The Taliban Holds The Message Of Islamic Brotherhood With Itself
20 January 2013
By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most
Merciful.
For a long period of time various circles are
trying to defame the Islamic Emirate by different ways
and to present dim and vague pictures of this
immaculate system. Sometime they blame that it is
against learning and education; sometime they say that
it is not in favor of women rights; sometime they
blame it for violating the human rights; sometime they
hold it responsible for not trying to promote the
inter-Afghan peace and harmony.
These and likewise other baseless accusations and
unsubstantiated blames are irresponsibly ascribed to
the Islamic Emirate by some selfish persons and
organizations as an integral part of the war launched
by the enemy. Nevertheless we have clarified our
position from time to time concerning all these
issues.
Nowadays a new series of the undue accusation has been
started. Some people print out menacing letters on the
fake pads of the Islamic Emirate, mark it with a
forged stamp and then ascribe it to a commander of the
Islamic Emirate as if that commander has given him
life threatening. Then they forward this letter to the
foreign governments to show them that their life is in
danger. This is the false propaganda exploited by some
people even during the reign of the Islamic Emirate
and thus deceived the foreigners just for the sake of
their personal interests.
Actually it is the ravaged economic conditions of the
country which have forced our helpless people to make
either bogus documents or sell their offspring or do
other likewise undue acts in the hope of reforming
their lives.
The invaders made a lot of hollow claims and exhausted
the media by these kinds of boasting and bragging that
they have come for the prosperity of Afghanistan and
have brought sacks of dollars with them. Now it has
been clarified to everyone that what kind of souvenir
they have brought to our country. They have not
brought anything else but adversity, destruction and
hatred. The sacks full of dollars which they brought
with themselves had either been spent by themselves or
their cronies or have been pulled out of Afghanistan.
Thus they paved the road for corruption and immorality
to sprout and then spread out to the extent that even
full fledge buildings constructed by their money have
vanished as admitted by themselves. The end result is
that the oppressed Afghan people are dying of severe
cold and hunger today. Women are tyrannized; infants
are killed in their cradles and numerous Afghans are
living under poverty line to the extent that even a
few kilometers away from Kabul palace, courageous
fathers and affectionate mothers sell their dear and
beloved little female children. The youth of the
nation make forged documents and are trying to go
abroad on very perilous ways.
The Islamic Emirate while strongly denying all these
allegations, once again declares that we have the
message of Islamic brotherhood with ourselves. We
respect all sects of our people. We do not have
threatening messages for anyone. The Islamic Emirate
has been established to wipe out the miseries and
adversities of the Afghan nation. It has been
resisting for the previous eleven years as Jihad
against the American invasion and has rendered a lot
of sacrifices. As it is the demand of our Muslim
nation, our all-inclusive holy Jihad will remain
uninterrupted Insha-Allah (God willing) till the
invasion is brought to an end and an environment of
peaceful life under the supervision of an Islamic
government is set up in our beloved homeland and it is
never hard for Allah Almighty.
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14 January 2013
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed
As soon as I heard the name Iyad Ag Ghaly in relation
to the events in Mali I began to wonder if this could
be the same man from the same country? Could it really
be him? Iyad Ag Ghaly heads up the military operations
of armed terrorist groups in northern Mali; whilst
there was a man with the same name who served as
Mali's consul in Jeddah. I called some friends and
confirmed that Iyad Ag Ghaly is indeed the same man
that I met at Jeddah's Hilton hotel less than three
years ago.
We are facing a truly strange world where those who
are legitimate today could be fugitives tomorrow.
At the time, I knew-from those who had dealt with
Ghaly as a Tuareg tribal chief and diplomatic
consul-that he was the best source to find
intermediaries to negotiate the release of hostages
taken in the Azawad region. Now, he is said to be
commander of the Ansar Dine movement fighting the
Malian army, as well as international French and
African forces.
When I read a profile about him in yesterday's Asharq
al-Awsat newspaper, I was even more confused, for this
stated that he was close to Libyan dictator Muammar
Qadhafi who reportedly sent him to fight in Lebanon.
Yet, Ghaly only recently displayed extremist
tendencies.
This kind of confusion and uncertainty has become
quite common as shown by the emergence of extremists
like Tarek al-Zomor and Mohamed al-Zawahiri on Egypt's
political scene. So how did a man like Iyad Ag Ghaly
turn from being a moderate Sunni Muslim to an
extremist armed fighter? Is it rational to suppose
that a man in his fifties, like Ghaly, should suddenly
become radicalized? This is truly hard to believe. I
sense that this may be some kind of political maneuver
where politicians have pretended to adopt extremist
ideologies in order to recruit impulsive youths. These
politicians provide these youth with funding under the
pretext of ?religious duty?, convincing them to
sacrifice their lives for a false cause in return for
a place in heaven! Since there is a general
international lack of will to fight anywhere in the
world, the French-alongside a few African states-will
fight this war on their own before realizing that
desert wars never end and withdraw. What makes matters
more complicated is that conflicts that involve
religious slogans and tribal powers can last for
decades without any side being defeated.
Our problem with those who are keen on fighting these
extremists, like the French today and the Americans
yesterday in Afghanistan and perhaps tomorrow in
Syria, is their inability to understand the
fundamental nature of the problem. These extremist
groups represent the smallest part of the equation;
rather the greatest and most important challenge is to
confront extremist ideologies. Had the West, as well
as the Arab countries involved and other relevant
parties invested their money and effort in fighting
extremist ideologies, this crisis might have come to
an end. Instead they spent billions of dollars on tens
of thousands of soldiers, advanced weaponry, and
combat drones managing to eliminate a number of Al
Qaeda's leaders; however Al Qaeda's ideology remains
the same and in fact continues to spread like a
disease. Most people find it easier to jump to easy
conclusions by laying the blame on one group or
another like Sunnis, Shi'ites, clerics, or even
religion as a whole; however all these groups were
present prior to this and were never a source of
trouble.
We are living in a different world in which political
powers are establishing and nourishing extremist
ideologies and generations. These politicians have the
project, the expertise, and the will to propagate such
extremist ideology and they are practically immune to
punishment because the wrong parties are always held
accountable. Who could have imagined that Mali would
become an international battlefield after Afghanistan?
The West is repeating the same mistake in Syria by
allowing it to fall prey to extremists who are
emotionally manipulate the general public under the
pretext that they are their only source of salvation
from the tyranny of the Assad regime. In reality, they
are the only faction active on the scene because
everybody else has left the arena.
Al
Rashed is the general manager of Al -Arabiya
television. He is also the former editor-in-chief of
Asharq Al- Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly
magazine, Al Majalla. He is also a senior Columnist in
the daily newspapers of Al Madina and Al Bilad. He is
a US post-graduate degree in mass communications. He
has been a guest on many TV current affairs programs.
He is currently based in Dubai.