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Originally Posted by MaDef
Since he is a U.S. citizen, He should be tried for treason, stripped of his citizenship, and hung. But that won't happen. It will be 3-4 years before He goes to trial and another 10-20 before he is executed if by some chance he is given the death penalty.
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Instead of people like him being called US citizens with an Afghan migration background, I tend to think of such people as - in this case - Afghans with US papers. In some way this changed wording ilustrates what it is about.
I disagree with those "pragmatic socialists" wanting to make people believe that nationality is only about a bureaucratic formality. The important point is biographically grown identity. And that cannot be switched from green to yellow just by putting a stamp onto some official papers. A stamp is just a stamp and a paper is just a paper. But felt identity and felt belief is somethign that breathes a life of its own, so to speak, and for Islamic people, if they really are that: truely Islamic, nationality is meaningless anyway, for what supercedes state order is Shariah anyway. That is something that many politicians and left sympathisers just do not want to understand, for it spoils their claim that all people are equal and principally the same.
They are not. The differences are immense. To reduce ethnic and cultural major differences to the level of profance bureaucratic formalities is a way to deny the existence of fundamental differences. But identity is not that arbitrary. It is the result of a biographic past. You can try to ignore the past. But it nevertheless makes itself felt.
And no, we are not all of the same "value". By far not. And there are quite some without whom the world man lives in would be much better off.