How Abdul Raziq shows us the ends don’t always justify the means
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
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Summary
The New York Times recently reported on thousands of suspected disappearances at the hands of Abdul Raziq, an Afgan general during the war on terror who they’ve rightfully dubbed “America’s monster.” While they claim that Raziq was empowered to expedite the war, as Christians, we need to remember that God will never call us to walk down a path he can’t bless. To him, the means matter just as much as the ends.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May the 24th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins |
| 0:07.7 | with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:13.5 | When Abdul Razik Akkzai, the former police chief of Kandahar and a general in the Afghan army, |
| 0:20.1 | was killed by Taliban back in 2018. The immediate |
| 0:23.6 | response from most Americans was concerned over how his death would impact the war in Afghanistan. |
| 0:29.0 | While there were whispers and allegations of corruption, murder, and violent oppression, |
| 0:33.7 | Abdul Razik's role in the war on terror took precedence at the time. Over the years since, however, more has come to light about the atrocities Razik committed while in power. |
| 0:43.3 | In a recent profile in the New York Times, Azam Ahmed and Matthew Aikens combed through more than 50,000 written complaints, |
| 0:52.3 | detailing almost 2200 cases of suspected disappearances and had |
| 0:56.8 | countless conversations with families of those victimized by Razik. Their report provides a |
| 1:02.6 | damning indictment of how American leaders on both sides of the political aisle approached the |
| 1:07.9 | war in Afghanistan and leaves little doubt that they were right to call |
| 1:11.6 | Razik America's monster. And their findings, particularly as they pertain to the justification |
| 1:17.0 | from American leaders, should serve as a powerful warning for each of us today. The story from |
| 1:22.1 | Ahmed and Akins is worth reading in full as the details that follow will not do justice to the scope of their reporting. |
| 1:29.3 | For now, here are the key details of their report. |
| 1:33.0 | Abdul Razit grew up as a member of the Akkai tribe near the border with Pakistan. |
| 1:38.1 | As a child, his father was killed by the Norseye tribe, many of whom would later support the Taliban. |
| 1:44.0 | During a later war, the Taliban killed his uncle and hung his body from a barrel of a tank. |
| 1:49.0 | As a result, when the U.S. invasion began in 2001, Razik's allegiances were clear. |
| 1:55.0 | By 2010, Razik had earned a reputation as a fierce and effective fighter and one of the few to consistently |
| 2:02.7 | win against the Taliban. When the police chief of Kandahar was assassinated in 2011, Razik took |
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