10:11

Also please give her a great big hug. I will give her one every day in my thought on her mission. Still she is in my mind the child on the westcoast fishing crabs. Now THAT was a long time ago

Agneta Muhr # 5. November 2009, 10:49

I will! I wonder waht she will be fishing now???

MrLeffe # 5. November 2009, 12:35

Yes not crabs. One day at the time

Mette # 6. November 2009, 08:52

Agneta, jeg går over til å skrive på mitt morsmål ettersom det er en del misforståelser ute og går.
Så nå håper jeg du dukker opp og kommenterer på svorsk eller svensk eller norsk eller hva du vil

MrLeffe # 6. November 2009, 12:12

I have read these comments so many times. I can not stay silent I have to make my comment in this. What Sanna is about to do, her mission, her fight for a better world. She has got my fully respect. Some years ago my daughter Ida went on her mission. To make a change among the poor of the poorest. The childern left in the street to die because of their handicap the girls being sold because there are too many girls in the family. There is no war with guns, bombs, flightrades. It is an other kind. She have got in her heart a few words she is bringing with her all the time.
I think these words are so important, so true, and as close we can get.
So here they are:
We can not help all people,but we can make a difference for some

I have been living in war and revolution. I have seen the fears. I have woken up in the middle of night with no security no safe place. Waiting for the worst. It can not be described.I stop here. I will be here.

Once more I do wish Sanna the very best in her mission.
This was coming form my heart

Agneta Muhr # 6. November 2009, 14:37

Thanks again Leffe!! it means a lot for me and Sanna! You know that!

And those words should everyone say to themselves every evning before they go to sleep and think about what they could do for others! You do not have to go on missions like this,
Work at soupkitchen for the homeless, have a fosterchild somewhere in the world, be a supportperson for drugadicts or young criminals,give a coin to some good organization there are so much everyone of us can do!!

Will you help the girls in Afganistan to get education there are several organaizations who are working there!Red Cross, Save the children are some!
And do not gorget doctors without borders!!

Arèir # 7. November 2009, 10:48

First of all, I request a correction in the facts of Kabul, the population is not 300.000.000 (3 billion) it is 2.5-3 million.

I must say, what Sanna is pursuing is admirable, scary and kind. War is, as previously said, ugly, very ugly. We all must remember that it is not only poor people suffering from the war, every soldier leaving for service in Afghanistan might not come back, it is the ugly truth, it has to be said, Because this is a serious matter, a serious war, war is never kind.

All soldiers coming home will have deep scars, inexplicable scars, we might not be able to understand what they are going through or have gone through. Everyday civilians in Afghanistan get hurt, some even killed. Most of them are innocent civilians. It is a very infected conflict.

Serving in Afghanistan is no different from what it was serving in Kosovo during the war. Our Swedish troupes were not the same when they came home, all had scary memories.

I think it is time to call of the war and send the troupes home. It is evidently not getting better.

All people have different dreams to pursue, it could be most anything.
I for one think that equality between man and woman is one of the most important subjects in human rights. The men has for some reason always been of more value than a woman. This is a very fact in Asia. Even the western world has experienced this but has been able to grow and see past this. Today man and woman are most often working side by side, as Equal.
I am working to increase the acceptance for disabled in India, 10 years ago there was no such thing. This year Intact Special School has approx 100 students from age 2 to 20. Intact Special School is the first known school for disabled children in India. It recently was given a great amount of money to pursue work habilitation for disabled teens, in hope for them to get a real job one day.

I do my work without weapons; I do it with love and care for those in need. It is still a kind of active war…a war between the rich and the poor, the tamils and the natives and the casts. Where I work in India people die every day because they cannot afford health care, food and clean water. They were born in the lowest of casts and are not of worth to any one. Because of poor conditions in this part, many children are born with disabilities (may also be a consequence of history with inbreeding). Many children are left out in the woods to die, or in temples and churches in case some one who can take care of them comes along. I know three children that have been rescued recently. They are now living in a care centre at Intact Special School.

What I am trying to say is, you don’t have to go to war to be in a war. You don’t have to go to war to make a difference.

We are both doing something admirable for world piece. I will keep You both in mind when Sanna leaves.

You cannot help everyone, but you can make a difference for some…

Agneta Muhr # 8. November 2009, 05:53

Hi Ida!
tanks for stopping by and thanks for your wishes!
You are a wise young woman and you have my deepest respect and admiration for your work!!
All who works in there believes to change the world and in any way fight for human rights, democraty and the aquality between men and women have!We can all do a difference for someone!!!!!!!!!

And it not so many years the women got there rights to vote here in Sweden and I think we still have some steps left to go in some ways!

Personaly I would not choose war to be the way to change the world, I think that the humans in 2009 should be wise enough to live in peace and respect for eachother, but.....
But, I support the ones who do this to make a difference!
I have my way,My daughter have hers and you have yours!
I hope veryone reading this will do something thr make a difference for someone!!!

by the way Ida, thanks for thr correction, I must have slpit on the buttons, one zero to much, i will fix it!

Hugs to you!

Arèir # 8. November 2009, 08:13

I agree, with you.

Mette # 27. November 2009, 19:51

I hope Sanna is safe and will have a good time too, not only sad things around.
Thanks Agneta for your comforting, warm and wonderful PMs!!!

Agneta Muhr # 27. November 2009, 22:14

Thats what friends are for!! I thínk she will have good times to!!

Love you!

Mette # 27. November 2009, 22:15

You are the best Agneta!
Love you too

with my heart full of gratitude