Counting the dead.

The director of a Norwegian peace research center criticizes the Norwegian Army for not being capable of giving numbers concerning how many Afghanistan’s have been killed by Norwegian soldiers. He claims that the soldiers should keep statistics over every person being killed, how it happened and to what extent the Norwegian soldiers were involved.
The Norwegian Army answers by saying that dead people a carried away quickly by the Taliban and that they do not want to enter into any competition concerning numbers with them. It also states that no civilians have been killed but continues saying that it is hard to know who is a civilian. Sometimes a civilian all of a sudden picks up a weapon and starts shooting.
Really….!!!!!
How come that it is so hard to understand that this is exactly what is happening in this part of the world.
I am amazed to see how this “ugly game of war” is being “played” by different rules depending on location. I have been following the news reports from Pakistan, Somalia and Afghanistan lately and see that thousands have been killed, many of them civilians. It is always described as the “good” fighting “the bad” and if the fighters are considered to be extreme Moslems the picture is clear.
What is not clear to me has to do with why extreme Moslems who’s aim is to conquer the entire world and to make sure that people live according to shariah laws are not seen as such if they happen to be Palestinians.
To believe that Hamas is fighting for the rights of the Palestinian people is a sour misunderstanding. Their aim is to convert every Palestinian to become a devoted Moslem practicing shariah and through that to join forces against Israel and to wipe out “the infidels” of the land.
If they should succeed in doing so the women will be the first to suffer. The ones who have started to enjoy the taste of the right to make up their own opinions and to express them are the next in line. This is what is going on in Gaza right now and what Hamas groups are trying to enforce on the people living in PA controlled areas in the so called West Bank.
Who will demonstrate in the cities of Europe and be a voice to those who are not allowed to speak up?
Who decided that one person’s life is more valuable than another?
Why does lives in Africa, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and other places count less than the lives of Palestinians?

Elin Elkouby