After the fall of Afghanistan, is there hope?

Dave Burke  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Oct 2021
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After the fall of Afghanistan, is there hope?

Anguish and fear in Afghanistan photo: Hizb ut-Tahrir

About 300 yards from my house is the grave of an 18-year-old paratrooper killed in Helmand province.

I’ve never been convinced by the reasons given for our Afghan adventure, and why this young man was put in harm’s way by our government. We have now abandoned Afghanistan and we are left wondering if there is any hope for that country.

Hope is one of the Bible’s most vital ideas. In the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Hugo Gryn and his father made a candle of margarine to celebrate Chanukah. His dad said: ‘You and I have proved that is it possible to live for three weeks without food. We once lived almost three days without water. But you cannot live properly for three minutes without hope’!

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